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The Earthquake, Aug. 23, 2011
On August 23, 2011, Central Virginia experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale, considered a 100-year earthquake. It would take 4.5 years to repair and cover the almost $92,000 costs associated with this event
The “Girls” Group to “Youth in Global”, 2012-2016
The Youth in Global program, on original program created by Deacon Carey Chirico, has provided youth time to study pressing problems that affect women throughout the world. The UN trip in March allows them to show what they have learned in small groups, faith based sessions and in worship.
Risk and religion: St. George’s speaker on embracing compassion amidst nationalism – Interfaith 2017
Lenten Weekend, 2017 – “Being Passionately Christian and Becoming Compassionately Interfaith” hosted the Rev. Sathianathan Clarke who spoke on ways to think about religion in a climate of nationalism and religious hostility.
Getting Started in St. George's History - 6 essential resources
Selections from several categories of our history.
McGuire served all 3 churches over the course of 45 years. He is probably the most influential of all our rectors in all phases of ministry from preaching, teaching, and outreach. Trip Wiggins, our archivist, wrote this for a Sunday school class and has been teaching classes for years
6. Tom Faulkner confronts the Vestry on race
Faulkner served St. George's for 30 years from 1946-1976. During these years racial policies were paramount, especially 1954, in the year of Brown vs. Board of Education, Faulkner was challenged by the Vestry on the role of Blacks in our service. He was able to move St. George's toward racial justice that other rectors would further
