F. Hitchcock Memorial Prayer Garden
Dedicated on October 14, 2001, the Hitchcock Memorial Prayer Garden and meditation walk is the first of its kind in the Nebraska Diocese of the Episcopal Church. The idea for the garden is based on the Quiet Garden Trust, a vision that originated with Philip Roderick of South Wales. Essential elements of the prayer garden are welcome and hospitality. Benches are placed throughout the garden to provide places for rest and meditation.
Del Morgan, together with Virginia Kincaid, worked to obtain grants from OPPD and the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Foundation to make the garden possible. Moore’s Nursery and Landscape provided the initial design and plantings for the berms. Yano’s Nursery planted the trees and Greenacres Lawn Service installed the drip irrigation system. Parishioners have donated trees to commemorate many occasions, both in celebration and in memoriam. Each spring, parishioners also ‘adopt’ a berm to weed, water, and trim thereby sharing the work of maintaining the garden.
You will find a wide variety of plantings ranging from grasses to flowering shrubs to blooming perennials in each berm. A range of trees can also be found throughout the garden including Canada Red Cherry, Burr Oak, Hawthorne, Green Ash, Cleveland Pear, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, Sunset Maple, Birch, and Kwanza Cherry.
Millennium Development Goals
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the
commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's
main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction,
education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality,
AIDS and other diseases.
