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Register Today for 2019 ASL Classes

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Learn American Sign Language!

Classes run Tuesdays, April 23 – June 11, from 7 – 8:30 pm at the Renwick Building (815 Princess Anne Street). Classes are taught by Pastor Mike Byrd, who is Deaf and has over 30 years of teaching ASL to hearing students. His passion and zeal for teaching and sharing his Deaf heritage are evident to all who meet him.

Fill out the form below to register. Cost for the class is $25, scholarships are available. Child care is available, please contact the office.

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Give Up Plastic for Lent

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Consider the tons of plastic we use and be aware it often ends up in our oceans. It is estimated that at the rate we are going there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean.  It can feel like a problem too big to address but:

What if we just stopped buying plastic for the 40 days of Lent?

  • What would it look like?
  • We’d shop from places that didn’t package food in plastic.
  • We’d take our own containers to shops to be refilled
  • We’d eat at home more often, and not wrap leftovers or lunches in plastic
  • We wouldn’t buy plastic
  • We would refuse to take free plastic stuff
  • We would frequent places that are not contributing to plastic pollution

This is just a start; please add to this list and share.

I know I for one will be surprised to see how much plastic I use without thinking.

Giving up plastic for Lent could make us more conscious of our connection to our surroundings. It could make us more conscious of our decisions. It could make us better stewards of God’s creation.

Lent is a time for reflection and for trying to get closer to God to understand what he wants for us and from us.

What if giving up plastic for Lent helped?

Parish Prayer Partners in Lent

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Prayer is the glue that binds our community together! It’s time for “3P in L,” the lent 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 during the time of Lent. 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. During the time of Easter, we’ll meet up for a fun event to “reveal” who’s praying for whom! Deadline to sign up is February 27.

If you cannot see the form below (as on some mobile devices), please click here to register.

 

 

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St. George’s Offers Haiti Benefit Concerts on New Year’s Eve

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St. George’s Episcopal Church will offer New Year’s Eve Concerts to benefit the Notre Dame Parish and School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The evening begins with an organ concert by St. George’s five organists at 8:30 pm, followed by the best in jazz, funk, and Latin jazz with St. George’s Jazz Ensemble at 10 pm.

Admission is free with donations accepted at the door. Hot cocoa, bottled water, and baked goods will be available for sale as well. All proceeds help support the 383 schoolchildren of the Notre Dame Parish and School with food, clothing, supplies, and medical care.

For more information, contact (540) 373-4133 or concerts@stgeorgesepiscopal.net. To learn more about St. George’s concert series, visit www.stgeorgesepiscopal.net/music/concerts.

Unity at The Table

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Today is National Unity Day, but you’d never know it by looking at the headlines and news. Everyday at The Table at St. George’s is National Unity Day – Kindness/Acceptance/Inclusion. Yesterday the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank came in to do their annual inspection of our food pantry. One of the questions concerned who we allow to shop. Our answer was anyone who walks in the door and asks for food. We invite them to come back weekly as long as they have a need. Another question was about the area we serve. We have people come from Manassas, Triangle, King George, Caroline, Orange, Stafford, Spotsylvania, as well as Fredericksburg. We even serve people passing thru Virginia who have been told to go to The Table.

One of our regulars told us that when she wakes up on Tuesday, she is happy because she knows she will be welcomed at The Table where she’ll find community and veggies! How lovely is that!! The fields and orchards are almost done for the year. A volunteer commented last night that he is seeing more people on the street, and we definitely experienced an upturn in numbers last night. The woolly worms are supposedly predicting a rough winter. Someone handed me a bag of potatoes for The Table & said it was a Buy One/Get One deal at her store, but she could only use one. Every grocery store seems to have an abundance of offers like that & if you can’t use the extra box, can or bag yourself, please think of The Table. We can definitely use it.

 

Volunteer and Get Involved

The Table and our Community Dinner ministries are in need of volunteers. Our produce team needs adult and teen volunteers on Sunday afternoons from 2:30 – 4 p.m. to meet and unload the fresh produce from the farm truck. Crates can weigh up to 40 lbs., so a little muscle helps. 3rd Monday of the month Community Dinners need to update their list of volunteers. If you are able to come serve, clean up, wash dishes between 4:30 to 7 p.m., please let us know. For both – Contact Grace in Action to get involved.