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The Five Marks of Mission

January 6, 2016 by St. George's Leave a Comment

We do not often think of ourselves as a “missionary” church, but we are! Come explore the “5 Marks of Mission” as named by The Episcopal Church and worldwide Anglican Communion, and adopted by the General Convention in 2009:

To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom (Tell)
To teach, baptize and nurture new believers (Teach)
To respond to human need by loving service (Go)
To seek to transform unjust structures of society (Transform)
To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth (Renew)

We’ll explore how we are living out this mission at St. George’s and imagine new possibilities as well. Sundays, 10 a.m., Sydnor Hall, throughout the month of January 2016.

Be a Gamechanger

January 6, 2016 by St. George's Leave a Comment

Souper Bowl Sunday of Caring for Stop Hunger Now will take place on Sunday, February 7. Immediately following the 11 a.m. service, we will join our Presbyterian neighbors for about an hour and a half to package 20,000 meals and have lunch together. Our youth will be collecting donations to cover the costs of these meals, about $2,500. They will be stationed at the doors all morning with their soup pots, so please give generously on Souper Bowl Sunday and come help pack meals!

Call Gay Copley from the Presbyterian Church at 371-1630 if you would like to help with lunch.

Children’s Vitamin Collection

December 24, 2015 by St. George's Leave a Comment

The Haiti Team is collecting chewable children’s vitamins for their upcoming trip to Port Au Prince in February. No Gummy Vitamins please! Place vitamins in the collection basket in the narthex just inside the doors.

Live the Questions: Animate Bible Study

December 22, 2015 by St. George's Leave a Comment

Sundays, Jan. 10-31. Faulkner Hall. To ask questions is to open ourselves up to new insights. In each of four upcoming Adult Education sessions, we will watch a short video and discuss the questions the segments pose of the Bible and our relationship to it.

One speaker explores the questions theologians wrestle with reconciling God’s love in the midst of dark and violent stories. Another has us ponder the fact that the gospel stories about Jesus were meant to be game changers for the audience. The third session ask the question: “what’s really going on here?” and how that might shift our interpretation. The last session we will discuss how the Bible is used as a weapon, a fortune cookie and a fairy tale. Please join us with your coffee and your questions! Facilitated by Melanie Clore.

Baking and Cocoa Mix Fundraiser Success

December 21, 2015 by St. George's Leave a Comment

Our third, fourth and fifth and sixth graders decided to “make straight the Way of the Lord” by having a hot cocoa mix and ‘brownies in a jar’ sale to raise money to help our world be a better place. The children and their teachers planned our ingredients, accepted donations and measured out all cups of flour. Every one of us involved would like to give a huge THANK YOU to all who supported the children by purchasing or donating to the children’s work, allowing them to raise over $300 for the Fredericksburg SPCA and St. Jude’s Hospital for Children.