Ever since 1887, people have come to this location on Magnolia Avenue to give thanks to God, to gather for fellowship, study, and prayer, and to seek and serve Christ in all persons. For one hundred years the Episcopal Church has been at the busiest corner in Auburn, at the entrance of the gates connecting the university and the city. She still speaks to both.
And at that busy corner is the entrance to St. Dunstan’s. For one hundred years people have entered from the city into the church for rest, to pray, to mourn, and to celebrate. Those steps have seen a lot of people looking to St. Dunstan’s to speak words which comfort and words which challenge. And those steps lead both ways, people have filed out of the church into the city to do the work of our baptismal covenant: to proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ, to seek and serve all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself, an to strive for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being.
Those steps mean as much as the building because that’s where the people come to hear the Good News, and where they go out to do the work they’ve been given to do. It is the entrance at the busiest corner in Auburn, and God still speaks.
We are celebrating of our life as both Holy Innocents and St. Dunstan’s, as a parish and a student center. We hope you will celebrate with us, remembering those who called both Holy Innocents and St. Dunstan’s their church home. We hope you will celebrate our voice at the busiest corner in Auburn, a sacred space for God to speak at the entrance to the university and the city. We invite you to share our heritage and preserve our legacy.
The steps at Holy Innocents/St. Dunstan’s haven’t changed in one hundred years. They are still there as an entrance to speak to the city. We invite you to enter in to listen, to give thanks, and to share for our second century.
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church 