St. Vincent's House | A staple in our island community

At age 25, Fred Walter Sutton of Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church arrived in Galveston. The year was 1953. By 1954, Fred Walter Sutton had been consecrated as a priest. He made it his new mission to begin looking for an area of most need in order to establish his ministry through Saint Augustine. Fred found out quickly if the area north of Broadway and west of Rosenberg Avenue was the area that he was being called to serve. The need for health and general assistance to the community north of Broadway had been neglected by social progress for decades. He initially invited groups of the underserved and neglected to his home until his mission and generosity outgrew his own walls. The importance of the work he was doing was acknowledged by the three Episcopal congregations on the island; Saint Augustine of Hippo, Grace Church, and Trinity Church. In 1958 these three congregations pulled their resources and chartered St. Vincent‘s House. Over the past six decades, St. Vincent‘s House has provided services such as a food pantry, shower and laundry services, comprehensive case management, family services, assistance in self-sustainability, financial literacy, speech, as well as occupational and physical therapy, general medicine and provides availability to multiple specialty clinics—all of these services available to those in need. The University of Texas Medical Branch has played a key role over the past 40 years, providing support, personnel, and medical services. St. Vincent‘s House has played a key role in serving and providing to the north Broadway community for over six decades.

Interested in information covered in this episode? Reference links below:
St. Vincent's House
Trinity Church Galveston
Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church | GHF
Grace Church
St. Vincent's Student Run Clinic

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