Josh Singleton is Men's Prayer Breakfast Speaker at St. Francis of Assisi

Prairie View, TX – St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church is delighted to announce that Mr. Josh Singleton, Founder and Lead Cultivator of The Neighborhood Garden Project, is the featured speaker at the upcoming Men’s Prayer Breakfast. The event will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. in the St. Francis Parish Hall, 2000 Phillip. 

All are invited to attend this community gathering of fellowship, faith, and inspiration.   Please register attendance at stfrancispv@sbcglobal.net or call 936-857-3272.

Josh is a steward of the garden in every sense of the word. He tends not only to soil and seed but also to the souls that pass through its gates. With over two decades of experience in agriculture, he has shifted his focus from growing food to cultivating people. He believes the garden is a sacred place where people are invited to become—where transformation is not forced but gently cultivated.

Josh is currently working with St. Francis of Assisi in planning an engagement to establish a garden at the church in collaboration with the members of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Hempstead and the Episcopal Health Charities.

Josh walks slowly and intentionally, creating space for others to reconnect with purpose, embrace their identity, and experience lasting change through the steady cultivation of trust, truth, and transformation. He sees the garden as more than a plot—it is a Kingdom embassy where heaven meets earth through hands in the soil and hearts made whole.

He has seen too much in the soil to believe that speed produces depth. Josh is convinced there is a slower, more formative way—a way that honors process over pressure and presence over performance. Serving the soil, people, and purpose from the ground up, he lives and leads from below—anchored in surrender, marked by presence, and devoted to cultivating the unseen until it bears fruit.”

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The Rt. Reverend Brian Seage, Assisting Bishop, Diocese of Texas to celebrate at St. Francis of Assisi

The Rt. Reverend Brian Seage, Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of Texas – Northeast Region, will celebrate the Holy Eucharist at St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Prairie View on Sunday, October 19 at 4:30 p.m. The public is also invited to the service on the YouTube Platform.

Part of the celebration include the recognition of the 75th Anniversary of St. Francis, which was established as a mission church of the Diocese of Texas in October 1950. The church became a full parish church in February of 1992. The Reverend Rhonda Rogers is the Rector.

Bishop Seage will also welcome three confirmants - and three receptions to the Episcopal Family.

The Rt. Rev. Brian Richard Seage joined the Episcopal Diocese of Texas in January 2025 to serve as part-time Assisting Bishop for the North Region.

Prior to joining the Diocese of Texas, he served as the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. He was elected on May 3, 2014, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Jackson, MS. He was consecrated as bishop coadjutor on September 27, 2014, and then succeeded Duncan M Gray, III as the tenth bishop diocesan when Gray retired in February 2015.

Seage was elected as bishop coadjutor during his tenure as rector at St. Columb’s in Ridgeland, MS where he began serving in 2005. He was also the dean of the Central Convocation of the Diocese of Mississippi where he helped co-ordinate and enable the ministry of Episcopal clergy in central Mississippi.

He holds an undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and a Master of Divinity from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. He has been a priest since 1998.

From 1997 to 1998, Seage served as curate at St. John’s, Ocean Springs, and then as rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Diamondhead from 1998 to 2005, growing both attendance and programming in the parish. A successful building program was completed and average Sunday attendance doubled during his ministry at St. Thomas.

Seage was called to St. Columb’s in 2005. St. Columb’s attendance and programming grew under his leadership and a large building project was completed.

Before entering the priesthood, Seage served as director of youth ministry for St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in his native Thousand Oaks, CA. In this large, program-size church he managed a team of volunteers to support both the junior high and senior high youth groups, assisted with chapel at St. Patrick’s Day School, and coordinated the congregation’s Habitat for Humanity program.

In the Diocese of Mississippi, Seage served as a Fresh Start facilitator and was on the diocese’s executive committee from 2006 through 2009. He was also a member of the diocesan Restructure Task Force.

Seage was a summer camp session director at Camp Bratton-Green from 2006 until 2019. He also served on the Gray Center Board of Managers and the Executive committee of the Diocese. While at St. Thomas, he served on the board of trustees for Coast Episcopal School.

During his tenure as Bishop of Mississippi Seage served the wider church as a Trustee at Sewanee, Trustee at Seminary of the Southwest and Board member for Recovery Ministries

of the Episcopal Church along with other assignments. In Mississippi he was active in the wider community with Working Together Jackson and Working Together Mississippi.

Brian is married to the Rev. Kyle Dice Seage, former rector at St. Philip’s in Jackson, MS and current rector at St. Stephen’s in Belvedere, California. They are parents to two adult daughters, Katie and Betsy.