Tag: ministry

Bill Jennings, President of the College Park Historical Society at the Orlando Public Library, October 25, 2023. Photo by Orange County Library System Staff Photographer Amanda Murphy. College Park has produced a lot of great people. I was in a meetin ... Read more

ABOVE image: December 18, 1966 photo of Confirmation Mass at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. When Ormund Powers was asked to oversee the  Fresh Start Program of the Christian Service Center he said that he would and did. He and his wife, ... Read more

ABOVE: Deaconess Lillian Lancaster in the sanctuary of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church in downtown Orlando, August 16, 2012. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church Presentation to the Historic Preservation Board, City of Or ... Read more

"However you can volunteer to help someone enriches your life and makes it better," Mary Jane Sevick shares in this excerpt from an oral history interview at St. James Cathedral on August 15, 2011.  She and her husband, Frank Sevick, reflect on the oppor ... Read more

Article from Jubilee, the St. James Cathedral parish newsletter, February 1996, documenting the historic transition to include female altar servers at the cathedral.  On October 27th, 1995 the first female altar servers at Saint James Cathedral were inve ... Read more