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St. George's Episcopal Church

Sixth Sunday of Easter ~ May 17, 2020

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

Turning Toward the Future with Caution and Hope

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 is working on our specific plan. Please email the Vestry with your thoughts and contrbutions.

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

Sunday Schedule

The Next Sunday Service in Church will be determined by Public Health Indicators and implemented in a phased approach

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 14 - Chris' graduation via livestream from VTS

May 16 - Kwanzaa Kitchen

May 17 - Zoom Worship

https://zoom.us/j/3626271076

This Sunday's Worship

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

This Sunday, May 17, 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 17, 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

Blood Drive for Children’s Medical Center

June 3 and June 4, 2020

10 am – 4 pm

The need for blood donations never takes a vacation. Due to new Corona Virus social distancinggGuidelines, the center can only accept 20 units of Whole Blood and 4 Units of Platelets each day.

You can give if you are: 1. Healthy and feeling well, 2. Able to consume a full meal before donation, 3. Weigh more than 110 lbs

Possibly Ineligible if you have had: 1. Shots or vaccinations in the past 8 weeks, 2. A major illness in the past 6 months, 3. Travel outside the US or Canada in the past 3 years

Temporarily ineligible: 1. Antibiotic or medication for an infection, dental work, cold or illness within 3 days of donation or 2. Illegal drugs or tattoo in the past 12 months

Donations will be given at

Children’s National Medical Center

Edward J. Miller Jr. Blood Donor Center

111 Michigan Avenue, NE, Suite M2700

Free Validated Parking

All Donations stay With Children’s. Children’s needs over 100 units of whole blood each week. Each donation of whole blood provides transfusions for 4-5 children. Children’s treats over 1400 children with sickle cell. Sickle cell patients need blood transfusions every 4-6 weeks.

If you want to give platelets you will be contacted by Children’s as there are additional requirements. Platelets are desperately needed.

Donations are taken every half hour beginning at 10 am. We ask that you be flexible in scheduling.

To schedule an appointment contact:

Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

301-996-4102 (voice or text)

Gfisher143@verizon.net

We will be taking appointments until May 23, 2020

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.