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How We Do God's Work

How We Do God's Work

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We’re very proud of this track record. It wouldn’t have happened without the people of St. Dunstan’s walking with and working with a remarkable succession of Episcopal priests and dedicated laymen and women in Hinche. It has taken all of us, plus a network of friends and supporters throughout the Monterey Peninsula, to get us this far. By walking together hand in hand we are bringing hope for a better life to thousands of children who otherwise would grow up without hope!

Throughout this journey, we’ve been blessed with help from our local Carmel Unified School District (donated computers), our local Rotary Club (sanitation system), the International Foundation (solar panels), Episcopal Relief and Development (water well and diesel backup generator), the St. Dunstan’s Foundation (school costs and food) and from others. Our gratitude is boundless.

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So too has been the strong, inspired leadership of our friends in Hinche. They, after all, have literally done the work while ensuring that funds sent from St. Dunstan’s are spent as intended. We’ve never had cause for concern about their stewardship.

In recent years, major civil unrest throughout the country has made life very difficult and often dangerous for our students and their parents, our teachers and staff, and our local farmers and cooks. Gangs of young men armed with advanced military guns from the United States imperil daily life with kidnappings and assault in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and elsewhere in the country. Endemic poverty forces countless widowed women in their 40s and 50s onto the streets, where they become ragged beggars because their families can’t afford to feed them. Their constant companions are illness, starvation, and death. Some children eat cookies made from mud dried in the sun to quench their hunger. Our female graduates will never be beggars.

“Life in Haiti is very, very difficult,” our devoted priest-in-charge at St. Andre’s, the Rev. Noe Bernier, recently said from the pulpit at St. Dunstan’s. Even so, he said, “I see hope in the eyes of 1,500 kids . . . in the eyes of parents . . . in the eyes of staff. I will never, never give up.”

Nor, with God’s help, will the people of St. Dunstan’s and our many friends.

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Join us Sundays for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 8 am & 10 am, and Wednesdays at 10 am.

You can also watch a livestream of our 10 am Holy Eucharist, revisit homilies and past weeks’ worship on our YouTube channel.

You can still read or watch or listen to past sermons here.

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28005 Robinson Canyon Rd.
Carmel, CA 93923

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Welcome to St. Dunstan's! We are a growing and vital Episcopal congregation of the Diocese of El Camino Real, and a member of the Anglican Communion. If you are seeking a new faith community, a place of belonging, or the opportunity to grow your faith in study and action, we hope you will consider St. Dunstan’s!

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Sunday mornings at St. Dunstan’s is the time when the community gathers together to worship and praise God! Services of Holy Eucharist happen at 8am (Rite II, no music) and at 10am (Rite II with organ & choir), followed by coffee and connection! We also gather on Wednesday mornings for a more intimate service with conversation, reflection and communion. Any time you are unable to join us in person, head on over to St. Dunstan’s Live, where you can join us for our 10am service, live-streamed on YouTube. You’ll also find our latest sermons and past services on our St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church Carmel Valley YouTube Channel. And, once a month we gather for Church for All Generations — a time of theme-based fellowship and activities for all ages!

You can still watch or listen to past sermons here.

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We value: Community, open hearts, open minds, open arms. Faith. Fortitude. Staying current, but equally staying rooted in tradition. Reason and honesty. Civic responsibility. Debate that allows for mutual respect. Music and beauty for their own sake. Joy in God’s creation. Anyone who makes an effort to get to know and follow Jesus.

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St. Dunstan’s is located on the spectacularly beautiful Central Coast of California, in Carmel Valley. Our church and school are in Mid-valley, just six miles inland from California Highway 1, and 5 miles west of Carmel Valley Village.

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