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We believe the Holy Spirit draws all God's people to Christ and equips believers for personal growth and service to the church. The church’s role is to glorify God and serve those in need.
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We believe the Holy Spirit draws all God's people to Christ and equips believers for personal growth and service to the church. The church’s role is to glorify God and serve those in need. At the The Episcopal Church of Grace and Resurrection we welcome you to our family bring you talents and time to be fellowships other likeminded believeers.
OUR HISTORY - Grace Episcopal Church
1907
A group of Episcopalians in a private home started what was later called Grace Episcopal Church
1912
1943
The Rev. Arthur G. Roberts served Grace Church from 1912 until November 1941
Grace Episcopal Church was consecrated on November 28th 1943 by Bishop DeWolfe
1956
1968
1969
1999
The first Rector, the Rev. Robert A Brown was installed
The second Rector of Grace the Rev. William Russell was installed
The third Rector of Grace the Rev. William Howard Melish was installed
The Reverend Canon Leopold C. Baynes was installed and served until retirement on May 28th 2015. He was the first Black Rector to serve at Grace Church.
2015
Grace Episcopal Church held its last service on May 31th 2015. It was deconsecrated on December 7th 2015 at a service officiated by The Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano.
OUR HISTORY - Resurrection Episcopal Church
1923
1930
1940
1952
1957
1962
1963
1969
1970
1986
1999
2012
The Reverend Adolphus Nero, obtained permission from the Reverend Arthur Roberts of Grace Episcopal Church in Corona to celebrate a 6:00 AM Mass on Easter Sunday
This small group of Christians first rented a basement, then a storefront, and later with financial assistance from the Diocese, graduated to a two story building on 32nd Ave near 104th Street in East Elmhurst.
The Reverend Ebenezer Holman, formerly of St. Cyprians, Hampton, Virginia, became Vicar of the Resurrection
Membership at Resurrection increased so rapidly that in the early 1940s a decision was made to acquire a new site.
Father Hamilton accompanied by Bishop DeWolfe led some 300 members into their new spiritual home at the corner of 101st St and 32nd Ave
Bishop DeWolfe appointed The Reverend Harold Louis Wright, who was a deacon and a recent Seminary graduate. He was ordained later that year as a vicar,.
E. Carlton Nurse was elected as the first warden, and held the post until 1964 when William Watson took up the mantle
Reverend John Graham Murdock, was ordained at Resurrection. In the same year, the fiscal report showed Resurrection had a membership of 783, a school enrollment of 175 pupils, served by a staff of 20 teachers, under the supervision of Ernest Gillespie.
Reverend Harold Louis Wright resigned his post at Resurrection. Shortly thereafter, Father Wright was consecrated the first African-American Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of the Diocese of New York
The Reverend Canon Kenneth E. McDonald became the second Rector of the Church of the Resurrection
Reverend Dr. Alvin E. Robinson was elected the Third Rector
Reverend Pierre-Andre served as Fourth Rector
The Reverend Canon Leopold C. Baynes and The Reverend Patrick Holdkamp served as interim priests until The Reverent Gilberto A Hinds was appointed in June 2015