Our Fall 2018 Parish Life brochure is now available. Pick up a hard copy in the church office or the tract rack in the Narthex. You can also download a copy here.
This brochure has highlights of important dates, activities, and events. It also includes information on our Christian Formation for all ages. Take a look and see how you can get connected!
Prayer is the glue that binds our community together! It’s time for “3P in F,” the fall edition of our semi-annual parish-wide prayer activity. Sign up–alone or with members of your household, including children–to pray for another member or household of the parish in the weeks leading up to Advent. Your name will be given to someone else for prayer. Every week you will receive a message of encouragement and instruction about ways to pray. Later this year, we’ll meet up for a fun event to “reveal” who’s praying for whom! Deadline to sign up is Oct. 1.
This form is no longer taking submission. To sign up for our 2019 Fall Parish Prayer Partners, click here.
Register Today for Anti-Racism Diocesan WorkshopSt. George’s is pleased to sponsor an Anti-Racism Workshop entitled, “Seeing the Face of God in Each Other” September 7 – 8, 2018 in Sydnor Hall. This Diocesan workshop will run from 5 – 9 pm on Friday, September 7 and 8:30 am – 5 pm on Saturday, September 8.
During the workshop, participants will acquire anti-racism tools and explore avenues towards reconciliation.
St. George’s Episcopal Church is proud to announce their 2018 – 2019 Chamber Music Series. This season of “beautiful music in a beautiful space” will be offered free to the public. All concerts are at 3 pm and take place in the Nave of St. George’s, 905 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401.
In order to offer the concerts free of charge, St. George’s has established a “Friends of Music” program. Donations are welcome at any level, including: $75, Donor; $100, Contributor; $250, Friend; $500, Patron; and $800, Concert Sponsor. Checks can be made payable to “St. George’s Episcopal Church” with “Friends of CMS” in the memo line and mailed to: St. George’s Episcopal Church Music Office, 905 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401.
“Donations towards our concert series will help us make great music available to an even larger part of our community,” explained John H. Vreeland, Director of Music Ministries at St. George’s.
The full concert series includes a wide range of music, from early music, to jazz, to folk and bluegrass, and more:
For more information or to make a donation, contact (540) 373-4133 or concerts@stgeorgesepiscopal.net. To learn more about St. George’s concert series, visit www.stgeorgesepiscopal.net/music/concerts.
Baseball has its teams and St. George’s has its docent team which has its opening game on April 30. The season runs until Labor Day. Docents provide tours for anyone – you don’t have to be a visitor to St. George’s from afar. If you are new to St. George’s, this is a way to gain insight on this church’s 300-year history. Guests coming to your home over the summer? This is a worthwhile tour to add to their fun times here. Besides, there are plenty of great places to grab a bite to eat after the tour.
We try to schedule docents for continuous tours 10 am – 12 pm in the morning and 1 pm – 3 pm in the afternoon, Monday through Saturday. We are short of docents this year. Currently, docents will generally be on hand Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning, as well as Friday and Saturday, both morning and afternoon.
If there are no docents when you want to tour, no problem. We have a 15-minute printed walking tour, a card about the church, and a graveyard tour. Short on time? We have a 5-minute graveyard tour. Did you know there is a bench there that’s great for a hot day?
This year we have new resources in two areas -the Stained Glass Windows and Pews. The windows have their own printed tour brochure, a website, “St George’s Glass” ( https://glass.churchsp.org ) and a mobile app in the Google play store (search “St. George’s Glass“). Did you know that one of our windows “Nativity” will be 75 years old at the end of May? The family was found in Georgia and Northern Virginia this year and plan to visit around that time. Both the brochure and website efforts were aided by Hans Fischer, a Belgium visitor in late 2017, who fell in love with our windows and lent his photographic skill in the creation of those resources.
The Pews have a new brochure as well. You can see the original pew layout when they sold the pews in 1849 for the construction of the current church. It paid for the entire church at once! No debt! The sale was described in our history as “exciting and entertaining”, practically “everyone was there” and pews went like “hot cakes.” Also addressed is when they taxed the pews after the Civil War. This never worked particularly well, but is an interesting addition to the story. Finally, we cover the changes to the pew layout since 1849. We have lost pews – see why. Separately, there is a paper on the pew memorial plaques you find on some pews. Loula Brockenbrough Knox’s name is on four pews. Read her sad story.
All the documents are in the tract rack to the left of the red doors inside the narthex. We still have need of docents particularly Monday and Tuesday. If you can spare two hours in the morning or afternoon, then you can be a docent. Don’t know much about our history? Our veteran on the team, Craig Rains, created our docents’ manual and it has been updated to 2018 that will take care of your anxieties. You can become one of our star players. All it takes is a love of working with people who encounter St. George’s and are curious what has gone on here for almost 300 years. Email Ben Hicks or call 540-373-4133 if interested.