Iona-Hope Episcopal Church

About this church

Iona-Hope Episcopal Church in Fort Myers offers Eucharist with healing on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. and Saturday at 5:00 p.m.; the Saturday service is also livestreamed. Sunday begins with a quiet Rite I Eucharist at 8:00, followed by a Rite II service with choir and livestream at 9:30. The congregation’s visitor welcome explicitly spans differences in marital status, sexual orientation, political outlook, and life experience, presenting worship as a place for people who are certain, questioning, hopeful, or hurting.

Community care is unusually broad. Iona-Hope supports food pantries, offers a grief group, provides pastoral visits and Communion at home or in the hospital, and creates prayer shawls for people facing illness or loss. Its thrift store directs proceeds to nonprofit organizations. The congregation began worshiping in a modular building on Palm Sunday 2000; its name connects the parish’s Christian hope with the island of Iona in Scotland. For newcomers, this profile brings together traditional Episcopal liturgy, healing prayer, online access, practical care, an inclusive welcome, and a relatively young parish history rooted in the Fort Myers community.

Researched from the church’s official website and reviewed August 24, 2026. Sources: Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday services · Inclusive visitor welcome · Food, grief, pastoral-care, prayer-shawl, and thrift ministries · Congregational identity and values

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