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GLC Calendar of Events

Please Join us for our regular weekly services Sundays at 10am. We would like to have you join us, whether visitors are in town for business - or pleasure, or just passing through, all are welcome! We especially welcome those returning home from overseas deployments, or on duty at our Nation's Capitol. Coffee and fellowship after the service.

Welcome Children! Parents, a Children’s Bulletin is provided. Canvas bags with crayons, books, and soft toys are in the Narthex to occupy young people during the service.

Scheduled Events at GLC

This week we pray for:
Delores & Larry Lentz Michelle Michaels
Rubye Kelley Clara Diefenbach
Jim Jordan Jody Eren
Juanita Ward Amelia Hinckley
Corrine Wark Richard Sperling
Martin Lippe Dean Pike
Jeff Bastuscheck Helen Schottler
Dorothy Nelson
J.T. Taylor, and all troops deployed around the world.

August Birthdays
Aug 14 Helen Rebholz
Aug 26 Dane Cooper
Aug 28 Charlie Clifford

NEXT WEEK’S SERVICE ASSISTANTS ARE:
August 1, 2010

Worship Assistant Collan Rosier
Usher/Reader Megan Clifford
Altar Guild Tomoko Kinoshita

A Wider Circle, a small nonprofit Washington organization,
Dedicated to helping individuals and families lift themselves out of poverty, is
urgently seeking basic household furniture to furnish the homes of families
in need and those transitioning from homeless shelters. Won't you please help by donating no longer needed beds, mattresses, cribs, strollers, chairs and
tables in your home? Please contact the organization at 301 608-3504 or by
E-Mail at furnish@awidercircle.org to arrange for a pick-up of your donation. You may drop off items, if your prefer, 7 days a week, at our Center for Community Service, 9159-C Brookville Road, Silver Spring, MD.
Thank you!

 

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CHURCH NEWS & NEEDS

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Sunday school meets in the fellowship hall 9am-9:45, October through May. If you would like to enroll your child, please contact Kay Swift or speak to her in person. We currently have classes for children 6 years old and younger.

GLC WOMEN’S GROUP
The GLC Women’s Group meets 7:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month for fellowship and to study Women and Redemption by Rosemary Ruether. New members are always welcome. Will not meet in June, July, or August.

GLC Choir Welcomes Singers, Musicians, Performers!

Our Choir is looking for new members, especially MEN! If you enjoy music and fellowship, please consider joining. The choir rehearses each Sunday morning at 9:00 in the Sanctuary. Choir meets from September through May. See Pat Henry before services for more information on service and joining in with others.

Second & Fifth Sundays of every Month– G.R.A.T.E. PATROL MINISTRY.

GLC members and friends prepare sandwiches and packs individual bag meals for the needy of our community. Join us these Sundays to assist in this congregational ministry. We prepare the bags after the 10:00 service. The more help we have, the quicker we finish.

ALTAR GUILD VOLUNTEERS WELCOME!

Altar Guild is always looking for a "few good friends" to sign up for volunteer opportunities at upcoming services. If you are available and willing to serve, you may respond to Cindy DeGrood Morrison. You set up the altar for worship and communion and clean the chalice and altar after the service.

COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Are you a local student, or a student studying locally? GLC is looking for your help, and want you to feel welcome in a "home away from home." We have plenty of volunteer opportunities for upcoming services, or if you are interested we sponsor many vounteer community and church oriented activities. If you are a musician, then we would enjoy your addition to our services. So come and join us at any of our church services, and mention your interest to help to Pastor Gaines. We'd like to say hello and welcome you to the GLC family.

COFFEE HOUR HOSTS

Please think about volunteering to host a coffee hour. It is easy and it is fun! Janet Sharp or Helen Rebholz will be happy to show you where supplies are and how to set up the beverages. A sign-up chart is on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall by the coffee window.

FLOWERS
The 2010 Flower Chart is posted on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. Please sign up to honor birthdays, anniversaries, for memorials, or for the glory of God. Flowers add so much to the service. You may bring flowers with you or contact a florist which ever you prefer. If you are bringing flowers and need to arrange them in our vases, please arrive about 9:00a.m.and see the member of the altar guild. If you are bringing pre-arranged bouquets with you in vases on Sunday morning, please arrive no later than 9:30a.m. so the Altar Guild may place them. Two large bouquets are needed, one for each side of the altar.

If you request it, Johnsons Florists deliver on Sundays before 9:30 a.m. (202-244-6100).

 

 

To learn more about our Music Ministry, [Click Here]

If your computer can play mp3 audio files, you can listen to a sample of the range of music typically included with our regular Sunday Church Services. This piece is a wonderful duet by our own Music Director, Pat Henry on our church organ and by GLC member, Rick Melrose on flute... please [Click Here] and enjoy. (File size is approximately 1.7 Megabytes.)

DIRECTIONS:

Georgetown Lutheran is located at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Volta Place, in the heart of the community of Georgetown, in the District of Washington, DC.

By bus, numbers 31, Potomac Park; 32, Archives; 36, Friendship Heights; D2, D6, and the Golden Triangle Circulator all stop one half block from the church at Q street.

From Virginia:  Cross the Key Bridge, turning right onto M Street at the traffic light at the end of the bridge. And then make left on 33rd Street. After approximately five blocks, make a right on Volta Street. GLC will be on your left at the end of the block on the corner next to Wisconsin Ave.   

From Maryland: Take Wisconsin Avenue (highway 355) south from the I-495 Beltway. Georgetown Lutheran is approximately one mile south of the Washington National Cathedral.

From the District of Columbia: Take Wisconsin Avenue (highway 355) North from M street in downtown Georgetown. Georgetown Lutheran is approximately 5 blocks North and on your left.

Street parking is available in front of the Church on Wisconsin avenue and on neighborhood streets near the church. 

Georgetown Lutheran Church is a Reconciling in Christ Congregation. All are welcome regardless of their religious affiliation, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or identity.

Thank you for visiting! Please contact our webmaster if you have suggestions or difficulties in accessing or reading the GLC website. Our goal is to meet the needs of the GLC congregation, prospective members, visitors and the Georgetown local community.

Georgetown Lutheran Church Officers

President:
David Lippe
lippedk@aol.com

Vice-President:
Dane Cooper
danecooper@msn.com

Treasurer:
John Juilfs
Juilfsj_glc@verizon.net

Financial Secretary:
Jill Schwartz
jillannsch@aol.com

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Georgetown Lutheran Church is a member of the Metropolitan Washington, DC Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).