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.
In the end of the project in 2014, the church had renovated its kitchen to support new demands on its use and also created a substantial sum to reduce the debt from the Nave Renovation. The latter debt was paid before the end of 2014 (August).
“History is now!” Many historians avoid writing a history of recent times with the idea that there needs to be a period between the end of certain events and the writing of history. However, it is helpful for our time and later to make a stab at themes that run through the period
Such is the case from 2011-16. The thread running through the period is that St. George’s promotes justice and reconciliation. Justice involves promoting fairness that has been altogether missing. Justice for those felt the effects of racism (service on reconciliation), justice for those experience food insecurity (Table), justice for those who experience calamities (Haiti earthquake). In all of these the church builds relationships and provides steps which offer both hope and sustenance.
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 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.
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.
6 former residents of the graveyard were reinterred in 2002 in a ceremony performed by Charles Sydnor. The remains were found earlier in Market Square during excavation.
The Third Annual Lutheran-Episcopal Covenant Accessibility Project was completed on June 7th. A 30-foot access ramp was built on Bounds Street in Spotsylvania County.
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
It began at a rustic spot called Salt Log Camp, just off Virginia’s Blue Ridge Parkway. Thirty-two miles and 3 ½ days later, it ended on the upper reaches of the James River.
That was the late-July game plan for an Appalachian Trail pilgrimage that served as the “culminating experience” for seven youth members of St. George’s. There were plans for hiking, singing, playing and praying—a time, as team leader Nick Cadwallender put it, “to uncover and discover the people we are, where we have been, where we are going.”