Social justice at St. George’s didn’t begin in the time of Faulkner and Sydnor, However, they took St. George’s church in new directions involving racial integration in the church and how social issues, such as housing, plight of medical care for the poor and sexual orientation. were handled.
This is an ongoing project to fill in the details about our rectors, particularly images and stories about their lives around St. George’s
This was the first Rosebud trip which was the result of an earlier advance trip. The excerpts were from the St. Georgian. Recently we also came across a scrapbook of the trip. Why did they go ? “Indian reservations are the last bastions of economic and social neglect in the United States. Only recently have people begun to see the reservations as places where God’s Word can be put to work in positive and healing way.”
Some notes on early interfaith work from our docent’s manual written originally by Craig Rains. Image is Beth Shalom Temple on Charlotte Street
St. George’s Mission program is our longest continuing mission program beginning with donations in the 1980s and then in 2003 with parishioners visiting the orphanage of Our Little Roses in San Pedro Sula. Teams visited from 2004-2009 but with political unrest and opportunities for mission elsewhere the program has seen declines. The church still makes regular gifts to OLR.
“Gentlemen if the ladies decide they want a new kitchen, they will have it.” Attributed to Mary Freeman Funk by Betty Poole. The kitchen project took place in 1992 in the midst of a church dealing with a budget crisis. The amazing fact is not that the ladies did the work on their own to raise the money, plan for a contractor but that the Vestry accepted it almost as it was presented in the midst of financial problems.
By Ed Jones for the April, 2008 The St. Georgian The next time you marvel at the harmonious peals of the St. George’s Bell Choir, with nary a note out of order, keep in mind that the conductor is a retired lieutenant colonel from the Air Force Reserves. Surprised? Undoubtedly so were some of Lisa … Read more
The church in 1979 was divided – the new prayer book of 1979 was a point of contention along with that the realization that Morning Prayer was being relegated to a secondary position behind the Eucharist. The division affected other parts of church life, including a future renovation.
The reredos appeared in the 1870’s, changed position in 1925, removed completely 1954, refinished and put back up by 2000 and shifted forward in the next 10 years.
