Bishop Rob Price visited St. William Laud in Pittsburg on Sunday where East Texas parishioners brought the hospitality of welcoming and a reception of home-cooked food. The service attendance numbered around 35.

The church has two supply priests who each lead one Sunday service a month. Senior Warden Sam Ulmer leads morning prayer the other Sundays. The church has an active food pantry providing staples for those in need and an active sewing, knitting, and crocheting group who call themselves the KnitWits.  These faithful parishioners also have an impressive organ and organist for a small church and say they are proud to procure a used Robert Ross King organ from a private owner in Dallas and that it has been a blessing to their church.

This wonderfully tight group of believers ask for prayers from throughout the diocese that they are able to get a permanent priest so they can have Eucharist every Sunday. This church tucked behind the Pine Curtain in Pittsburg, Texas is doing the Lord’s work and is a gift to the diocese.