Today the Episcopal Church honors and remembers a pioneer, William Hobart Hare. He was born in 1838 at Princeton, N. J., and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He preached in Philadelphia until 1870, was for three years the general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions, and in 1872 was elected Missionary Bishop of Niobrara. He came to Yankton, Dakota Territory in 1873 and his diocese in 1883 was extended to include all of the Dakota Territory. He wrote several pamphlets on missionary work in the West.
He was one of the leading missionaries in America and was called “the Apostle of the West” for his dedicated work in the rural Dakotas among pioneers and Native Americans. He died in 1909.
Let us pray: Holy God, you called your servant William Hobart Hare to bear witness to you throughout the vast reaches of the Niobrara Territory, bearing the means of grace and the hope of glory to the peoples of the Plains: We give you thanks for the devotion of those who received the Good News gladly, and for the faithfulness of the generations who have succeeded them. Strengthen us with your Holy Spirit that we may walk in their footsteps and lead many to faith in Jesus Christ, in whom the living and the dead are one; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS
We will celebrate our graduates this Sunday, 22 May at the 9 a.m. service.
It is time for a brief Bishop’s Committee Meeting! Since the Children’s Choir from memorial Baptist Church graced us with their music on our regular Sunday for Bishop’s Committee meetings, let’s have one this Sunday.
Please remember everyone on our Prayer List especially Pat Tate and the Furlongs.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
He was one of the leading missionaries in America and was called “the Apostle of the West” for his dedicated work in the rural Dakotas among pioneers and Native Americans. He died in 1909.
Let us pray: Holy God, you called your servant William Hobart Hare to bear witness to you throughout the vast reaches of the Niobrara Territory, bearing the means of grace and the hope of glory to the peoples of the Plains: We give you thanks for the devotion of those who received the Good News gladly, and for the faithfulness of the generations who have succeeded them. Strengthen us with your Holy Spirit that we may walk in their footsteps and lead many to faith in Jesus Christ, in whom the living and the dead are one; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS
We will celebrate our graduates this Sunday, 22 May at the 9 a.m. service.
It is time for a brief Bishop’s Committee Meeting! Since the Children’s Choir from memorial Baptist Church graced us with their music on our regular Sunday for Bishop’s Committee meetings, let’s have one this Sunday.
Please remember everyone on our Prayer List especially Pat Tate and the Furlongs.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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