St. David of Wales
Episcopal Church
EMBODIED WITNESS
As a people drawn into community through Word and Sacrament, we recognize that our faith carries a social dimension. When asked what the most important commandment was, Jesus offered a twofold answer: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself (Matt. 22:36-40). Twice St. Paul says that all of the commandments are summed up in the command to "love your neighbor as yourself" (Rom. 13:9-10, Gal. 5:14). Being Christian requires that we acknowledge that God entrusts us with a social responsibility to love and care for our neighbors—those who look, pray, and behave like us and those who do not (Luke 10:35-37).
Our parish supports the following initiatives and organizations:
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St. David's DovePax
St. David's Outreach Committee began a prayerful process in the Fall of 2024 to discern where God was calling us to better serve our neighbors. Having just completed our new church building, we knew that our parish was capable of doing big things together and believed that momentum was best directed outward into our community. So, we interviewed over a dozen teachers, doctors, counselors first responders, business leaders, and elected officials in the city to understand where they felt the biggest needs were in Denton. We also surveyed our congregation to know what sort of initiatives our people were passionate about supporting.
Through the process, it was clear that
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Almost every community leader we interviewed mentioned the void the void that Lovepacs left when it shut down its operation in Denton in May 2025.
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St. David's DovePax ministry is led and funded by St. David's. We do not have any connection to the regional Lovepacks organization that closed it's Denton location in May 2025.
Snack Packs
In 2013, our men's ministry noticed that many of the organizations that feed and care for Denton's unhoused population were closed on Sundays, leaving a gap we believed God was calling us to step in and fill. Since that time, we have assembled and distributed over 20,000 packs of food, hygiene essentials, and undergarments to people experiencing homelessness in our city. Parishioners distribute Snack Packs downtown after our 10:30 am service each Sunday.
The Kellermann Foundation
Founded in 2004 by California-based physician Dr. Scott Kellermann, the Kellermann Foundation provides high quality health care to displaced ​Batwa pygmies in southwest Uganda. St. David's partners with Kellermann to provide full tuition scholarships for young women to study at the Uganda Nursing School Bwindi.