Events & Ministries
🎶 Jazz & Joe
Join us on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM for Jazz & Joe! The event is open to the public — there will be coffee, treats, and great music. A free-will offering is appreciated, but more than anything, we’d just love to welcome you!
🦃 Thanksgiving Eve Dinner
On Wednesday, November 26, we’ll host an open-door Thanksgiving Eve Dinner — a community meal for anyone in the area seeking food or fellowship. No RSVP required; all are welcome at the table. To-go boxes will also be available. The tentative time is 3:00–5:00 PM, with the sanctuary open beforehand to welcome guests. Thank you to all our donors and volunteers who make this possible!
☕ Coffee Hour
Join us every first Sunday (except November 2, 2025) after worship for coffee, snacks, and fellowship in the parish hall. This informal time of conversation and connection helps us deepen community and welcome newcomers. Volunteers are always appreciated to bring treats or assist with setup and cleanup.
🥗 Senior Luncheon
Our monthly Senior Luncheon offers a warm meal and good company for long-time members and friends of the parish. While currently invitation-only due to space constraints, we look forward to welcoming our regulars back on a monthly basis and will keep folks informed about openings as they become available.
🍞 Supper
The Church of St. Alban’s Community Supper is a monthly evening meal open to all, offered in the spirit of fellowship and care. Though currently on hiatus, this ministry reflects our call to feed both body and spirit and will return as resources allow. If you’d like to contribute your time, talents, or treasures to bringing this ministry back to life, please contact us at info@stalbanrox.org.
Why Do We Do What We Do?
Why Serve Others?
In Christ Jesus, God came to dwell among us. The One who created all that is, was, and ever will be chose to become part of Creation — fully human while remaining fully divine — sharing life on our level.
His life was not one of royal privilege but of humble origins, the son of a carpenter in an occupied land. Jesus knew hunger, poverty, fear, and need; he also knew companionship, laughter, love, and community.
His ministry taught compassion, peace, and love of neighbor, and revealed what it means to surrender completely to the will of God.
As Christians, we are called to imitate our Savior, Christ Jesus, who shows us that whenever we encounter a person in need, we encounter Christ himself. Matthew 25:35–40 .
Why Food and Hospitality?
From the beginning, followers of Jesus expressed their faith not only in words or worship, but through shared tables. Meals were where early Christians practiced what they believed — equality, generosity, and the breaking down of barriers between people. In gathering for food, they remembered how Jesus welcomed strangers, healed the outcast, and ate with those others refused to invite.
When the Church shares a meal — whether a cup of coffee after worship, a monthly luncheon, or an open table at Thanksgiving — we continue that same pattern of life. Hospitality becomes a living sign of God’s kingdom: a table where the hungry are fed, the lonely are known, and every guest is received as Christ himself.
Food and fellowship are not side projects of the Church; they are how we make visible the grace we proclaim. Every act of welcome, every shared meal, echoes the first communities who discovered that Christ is known in the breaking of bread.