This Week's Announcements

Support the Youth Mission Trip!
The mission trip is coming up in a month and the youth group will be headed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the last week of June. (They didn’t have staff for our West Virginia site, so we have been rerouted to PA). We appreciate the current and previous support from the parish and invite your continued support. You can attend the post mission trip dinner on July 20 at 5 pm in Miller Hall - tickets are $15 and available now! You can also buy a raffle ticket to win dinner for eight with Bishop Mariann in her home - those tickets are also $15. Also available for purchase are personalized hot/cold cups supplied by our own Madison Brady. Regular red or blue cups are at $17 and personalized cups are $22. Dinner and Bishop raffle tickets are for sale now and you can find youth group members after church in the narthex from now until the post-trip dinner. The July 20 dinner is when the Bishop dinner raffle winner is announced. Please contact Jessica or Rebekah with questions. 

Let's Make it a Potato Pentecost This Sunday
This Sunday, the day we celebrate Pentecost, we are asking folks to bring in 10 pounds of potatoes or onions (or both)! St. Matthew’s, one of our neighboring Episcopal churches, has a monthly food pantry that serves over 200 families each month. Along with non-perishable necessities, they also give out produce as available - which is where St. George's comes in. To support this need of our neighbors, The Justice League would love to see St. George's become the "potato and onion" church on the first or second Sunday of each month. We will continue our support for the Bowie Food Pantry and move that collection to the 4th Sunday.
 
Ministry Fair This Sunday
Please join us during the hospitality hour this Sunday for the Ministry Fair. This is your opportunity to learn more about all of the ministries that keep St. George’s running. Representatives are available from each ministry to talk about their ministry and sign up anyone who wants to participate. If you have ever had a question about how to become a Lay Eucharistic Ministers or help out the Justice League, this is your chance to get that question answered! 

Praying the Psalms
The focus for our adult spiritual formation program for this summer (June 1 to July 31) is Praying the Psalms. There are two ways of participating: on a daily basis with listings of psalms provided by Forward Movement and its Good Book Club; and/or by taking part in a series of workshops that will highlight various modalities for praying the psalms. Sign up for the program HERE. We suggest that you use any text of the psalms that you prefer such as the Book of Common Prayer (or any other prayer book); or your favorite Bible translation such as the NRSV, etc. Also, there are four stand-alone workshops on the psalms offered:
 • Tuesday, June 10 at 7:00 pm on Zoom for Praying the Psalms with Anglican Prayer Beads. This is a contemplative method of praying the psalms.
 • Monday, June 23 at 7:00 pm at St. George’s for Praying the Psalms with Chant. We will use a simplified method for giving voice and embodiment to the words of a psalm using the prayer book as well as other types of sources.
 • Friday, July 11, 5:30-7:30pm at the Bowie Senior Center and Saturday July 12, 9:30am at Brookside Gardens, Wheaton to Pray the Psalms while walking a Labyrinth or using a hand-held labyrinth. These will be free in-person events at local labyrinths— stay tuned for further details.
 • Monday, July 21 at St. George’s for Praying the Psalms with Postures to Pray with Body, Heart and Soul. We will explore a range of types of gestures and postures.
If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Connie, Karen Horrocks, Jocelyn Tidwell, or Terry Doyle.