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History of St. Margarets |
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| In 1990, Bishop Herbert Donovan and Archdeacon Richard Milwee appointed the Rev. Canon Christoph Keller, III to start a new church in west Little Rock. Canon Keller moved from Van Buren to Little Rock and set up offices as the guest of St. Michael's and began to lay the groundwork for a new congregation.
A group of 27 missionary members were recruited and commissioned from Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Christ Episcopal Church, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, St. Michael's and Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. They studied and prayed together, and put together a telephone campaign to find people who did not have a church home and would like to receive an invitation to attend St. Margaret's. A total of 15,000 phone calls were made, with the hope that 200 would come to the first service.
The Market Street Bargain Cinema was the site of St. Margaret's first service on November 3, 1991, with 258 in attendance. On February 27, 1992, St. Margaret's was formally admitted as a mission congregation of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas with 145 founding members.
The growing congregation moved to Cinema City Breckenridge Village on Easter Sunday 1993. Each Sunday, a crew hauled and set up all the equipment for worship and church school to the theater, and took it down and hauled it back afterwards.
The current building on Chenal Parkway was dedicated on April 14, 1996.
Canon Keller retired from parish duties May 31, 1998 to return to seminary for advanced theological studies, and the Rev. Bill Martin was installed as vicar of St. Margaret's on July 4, 1999. The Rev. Dr. Peggy Bosmyer became the vicar on June 3, 2001. |
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