Worship with us this Sunday

Stay up to date with all St. Columba’s events by visiting the calendar on our website!

About our services: The liturgy we are using until Advent is an experimental liturgy at the very beginning of its development, used by only a handful of churches. At the heart of it is an interest to use Scripture to name, celebrate, and be convicted by the many descriptions and purposes of God that have often been neglected in Christian worship—specially in naming and worshiping the divine feminine (as it is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), in emphasizing the importance and role of women in biblical texts, and in reorienting worship around its more natural environs (think: more interest in the ancient, Middle Eastern storytelling around financial, social-political, spiritual liberation; and less centrism around imperial, Western, capitalistic themes).

The liturgy for this season and the translation of Biblical texts comes from three major texts, all used with permission: The Rev. Dr. Wilna Gafney’s A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church (Church Publishing, 2021); from work developed by the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music; and from the Episcopal Church’s antiracism training manual, Seeing the Face of God in Each Other (2011).

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The funeral service for Rev. Louise Lusignan will be at St. Columba’s on Saturday, October 22 at 2 pm with a reception to follow. The service will also be livestreamed on our YouTube page.

It's time for this year's parish elections! The candidate slate is found below. We encourage you to look through the election brochure here which includes photographs and short statements from each candidate, as well as information on the nomination and election process.

Jackson-Reed High School students are planning their first affordable housing rally of the new school year on Saturday, October 22nd from 9 -11 am – and they’d love to welcome Summit kids to join them. GDS students also will be participating. Meet at the corner of Chesapeake and Nebraska, where students will be playing music, hearing from a few speakers, and holding up signs calling for building affordable housing in Ward 3, where we live. Later in the morning, students will offer some basic training in canvassing, followed by a short canvassing excursion in Tenleytown to ask our neighbors what they think about the need for affordable housing in our neighborhood. Questions? Contact Elizabeth Vaden (vadenfamily@verizon.net), St. Columba’s WIN Core Team.

St. Columbus is excited to be starting to host a coffee hour for adults in their 40s and 50s who are single, divorced, or separated. Come hang out with old friends and make some new ones. The coffee hour is going to be from 10:00 to 10:55 on the second floor in the Azzi Living Room on the fourth Sunday of every month. With any questions, contact Molly Work at molly.l.work@gmail.com.

There will be games, pumpkin painting and candy! If you'd like to help, please sign up here. Also, if you would like to donate candy, please bring a bag to the Common starting this Sunday and put it in the big purple boot! Contact coordinator, Lindsay Pomponi, if you have any questions!

Participant preference will determine whether the group will meet in person or by Zoom. Register here and note your preferred meeting format. 

The facilitators are Sarah Laughlin and Susan DeWitt, and Michele Prince, Pastoral Care Coordinator, is the staff contact. Email Michele at mprince@columba.org if you have questions or need help registering.

Join parishioners, neighbors and friends for a simple meal, fellowship and connection. Dinner will be available from 5-7 pm. Cost for an adult is $15, child $10, and there is a family cap of $45. Registration and tickets are available in Realm here.

Come for the entire time, while the children are in choir, or stop by on your way home from work. Invite a friend or purchase a meal for someone. We are recruiting for servers, dishwashers and table clearers for future Wednesday Night Suppers. Reach out to Courtney Hundley chundley@columba.org and let her know of your interest.

All parishioners, especially youth grade 6 and up and their families, are encouraged to sign up for this fun intergenerational activity. No experience necessary. All proceeds will support our Youth programs. Sign up here for slots to bake together in our church kitchen.

Striving to be an antiracist church invites self-reflection, individually and collectively. In Quaker practice, Friends employ queries to engage in self-examination and remind themselves of the ideals they seek to attain. In the words of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, queries serve “as a framework within which we assess our convictions and examine, clarify, and consider prayerfully the direction of our lives and the life of the community.”

In our quest to become an antiracist church, we will be using queries during the 2022-2023 church year in our own way, posing a new query each month and offering several ways adults, youth and children can engage with it during the month (including silent reflection during worship and opportunities for discussion). Find more information here.

Our pastoral team is here to help with everything: emergencies, spiritual guidance and direction, and conversation. Visit this page or contact the Pastoral Team for more information.

Sunday Morning Bible Study - weekly at 10:15am in room 212 and on Zoom. Contact David Griswold for call-in instructions.

Wednesday Morning Bible Study - weekly at

10 am via Zoom. Contact David Griswold for call-in instructions.

Thursday Morning Bible Study - weekly at

9 am via Zoom. Contact Jon McBride for call-in instructions.