The Koinonia School of Race & Justice presents the first of three spring lectures. Dr. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley will explore the residual effects of racism and the correlation of education and poverty. Join us for worship at 5:30 pm, dinner at 6:30 pm, lecture at 7:30 pm. Your donation of $20 includes both dinner and the…
Saturday March 19, 2016 | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Do you have a favorite scripture that gives you hope or that you read for inspiration? Do you enjoy receiving cards, letters, and words of encouragement from others? Do you ever want to share words of courage and strength with others but can’t find the…
Saturday, March 5, 2016, 9 am – 4 pm This one day retreat will provide resources and avenues for taking a deeper look at the way we nourish our bodies through food, and our souls through contemplating the things of God. Our goal is to inform and encourage participants in ways to live active and…
Please join us, Ash Wednesday, February 10th, for our 7:00 a.m. Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. Receiving the mark of ashes on our foreheads is a Christian practice to acknowledge our humanity and begin the 40-day season of Lent.
As we prepare to follow Jesus through his Passion and his Resurrection during this Lenten season, you may find that it is a time for simplifying and slowing down. Perhaps a time to even ask ourselves, “What is really important?” and “What keeps me from it?” Based on Jesus’ teaching, the Church has prescribed three…
Sat. 4 pm – Sun. 4 pm, March 19-20, 2016 Have your dreams for the future been shattered by the experience of a major loss? Perhaps a loved one has died or you’ve lost a meaningful relationship from other circumstances. Perhaps disability has forced you to give up on a dream. When dreams die there…
In Scotland and northern parts of England there is an ancient practice of folks going from house to house wishing each other a good year ahead. In the spirit of that hospitality, we offer this prayer: “This day is a new day that has never been before. This year is a new year, the opening door. Enter,…
Offered this week, January 5 – 8, 2016, at Virginia Union, in the L. Douglas Wilder Library: Human Trafficking is active throughout the world today, as it has been for millennia. How do we understand this scourge as Christians, and how can we continue to address it, its perpetrators and its victims? This course is…
This time of year it’s peaceful here on the Hill. This time between Christmas and New Year is a time for travel for some of us, a time to catch up, or to catch our breath after a very busy Fall. Although the Main Gate is closed during the week of Dec. 28 – Jan. 4,…
Celebrate His coming into the world to heal us, and, by His light, transform our metropolitan city. This Advent, the lighting of the candles will commemorate our prayer intentions for healing the past and bringing hope for the future of our metropolitan city. It also serves to reinforce our prayers of gratitude for the years past…