St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Dunwoody, Georgia

Ministries – Welcome

For information on how to get involved, please call the church office at 770-455-6523

Anchor Place Respite

Anchor Place is a community-supported ministry of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church for people living with dementia and their carepartners. Our mission is to provide social, emotional, and spiritual support for older adults living with memory loss and other cognitive impairments, ease the challenges of caregiving, and address the epidemic of loneliness through innovative, caring programming.

Building and Grounds

St. Patrick’s Building and Grounds Committee is organized to help care for our physical building. The Committee is led by the Junior Warden with help and support from Parish representatives.

The Committee has three core areas:

  • Building (Exterior)
  • Building (Interior)
  • Gardens and Landscaping

This ministry oversees recommendations for improvements and new projects and prioritizes their completion, conducts planning studies for longer-range building needs and grounds improvements,  and hosts Spring and Fall Parish Work Days to engage the full parish in maintaining and improving our house of worship. This ministry literally keeps the roof over our heads and doors of our church open!  We welcome requests for the facilities’ improvement, and helping hands to make those improvements.  No experience needed.

Garden Club

The Garden Club is focused on delivering a welcoming and peaceful inner Courtyard, as well as producing the Garden of Eatin’ to feed the community.  Anyone can participate in this ministry!  Do you like to dig in the dirt?  Have you ever pulled a weed?  Do you like to spray water from a hose?  Are you handy with clippers?  Join the Garden Club!  No, you don’t get to operate heavy machinery, but if you can operate a hand trowel, a rake, or a shovel, you are more than qualified!  We contribute as our schedules permit, and usually have 2 – 3 gardening events per year to keep up with the seasons.

Malachi’s Storehouse

Malachi’s Storehouse is an emergency food pantry located at St. Patrick’s, dedicated to addressing food insecurity in metro Atlanta by providing both groceries and a hot meal for those in need of emergency support.

Malachi’s is open every Wednesday, with the exception of Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks, from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. Free groceries, clothing and baby supplies are available for low-income families in our community. Donation hours are Tuesdays 8:00 – 11:00 am and 4:00 – 6:00 pm or Sundays 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. Follow this link to the Malachi’s Storehouse website.

Neighborhood Faith In Action (NFA)

Our mission is to speak out to policy makers as advocates for compassion and justice in political, social, economic and environmental issues. We feel compelled by our faith to actively bring our concerns to bear on public officials because that is our primary way of influencing who we shall be as a people before God.

What do we do? First and foremost, we vote and strive to help others to do the same. We keep ourselves informed by collaboratively bringing attention to unjust issues by regularly communicating through:

  • Guest speakers
  • Focus group meetings
  • Electronic newsletters that notify citizens of opportunities to be vocal via mailings, community meetings, legislative action, etc.

Whom do we serve? We seek to serve those in need of a voice and the community at large. Currently we are giving particular focus to 6 areas of concern:

  • Voting rights
  • Racial reconciliation
  • Immigration
  • Gun safety
  • Climate
  • Sex trafficking