St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church
St. Matthew’s in Newton, Kansas was established April 26, 1876, organized by a few Episcopalians and others committed to sacramental worship. From its founding St. Matthew’s has preserved, evolved, and flourished as they worked for the “furtherance of Christ’s Kingdom.”
Today, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church continues to be affiliated with Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, as part of the worldwide Anglican Communion and one of among 44 parishes in the Episcopal Dioceses of Kansa. We are a faithful small church seeking to love God and others. We hope you will join us as we work together for the “furtherance of God’s Kingdom.”
The mission of the church, as stated in the Book of Common Prayer’s catechism (p. 855), is “to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.”
As part of that mission, we’re following Jesus into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, with each other and with the earth as the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement. We seek every day to love God with our whole heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40).
For the Episcopal Church, the Jesus Movement calls us to focus on three specific Priorities:
EVANGELISM: Listen for Jesus’ movement in our lives and in the world. Give thanks. Proclaim and celebrate it! Invite the Spirit to do the rest.
RECONCILIATION: Embody the loving, liberating, life-giving way of Jesus with each other.
CREATION CARE: Encounter and honor the face of God in creation.
Vestry Members
The Rev. Richard Osborne, Interim Priest
Dr. Rick Glover, Sr. Warden January 2020-Janaury 2023
Stephanie Miller January 2020-January 2023
Maggie Snow, Jr. Warden January 2021-January 2024
Mary Upton January 2021-January 2024
Charlie Craig January 2022-January 2025
Vestry Appointees
Treasurer Maggie Snow
Clerk Elizabeth Hill
Music, Buildings & Grounds Jerry Wall