Episcopal City Mission Episcopal City Mission ECM chaplains minister to young people, ages 11 to 17, who are confined prior to trial in a St. Louis city or county juvenile detention center, and young people committed to the Lakeside Center for long-term residential treatment. About 75 players and spectators turned out on a gorgeous afternoon for the fun-spirited time.
Plans are underway already for next year's tournament.
Beginning in 1988, that work has extended to the young people in long-term residential care at Lakeside Center for Boys and Girls. ECM is the only funded Episcopal chaplaincy program to youth in detention in the United States, and serves approximately 3,000 juveniles each year. The St. Louis City Detention Center is served by the Rev. Mickey R. Hassler, who has been a chaplain with ECM since June 1999. That facility is a wing of the Family Court on Vandeventer and Enright, just north of St. Louis University. In August 2000, ECM hired Randal Blain to serve as chaplain to Lakeside Center near Creve Coeur Lake Park in St. Louis County.