Renewal Garden

We are blessed to have inherited the building and garden of All Saints Episcopal Church on 46th Street. The existing garden was created with funds from the Western Queens “Power for the People” Campaign, and was built by the faithful people of All Saints Episcopal Church. That parish was founded in 1928, and was closed in 2020. 

But out of death—new life. As this new Episcopal Mission in Sunnyside grows into a new kind of spiritual community, we are working with Q Studios, the 45th St. Green Space, Big Reuse, and other neighbors to cultivate this garden as a blessing to the neighborhood. We hope this garden will become a living symbol of resilience, renewal, and transformation—even resurrection. 

For that reason, and because we are in the midst of a climate emergency, we are committed to the principle of adaptive reuse: whenever feasible, we are using reclaimed and recycled materials—giving old things new life and new purpose. It is our hope that this garden will be a concrete enactment of our mission: “that the whole world may see and know that things which have been cast down are being raised up, and things which have grown old are being made new.” 

This kind of transformation is always happening in the natural world—and it also takes time. Over the next few months and years, there will be times of big, sudden change—and times when nothing much seems to be happening. But growth is happening underground. 

We are always looking for new partners and neighbors who want to join in this project of renewal—and who have their own dreams and visions of how this neighborhood might thrive. As in nature, we flourish when we are part of a diverse and connected ecosystem.