St. Timothy's Episcopal Church

God is at work transforming lives at St. Timothy’s! We have been involved in the Winston-Salem Overflow Shelters through City with Dwellings since they opened on December 1, 2013, with the Blessing of Shelters. By February of that year, the two downtown locations at Augsburg Lutheran and First Baptist Church were overflowing with guests, so St. Timothy’s opened a new shelter location in Drake Hall on Friday, February 14. This has been an exciting time for everyone at St.Timothy’s as our parish lives into incarnational ministry with our homeless neighbors as we strive to live out our baptismal covenants through our adoration, formation, and transformation as the Body of Christ.

From December 1 – March 31, our shelter remains open and nightly welcomes women and couples into our warm and safe space. We provide them with a hot meal and care bags of basic necessities (toothbrushes, etc.), a cushy mat, and often times a bagged lunch.

This is incarnational ministry at it’s best–when we care for God’s people all around us. It’s opening our doors and hearts and welcoming in the most unlikely of guests. It is letting down our guard and our expectations and seeing Christ’s love in a new light when we place ourselves “with” people and in places we would not otherwise find ourselves. Incarnational ministry is at its very core relational—seeing the image of God in each and every soul we encounter. We are learning from our homeless guests that when we step out of what we know and embrace all people as children of God worthy of our time and our relationship—we can better grasp the love of Jesus Christ.

The Abraham Project (TAP) is an Episcopal Service Corp (ESC) program that welcomed its first group of young adults in the summer of 2011 and is now in its fourth year of operation. The program places interns at local non-profit agencies where they work part-time; they live in intentional Christian community and participate in the worship and ministry life of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church.

The name of our program is inspired by the scripture in Genesis where God called Abram to leave everything and everyone he knows to follow Him. Abram had to trust God completely through his journey. This journey is so transforming that in the end Abram becomes Abraham. It is our hope that those who make up TAP will, like Abraham, trust in God, in themselves, and in us; we hope that through this experience interns will grow and flourish into who God is calling them to be.

TAP participants live in intentional community with one another in provided housing and share a food allowance. Interns also receive a simple monthly stipend as well as health insurance. Interns arrive in August and begin work in the local agencies soon after their arrival. Time is also dedicated to personal discernment as well as being in communion with the larger congregation at St. Timothy?s Episcopal Church. The TAP year begins in late-August and lasts until mid-June each year.

We offer many adult formation opportunities including:

• Small Groups (a variety, including a young adult small group)
• Sunday Morning Adult Formation
• Wednesday Night Adult Formation
• ECW
• DOK
• Men's Group
• "Sinner's Dinners" 
• EfM

Visit our website to learn more. 

Children and Youth programs and formation is offered on Sundays and Wednesdays. 

Children are taught using Godly Play on Sundays and are doing "Manna and Mercy" on Wednesdays. There is also a vibrant and large children's choir that rehearses regularly on Wednesdays. 

Youth do a lectionary based Bible Study on Sundays and Wednesday programs vary. The Youth choir rehearses on Wednesday nights. We also have several social outings and a yearly summer mission trip. 

Visit our website for more information. 

St. Timothy’s was awarded a grant in 2013 by the North Carolina Council of Churches to start our community garden! It has been a wonderful inter-generational activity – older members have shared expertise in gardening and helped us plan the plots, the youth group built the raised beds, one of our Abraham Project interns helped us secure the seeds, and the children started the seeds and help harvest. The garden was planted to encourage healthy eating and living in our congregation, to illumine scriptures about planting and harvesting for a better understanding, and to donate and share with our unhoused neighbors in Miller Park.

In 2014, St. Timothy’s developed a strong relationship with Anthony’s Plot, a ministry in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Winston Salem. We now donate our produce to their weekly neighborhood meals and their 5th Street Gatherings, a monthly meal given to the unhoused guests of Winston Salem.

Our garden has grown! We’ve added two more beds, several large pots for tomatoes, and a big bean stand! We also have a Little Free Library and a playground nearby. We are so blessed to have such a big plot of land with 9 hours of sunshine a day. Please come bring a lunch, sit at our picnic tables, and enjoy God’s great creation.

If you want to feel the pulse of St. Timothy’s, come on a Wednesday night. On Wednesday nights, we come together as a parish community, all ages and generations, to share a meal together and participate together in various formation (class) offerings. Many members are able to come both on Sundays and Wednesdays, so they immerse themselves in the St. Tim’s community twice a week for extended fellowship and formation. There is something about that extra time here that grows and stretches us as a community, binding us together and teaching us to see the love and light of Christ in each other. We are not a community of like-minded people who are just naturally attracted to each other, but we are given to each other in Jesus and we are called to accept each other as we are. Wednesday Nights give us the best opportunity to live out that call.

There is something for everyone of every age at Wednesday Nights Formation. By coming together regularly midweek, we can focus on being a strong inter-generational community of believers. It allows our focus on Sundays not to be on a “coffee hour,”  but on the corporate adoration of our Triune God.

St. Timothy’s is unique in that we offer a High Mass every Sunday at 11am. This mass is characterized by ancient ceremonial, liberal use of incense, chant, and movement that emphasizes the mystery of God and the beatific vision of heaven. 

Visit our website to see videos from mass and learn more about our unique service.