Finding a church home is challenging. You want a place where you can be yourself, where you can bring your doubts, questions, and concerns, where you can be inspired and uplifted, and where you can find a greater purpose. Hickory Neck Episcopal Church does that and so much more. After you’ve taken some time to get to know us through our website, I hope you’ll come and meet us in person. You are welcome here!

The Very Reverend Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly

What should I expect?

We want you to come just as you are. When you walk through our doors you may see people in suits and ties, but you will also see people in jeans and t-shirts. We want to make sure when you visit you are comfortable and that is all that matters to us. As long you come through our doors, we want to make sure you feel loved and welcomed. If you ever need anything, always feel free to connect with us. We love to hear from our new visitors.

Worship, spiritual direction, pastoral care, and Christian formation are primary responsibilities of our priests. In addition, all baptized persons are ministers in the Church and we enjoy a strong partnership between ordained and lay persons at Hickory Neck. This passion for leadership thrives in our Vestry as well.

Worship Services

We are a group of dedicated individuals passionate about serving the Lord.

Worship, spiritual direction, pastoral care, and Christian formation are primary responsibilities of our priests. In addition, all baptized persons are ministers in the Church and we enjoy a strong partnership between ordained and lay persons at Hickory Neck. This passion for leadership thrives in our Vestry as well.

We give thanks for your presence among us!

We would be honored to have you join Hickory Neck Episcopal Church. We hope that the following information will be helpful in understanding membership at Hickory Neck Episcopal Church.

Joining Hickory Neck Church

“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”

2 Corinthians 9:7-8

Hickory Neck parishioners pledge to the General Fund which supports our annual operating budget. Our annual operating budget allows us to provide weekly worship, education, fellowship, pastoral care, and outreach to our community on a weekly basis. This weekly offering can only happen when we financially support the costs of administration, buildings and grounds maintenance, supplies, and salaries. We at Hickory Neck Church support working toward tithing, so the annual budget can be fully funded, providing support for our growing, thriving congregation.

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Stewardship is about being grateful, responsible stewards of the gifts we receive from God. The tradition of giving back to God and to the church comes from the Biblical practice of “tithing,” which means to give back a tenth of our earnings to God (Numbers 18:26). The Episcopal Church sees stewardship as more than simply contributing money to the church; it’s also about contributing time and talents and volunteering for ministry and mission. It’s about reaching out to build relationships from a perspective of abundance instead of scarcity.

Stewardship Campaign

In addition to supporting the general operating budget and ministries, there are other ways to contribute to Hickory Neck so that future generations can enjoy the blessing of our property and facilities. Check out the various funds that you can support.

Endowment & Covenant Funding

Historic Chapel Preservation Fund

Worship Sunday 8 & 10 AM

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Church Graveyard & Memorial Garden

There have probably been burials at Hickory Neck ever since the original building was completed around 1738 and the yard was walled in with brick in 1743. The now well-known sketch of the academy building done in 1862 by Union cartographer Robert Knox Sneden included numerous broken gravestones on the west side of the building. Mrs. Lucy James, who had been a student at Hickory Neck School from 1893 to 1896, recalled in 1934, how the older boys frightened the younger boys by telling them that they would put them under the large flat gravestones in the yard. Although these grave markers are now all gone, there is sufficient reference to say that we have long had a cemetery at Hickory Neck.

After church services were resumed on a regular basis in 1915, there were a few burials on the east side of the church building, but there does not seem to have been any formal cemetery lay-out until 1980. At that time, the congregation was beginning to grow and it was felt that cemetery plots should be laid out and offered for sale to our parishioners and their families. A cemetery committee was formed, the area was platted, rules were drawn up and burial privilege certificates were granted to those who purchased plots. At that time, it was also decided that there would be no new burials to the west and north of the church since it is thought that there are many now unmarked graves already there. The cemetery section laid out in 1980 is now sold out.

In 1992, in keeping with changing customs, a Memorial Garden was designed and established to be the repository for cremains to be returned directly to the earth without use of urns and vaults. A large granite monument was erected with a bronze plaque that lists the names and dates for those interred in the Memorial Garden.

When we acquired additional land for expansion, a section was incorporated in the overall site plan to enlarge our cemetery. In 2007, we had the new section of the cemetery surveyed and platted, and early in 2008, we began to offer plots for traditional burials and half plots for the interment of one or two sets of cremains in urns (and vaults, if desired). Copies of the rules and current prices are available from the Cemetery Committee by contacting the church office.