End of Summer Guest Preachers

Please join us in welcoming a pair of fabulous guest preachers the next two weeks during worship at Pilgrims!

On Sunday, August 25th, Elder (and Presbytery Vice-Moderator Elect) Jesy Littlejohn will be joining us! Jesy (they/them) is a member at Oaklands Presbyterian Church, works as the Director of Operations for More Light Presbyterians, was a commissioner to the most recent GA in Salt Lake City earlier this summer, and does a whole lot of other churchy and presbytery stuff to keep them busy!

On Sunday, September 1st, Elder (and Candidate for Ordination who already passed all their ordination exams, WHAT?!) Flanny Flanigan will be preaching. Flanny (they/them) is a Pilgrim, and Resident Minister at Georgetown University, and a Chaplain in the INOVA Hospital System, and also does a whole lot of fun stuff to keep busy.

We are so excited to welcome both of these ministry leaders to share in worship at Pilgrims. Erin, however, will be missing all the fun, as she will be on vacation 8/23 - 9/2.

Homecoming - 9/8

Mark your calendars now! Pilgrims

Homecoming will be on Sunday, September 8th!

We'll worship together with special music and extra fun, then bring a dish to share and stay after for a potluck good time!

Have you started to think about what food you will bring for the party?

Hope to see you there!

Community Cookie Bake-Off - 8/11

Our Next Summer Fun activity will be a Cookie Bake-Off on Sunday, August 11th after worship.

You are invited to make your very best, most famous, most delicious, or most love-infused cookies and bring them to church. After worship, we'll set up outside and taste-test, and invite others to help us taste-test! Together we'll pick a cookie champion, and obviously there will be a fabulous prize!

Start sifting through your recipe books now, friends...

Fall Worship Planning - 8/7

If you love worship, and you have some ideas, or enjoy listening to other folks' ideas, we'd love for you to come and be a part of planning worship for this fall at Pilgrims! We're going to meet in person, in the Bird Room, on Wednesday, August 7th at 6pm. Hope to see you there!

Backpacks for Friendship Place - 8/4

Once again this summer we'll be stuffing backpacks full of school supplies for students participating in Friends Place's programming. We're going to go ahead an buy all the goods, then in worship on August 4th, together, we'll stuff the sacks. If you'd like to make a donation toward the purchase of the backpacks and supplies, you can do so on our website (be sure to select "Backpacks Friendship Place from the drop-down menu).

Pilgrims Farmer's Market Fun - 7/21

It's time for our next Summer Fun event! This Sunday, 7/21, after worship we'll all go over to the Dupont Farmer's Market together. Maybe you get some fresh veggies, maybe you talk to a vendor about their business model, maybe we all buy snacks and sit in the grass in the circle and eat and enjoy the day? The possibilities are endless! Let's go see what fun we can find together!

Open Table Cook-Out 7/7

Open Table Cook Out July 7th

Join us after worship on Sunday, July 7th for our annual Open Table Cook Out. We'll light up the grill and share a meal with our neighbors.

Click here to sign up and to tell us what you'll bring to the party!

June Issues Among Us - 6/26

It’s an Issues Among Us Outing to Friendship Place! Come take an inside look at another Friendship Place facility and learn about the programs at their Welcome Center. On Wednesday, June 26th at 5:30pm you are invited for an inside peek at Friendship Place’s flagship program. This will be a little more DIY than our usual Issues Among Us outings, as it’s not our event, but we think it is such a great opportunity to get out and learn about the programs and offerings of FP and to see how our support of their programs makes a difference.

You need to RSVP for this event.

Please RSVP by email to crutledge@friendshipplace.org.