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St. George's Episcopal Church

Fifth Sunday of Easter ~ May 10, 2020

Mother's Day

160 U Street Washington DC 20001

This Parish of the Episcopal / Anglican Church was founded in 1930 as an Episcopal Church for African Americans. St. George's witnesses to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as expressed through the Anglican Tradition. We serve as a guiding light for our parishioners as well as the larger community. We bid you welcome in the name of the Lord!

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Marilyn Jenkins

Sunday Schedule

Next Sunday Service in Church will be May 17th

7:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist RITE I with Sermon -- The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

8:30 a.m.

Hospitality Hour

9:00 a.m.

Parish Choir Rehearsal

9:00 a.m. - Conf. Room

Bible Study with The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

10:00 a.m.

Choral Holy Eucharist RITE II with Sermon -- The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

11:00 a.m.

Hospitality Hour

This Week

May 10 - Mother's Day

May 14 - Chris' graduation via livestream from VTS

May 16 - Kwanzaa Kitchen

This Sunday's Worship

St. George's ~ St. Luke's ~ Calvary

This Sunday, May 10, 2020 we will again worship via zoom joining St. Luke's and Calvary live. Please join us on Zoom if you can. Or you may join us on St. George's Facebook page as we will stream the Zoom worship live onto Facebook and on St. George's YouTube Channel.

Sunday Worship:

Date: May 10, 2020

Time: 9:45 a.m.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/3626271076

Meeting ID number: 362-627-1076. If asked for password -- 001891

If you are calling in by cellphone, we ask you to use this number: 301-715-8592, meeting ID: 362-627-1076.

If you must use landline to call in, use 1-877 -853-5247, meeting ID: 362-627-1076. Password is 001891 (this is toll-free, but it costs us)

St. George's Facebook Page Livestream Here

St. George's YouTube Channel Livestream Here

Turning Toward the Future with Caution and Hope

A Word from Bishop Budde

Bishop Budde, along with Bishop Sutton of Baltimore and Bishop Goff of Virginia, have provided guidance to the parishes in their respective Dioceses for a phased approach to reagthering as Church. It provides strict yet broad guidance following Public Health indicators.

St.George's Vestry has already begun the work of what a phased approach to reopening would be for St. George's specifically, within the guidelines of Bishop Budde's phased approach. The Vestry is collecting all of the questions we need to ask in every phase such that we think through all of the details. Once all of the questions are formulated the Vetstry will answer those questions in a well thought out manner with the goal of producing a St. George's specific plan for each phase. The Vestry welcomes all input.

The Bishops of Maryland, Washington, and Virginia phased approach document.

Seminarian Christopher Decatur

Graduation May 14, 2020

Congratulations!

Help me in extending a well deserved congratulatons to Christopher Decatur, our beloved Seminarian. Chris completed his studies at Virginia Theoligical Seminary earning a Master of Divinity degree. Graduation on May 14th will take place virtually. When Chris has the link for VTS's graduation he will forward it to us. I hope that we will all be able to be there for Chris virtually.

We will mail to Chris the purse we collected for him. We want to thank everyone who was able to contribute.

If you would like to send Chris your personal congratulations upon his graduation you may mail him at: The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio 2230 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Outreach: Serving the Community

Kwanzaa Kitchen Schedule

Kwanzaa Kitchen: Janis has been able to come up with a unique way in which we will continue to feed the hungry in this important ministry. It involves fewer than 6 people and we will pack the food to go and place it outside on tables for people to take their breakfast with them. We will continue this way until we are able to gather groups together again.

Making Masks: Currently there is a national shortage of masks, and these masks are vital as they can be worn over the single use N95 masks and allow them to be worn for up to a week. A collague has been sewing these for the past few nights, and they are an incredibly easy way to help our community. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to make them: https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-make-face-mask-coronavirus.html

We will collect them at the church and then send them where they are needed most. Please contact the Rev Jenkins if you have made masks that need to be picked up.