By Ed Jones St. George’s brought Mac and Barbara Willis together almost six decades ago. He was a Baptist teen-ager who lived down the street—the son of a life deacon of the church. She was an Episcopal girl from Caroline County, who enjoyed “going to town.” And the youth group at St. George’s, hosted by … Read more
More pictures of the exterior church leading up to the current time.
Music at St. George’s has always had the organ at the forefront leading the congregation in hymns and providing the organist a chance to sample the wide organ repertoire in the prelude and postlude. This is a short history of organs at St. George’s and the beginning of a music series.
This is the complete set of images from the 1888 photo shoot with pictures taken in 1997 when the church was undergoing renovation as part of AIM 2000.
Timbers used to create Christ Church, Spotsylvania in 1841 were used to created a 6 foot cross that were presented to a new mission church in Stafford in the 1990’s. The mission church eventually failed and the cross went back to Christ Episcopal. In 2016, Christ Church celebrated their 175th anniversary.
Editor’s note – A. Wilson Embrey, Jr was better known as “Rooter” Embrey. Rooter was quite a character as this letter testifies. One of the stories Charles Sydnor told me was about Rooter’s fund raising method. He would call up a friend (Person B) and tell a story about another person (Person A). He would … Read more
For 1500 years, the image of St. George has been an inspiration for not only countries (England), churches (Greek, Coptic) but also for various enterprises, such as healing, agriculture. We think of the image of St. George’s dressed in knight regalia, typically riding a white horse lance in hand slaying a groveling dragon, the classic … Read more
“I will give you peace and quietness.” ~ I Chronicles 16:11 2016 is the 30th year of Shrine Mont retreats for the church. The first was May 15-17, 1987 organized by then Curate Judy Fleming. Reservations were made for 30 people. In 2016, the number had risen sharply to 218 people . The Parish newsletter … Read more
At the Vestry Retreat in 1989, the Vestry approved a Commission system which in philosophy and basic structure survives to this day. No longer would commissions be led by only Vestry members. The purposes of the reorganization were to : 1. broaden the leadership pool 2. strengthen management of the church 3. set clearer directions … Read more
Here is the bulletin from the service: [pdf-embedder url=”http://history.churchsp.org/wp-content/uploads/rededicationstgeorges1981.pdf”]