Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
A small group of Episcopalians started meeting 75 years ago for worship services in the bar of the downtown Warsaw Hayes Hotel, the present site of the Lake City Bank headquarters.
In the coming years, the church would move several times before purchasing the current church facilities from Sacred Heart Catholic Church. A major addition of a large parish hall, commercial kitchen, classrooms and other facilities (including an elevator) was begun in 1996, according to a news release from the church.
The chapel features 12 Tiffany-style, stained glass windows and four archangel statues hand-carved by artists in Italy. St. Anne members have been instrumental in founding a number of area non-profits, including CASA, Beaman Home and Boomerang Backpacks. Other members have been forces for growth of Combined Community Services, Habitat for Humanity, Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts, Operation Read, Warsaw Municipal Airport and the transformation of the Village at Winona, according to the release.
The church supports more than 12 outreach programs in the community, including the annual distribution of Thanksgiving meal baskets to over 200 area families. This effort is aided by support of The Salvation Army and a number of area local businesses. Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack is another St. Anne’s-sponsored effort.
Other church food ministries include a small food pantry, fresh food garden, payment of delinquent lunch accounts at Edgewood Middle School and support of the community soup kitchen. More recently, the church began delivering food and hygiene items to Retired Tigers Living Complex twice each month.
All are welcome to attend Sunday Services at 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw.
