St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

Parish Life Gallery

Small church, big joy, well documented. Scenes from the life we share.

A parish is its people, and these are ours: processions and egg hunts, choirs and coffee hours, blessed dogs and balloon games, candlelight and confirmation Sundays. Most weeks somebody has a camera out, and the best of what they catch lands here. Many more photos live on our Facebook page, where the albums go back years.

May 31, 2026

An outdoor Eucharist and picnic with our friends from St. Mark's in Birmingham, where Father Quincy also serves as priest in charge. Two parishes, one altar, and a long lunch under the trees.

  • Father Quincy sits on the pine straw with children gathered in a circle while the congregation watches from folding chairs
    The children's sermon, down on the pine straw
  • An outdoor altar dressed in white and flanked by sunflowers, with Father Quincy seated on the ground teaching the children
    An altar among the pines
  • Parishioners share lunch at long picnic tables with red checked cloths at the edge of the woods
    Two parishes, one table
  • A full picnic table of parishioners of all ages passing plates under the trees
    The feast after the feast
  • Families eating at picnic tables scattered across the grass beneath tall trees, with a playground behind
    Lunch under the pines
  • Children and adults around a flowered picnic table crowded with cups, snacks, and a yellow Alleluia songbook
    Alleluia, and pass the chips
  • Older parishioners share lunch at a red checked table by the picket fence, one of them seated in a wheelchair
    Old friends, long table
  • Father Quincy laughs into the camera in a sunny selfie with three smiling parishioners behind him
    Father Quincy, in front of the camera for once
  • Families and children holding palm fronds and wearing palm crosses outdoors on Palm Sunday
    Palm Sunday
  • A bagpiper in a kilt leads the Palm Sunday procession beside a crucifer carrying the processional cross
    The bagpiper leads the Palm Sunday procession
  • A reader and a crucifer in a white alb with the processional cross pause outside a neighboring church during the Palm Sunday procession
    The procession pauses downtown
  • A priest in a white surplice and red stole smiles in the sunlight during the outdoor Palm Sunday liturgy
    Palm Sunday sunshine
  • A girl in a pink dress holds a basket full of colorful Easter eggs in front of the church's brick wall
    The Easter egg hunt
  • Children with Easter baskets burst out of the red church doors into the sunlight
    Out the red doors and into the hunt
  • A girl with an Easter basket searches a tree by the brick wall, where a purple egg is tucked in the branches
    Some eggs hide higher than others
  • Two friends in matching coral pants, one in a bow tie and one in clericals, smile by the Easter lilies at the chancel steps
    Easter Sunday
  • The bishop in a purple clergy shirt poses with newly confirmed adults wearing palm crosses in front of the chancel
    Confirmation day with the bishop
  • Communion at the outdoor Mass on the Grass service, with a black dog seated among the congregation
    Mass on the Grass
  • Families, clergy, two dogs, and a painted dog portrait gathered in the nave after the Blessing of the Animals
    Blessing of the Animals
  • Children seated on folding chairs reading their Children's Chapel bulletins
    Children's Chapel
  • Children hold painted paper-plate masks over their faces during a Children's Chapel lesson
    Acting out the story
  • A child lifts an olive branch while others hold handmade masks during Children's Chapel drama time
    Props and parables
  • A smiling child in a headscarf costume stands among the dress-up clothes during Children's Chapel
    Dressed for the part
  • A delighted boy reaches for a red balloon in the parish hall while two friends look on
    Red balloons for Pentecost
  • A folk ensemble with guitars and singers performs at the chancel steps before a full nave
    Music night in the nave
  • A smiling musician and a boy in a bow tie take a selfie in front of the pipe organ
    Future organist in training
  • A mother and her two sons dressed up outside a concert hall
    Our organist and her sons, concert night
  • Parishioners with a young singer in his tuxedo backstage by the music office
    Cheering on our own
  • A smiling group of parishioners and clergy gathered for a group photo at a church event
    The St. Andrew's family, assembled
  • The darkened chancel lit by a single tall candle, with small candles glowing along the altar rail
    Candlelight in the chancel

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