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  • "When we started the Gowanus Houses Art Collective it was our hope that our Gowanus neighbors would come together to create youth programming for a woefully underserved public housing unit. No organization better represents the promise of that hope than St. Lydia's. From congregants volunteering at our art workshops, to hosting a photography show of our kids' work, to getting involved in the issues that are affecting the residents of Gowanus Houses. St. Lydia's has been the essence of a good neighbor."

    — Tracey Pinkard & Chris O’Falt, co-founders of Gowanus Houses Arts Collective

  • "In the midst of an overwhelming amount of injustice and violence... St. Lydia’s gives me hope that the church can be an active expression of peace and justice in our world.”

    — Chloe

  • "When I found St. Lydia’s, hope flickered in me that maybe I had found a group of people who, like me, knew that life was about working together, sharing peace, and making sure nobody leaves hungry. In a city of so much hunger and loneliness, St. Lydia’s gives me hope for kinder and warmer days ahead."

    — Debbie

  • "St. Lydia's is a church where being human, with all its physicality and imperfection, is a good thing! My hope it that St. Lydia's inspires the wider church to think differently about our embodiedness: to treat our humanness not as a hindrance to relationship with God, but as the beautiful foundation and chosen medium for our faith, and to take embodied issues like racial, economic, and sexual justice seriously."

    — Melissa

  • "St. Lydia's has given so much to me throughout the years. Looking ahead, I hope that it continues to be a refuge for people who have been hurt by the church, a place where they can find love, food, faith, and friends."

    — Shamika

  • "It was our St. Lydia's family who made sweet potato burritos (so many burritos!) to keep in our freezer for those first few chaotic days after my wife gave birth...who were the first to come visit us in the hospital...and helped us travel by taxi to our apartment to start those first new steps into parenthood. If it weren't for St. Lydia's, I don't know what we would have done."

    — Burke