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Welcome to our Church. We hope this will serve to provide you information about both the past and our present of The Episcopal Church of The Incarnation. Holy Eucharist Begins at 9:00am every Sunday and children are Welcome!

The Episcopal Church of The Incarnation is a mission parish of the Diocese of West Virginia, the Rt. Rev. Miche Klusmeyer, Bishop. We are members of the Greenbrier Episcopal Ministries which also includes St. Thomas Episcopal Church of White Sulphur Springs. The Episcopal Church is a member of the world-wide Anglican Communion which consists of churches around the world that trace their roots to the Church of England and are based on a distinct form of Christianity, known as Anglicanism. We strive to live by the message of Christ where there are no outcasts and all are welcome. OUR CLERGY The Rev. Charles Christopher (Chris) Thompson, our Missioner, came to the Church of The Incarnation in July 2011. Chris was born February 10, 1953 in Portsmouth, Ohio. After several moves, his family settled in Wheeling, West Virginia. He attended Triadelphia High School, Marshall University, and graduated from West Liberty University. Following a year working in coal mines, he enrolled and graduated from The Virginia Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity. He has served churches in West Virginia, Ohio, Florida and Virginia. He served as a Chaplain and retired from the US Air Force Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2003. Chis is married to Mary Jo, from Summersville. They have three married children and six grandchildren. Chris and Mary Jo reside in Lewisburg. The Rev. Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Walker, Associate Priest, also joined us in the summer of 2011. Betsy was raised at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She earned her B.S. in Education Art K-12 and taught at Liberty High School in Raleigh County for five years before entering the seminary. Betsy graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1987 and served a year as a transitional deacon at Christ Church, Bluefield. She was ordained as a priest in 1988 and called as rector of St. John's, Ripley that year. She was also named vicar of Grace Church, Ravenswood in 1993. Betsy became a Supervisory Chaplain with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in March 1996. She has served at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson for the past 15 1/2 years. From 1989 to 2010, Betsy was the editor of "The Dayspring", the newspaper for the Diocese of West Virginia. She has supplied in the Episcopal Churches in Bluefield, Union, Lewisburg, Ronceverte, and White Sulphur Springs. Betsy and her parnter, Pat, reside in Lewisburg. OUTREACH AND MISSION "May our Lives Mirror our Faith in Jesus Christ" is our mission. In so keeping we support many local outreach programs. We provide winter clothing to Ronceverte Elementary School students and turkey breasts to the Ronceverte Food Bank at Thanksgiving; we continue to asist the Food Bank during the year. We support the "Annual Community Christmas Dinner" in Ronceverte and Peterkin, the West Virginia Episcopal youth camp where we contribute to scholarships so children can attend. We give to the "Episcopal Relief Fund," and the "Elewana Educational Project", in Kenya. We contribute to the annual worldwide "Operation Christmas Child" program. We also send financial support to the National and World Emergency Service contributions. HISTORY The first records we have of an Episcopal bishop visiting the Lewisburg Area is in 1832 by the Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. After that time and for the next several decades, occasional visitations were made by both nearby bishops and rectors to Lewisburg, Union and Ronceverte. In 1880, the Episcopal Church shared a church building with Presbyterians and Baptists. Two years later that one third ownership was sold to the Presbyterian Church and the resulting funds were used to build and Episcopal Church in what was the growing town of Ronceverte. The Church building was completed and consecrated in 1883; and it grew in membership and activity after that. In July, 1937, the Church hired a contractor to move the church to its present location, to build a full undercroft, to remodel and renovate the santuary and to construct appropriate sidewalks and exterior improvements. The first record of service in the new location is on October 3rd of that year. There have been forty-four clergymen who have served the Episcopal Church of The Incarnation during its one hundred plus years.

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