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It is my great joy to welcome you! Your presence here is a gift. St. Columba’s is a lively community of faith engaged in many ministries. We’re glad you’ve found us and look forward to welcoming you and learning more about you! W...Read More ›
Sunday & Weekdays
Worship with us this Sunday Service Times: 8a, 9a and 11:15 Wee Worship at 9:15a All Sunday morning services include readings from scripture, a sermon, and communion. Communion in the Episcopal Church is bread (wafers in our case) and real wine. C...Read More ›
New Here?
It is my great joy to welcome you! Your presence here is a gift. St. Columba’s is a lively community of faith engaged in many ministries. If you are seeking … comfort and care in a time of personal crisis or need, a way to s...Read More ›
Vestry
The vestry is the agent and legal representative of the parish in all matters concerning its corporate property and the relations of the parish to its clergy. Vestry Members The vestry consists of the rector, the senior warden, the junior ward...Read More ›
Vestry Committees
There are currently seven standing committees of the vestry: The Finance & Property committee is chaired by the parish treasurer, who has the responsibility for maintaining all parish funds, receiving and disbursing monies in accordance with app...Read More ›
Delegates and Alternate Delegates
Diocesan delegates represent St. Columba’s at the annual diocesan convention, which brings together clergy and lay members from all 88 congregations under the Bishop’s leadership each January to decide the diocesan budget, elect members of var...Read More ›
Flower Delivery
CARE The Flower Delivery Ministry delivers small baskets of altar flowers to parishioners to mark the joy of a happy event, such as a birth or baptism, to give thanks for a special service to the church, or to offer sympathy and hope when there ...Read More ›
Good Shepherds
CARE The Good Shepherds ministry offers home-cooked meals to parishioners who have experienced illness or are in a time of transition. They serve as cooks, drivers or coordinators, and their ministry of hospitality provides meaningful connection...Read More ›
Healing Prayer Ministry
Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them (Isaiah 57.19) -The Healing Rite: Prayers for Healing Where can I come for Prayers for Healing? St Columba’s Healing Rite (Laying on of Hands and Prayers for Healing...Read More ›
Prayer Chain
CARE The Prayer Chain fulfills all prayer requests, offering individual prayers for those in need. CONTACT: MICHELE PRINCE | E-MAILRead More ›
Stephen Ministers
CARE The Stephen Ministry offers one-to-one, high quality care from a trained lay caregiver in a wide range of life’s more difficult situations including grief, divorce, job loss, illness, parenting challenges, spiritual crisis or depression. ...Read More ›
42nd Street Fellowship
CONNECT The 42nd Street Fellowship was founded more than 20 years ago as an affinity group for older singles, whether divorced, widowed, or never married. Most members today are retired. The group meets once a month for Sunday lunch at a variet...Read More ›
Coffee Hour Helpers
CONNECT A ministry focusing on hospitality and welcoming, the Coffee Hour Helpers make and serve refreshments on Sunday mornings. CONTACT: NANCY TWIST | E-MAILRead More ›
Fathers' Group
St. Columba’s Fathers’ Group offers men with children at home and recent empty-nesters a community where we learn how to use God’s tools to build and develop our lives as fathers and leaders of young people. Through both formal and informal ...Read More ›
Mothers' Group
The Mothers’ Group seeks to strengthen our faith by sharing our experiences as mothers, and meets in fellowship to discuss the realities of motherhood – both the challenges and the blessings – and to hear from guest speakers on t...Read More ›
Sticks-in-Stitches
CONNECT Sticks-in-Stitches gathers monthly to knit, crotchet or do other needlework projects, working individually but often as a group on projects for the Water Ministry, pastoral care and other church ministries. [module:cb-People:63:horizo...Read More ›
Bulletin and Connections for February 4, 2024
posted on Feb 2, 2024Watch our Live Stream and past Forums Pledge/Give 8am bulletin - February 4th 9am bulletin - February 4th 11am bulletin - February 4th Announcements and Events for February 4th Wee Worship bulletin
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Bulletin and Connections for January 28, 2024
posted on Jan 26, 2024Catch up on all this week's activities ...Services at 8a, 9am, 11:15am, with Wee Worship at 9:15am. Watch our Live Stream and past ForumsPledge/Give 8am bulletin - January 28th 9am bulletin - January 28th 11am bulletin - January 28th Announcement...
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Bulletin and Connections for January 21, 2024
posted on Jan 19, 2024Watch our Live Stream and past ForumsPledge/Give 8am bulletin - January 21st 9am bulletin - January 21st 11am bulletin - January 21st Announcements and Events for January 21st Wee Worship bulletin
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Bulletin and Connections for January 14, 2024
posted on Jan 12, 2024Watch our Live Stream and past ForumsPledge/Give 8am bulletin - January 14th 9am bulletin - January 14th 11am bulletin - January 14th Connections - January 14thWee Worship bulletin
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Embracing and Expanding in Worship
posted on Jan 10, 2024Beloveds, Happy Epiphany! There is much we can learn from the wise people who went bearing gifts to Jesus and his family. Something I learn from these wise people is that we need guiding lights! God helps lights to settle on the horizon to guide u...
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Racial Justice Pilgrimage to Alabama
posted on Oct 19, 2023Racial Justice Pilgrimage to Alabama February 15-19, 2024 A parish pilgrimage to historically significant sites in our country's struggle for racial justice is planned for President's Day weekend 2024. Open to adults and high-school age youth, t...
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Prayers for the Holy Land Compline | Tuesday, October 17
posted on Oct 17, 2023Beloveds, We carry a heaviness, fear, and grief as we hear of the terror in Israel and Palestine. Each day brings more headlines with rising numbers of deaths and increasing violence. Along with other Christian leaders in the Holy Land, Archbisho...
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Vestry Elections 2023
posted on Oct 12, 2023Thank you to all standing in our vestry elections! Voting will begin on Thursday, October 26th, and continue until our Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 12th. Read more about the candidates, including bios and statements, here. Vestry candidates ...
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Season of Creation
posted on Oct 3, 2023In this four week book group hosted and moderated by St. Columba’s Environment Committee, we will discuss “Saving Us” , by Katharine Hayhoe. We will explore how to navigate conversations around climate change, the role of our Christian value...
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Art All Night!
posted on Sep 20, 2023St. Columba’s will be participating, along with Tenleytown Main Street in the DC-wide Art All Night event on September 30 from 7 - 9:30pm. This celebration of visual and performing arts showcases the diverse talents of DC’s creative community...
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Sunday September 10: Back to regular service times (but this week, we have ICE CREAM!)
posted on Sep 5, 2023Welcome back to a new Program year! All Sunday morning services include readings from scripture, a sermon, and communion. Communion in the Episcopal Church is bread (wafers in our case) and real wine. Communion will be served at stations around th...
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Juneteenth with Stirring the Waters
posted on Jun 8, 2023Stirring the Waters would like to suggest some wonderful opportunities to celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday, June 17th. Here are a few local events: Support the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) and attend a Service of Interfaith Healing a...
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Join us in celebrating PRIDE in DC!
posted on Jun 1, 2023St. Columba’s will be participating in Capital Pride again this year! There are two opportunities for involvement. On Saturday, June 10th, join the Episcopal Diocese of Washington as we participate as a large group in the March. If you’d like ...
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Pentecost 23: What to Expect
posted on May 24, 20238am- This service will be a quieter and simpler celebration of the Pentecost; it will have the same feel and format as usual. 9:15am Combined Service with Baptism- The 9am Church and 9:15am Wee Worship services come together for a celebration...
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Join us for Columba Day June 4th!
posted on May 17, 2023Join us on Sunday, June 4th as we celebrate our patron saint through worship, music, food, fellowship and fun. We will have DC natives from the Crush Funk Brass play for us outside on the Labyrinth. Food from local businesses and caterers will be ...
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Thank you all who supported Rebuilding Together!
posted on May 3, 2023During nearly 24 hours of work split between Saturday, April 22 and Saturday, April 29, 51 St. Columbans + Friends of St. Columbans worked at Ms Butler's home to make the improvements listed below. Check out some before and after photos and some ...
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An invitation to a Holy Lent
posted on Feb 14, 2023As we enter this season of Lent, St. Columba's will be hosting a variety of special opportunities as we prepare ourselves for Easter. This Lent, we will have a special focus on the theme of Repent and Repair with our guest speakers, small groups...
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The Future Church
posted on Feb 9, 2023I write to provide an update on some master planning work going on behind the scenes. Our Process In 2020, the Vestry convened a Master Planning Committee and, per our strategic plan, Live God’s Love, charged this committee to “de...
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The Blue Side of Christmas
posted on Dec 14, 2022By Michele Prince Advent 2008 marks a turning point in my life. It was this time fourteen years ago when we received the news that our 12-year-old son Will had stage IV cancer. We spent Christmas Eve afternoon waiting for him to come out of an eme...
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Michael Lusignan Funeral
posted on Dec 9, 2022The funeral service for Michael Lusignan was held at St. Columba’s on December 3rd. If you would like to give in honor of Michael to St. Columba’s, gifts may be directed towards St. Columba’s Memorial Fund.
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Playing on the Dump with Cami Caudill
posted on Apr 29, 2021Examine what it means to approach conversations with grace and a spirit of generosity livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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A Cup Under A Waterfall With The Rev. David Griswold
posted on Apr 28, 2021We can find God's presence in a trickle as well as a gush. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Half Coherent Prayer with Elliott May
posted on Apr 27, 2021What does it mean to pray? Join Elliott in thinking through types of prayer. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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God is Love! with Rev Joshua Daniel, Ph D
posted on Apr 26, 2021Join Joshua as he reads this coming Sunday's lesson and invites our imaginative powers to help bring this text to life! #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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"Throwing My Hat in the Ring" with John Rusciolelli
posted on Apr 25, 2021Faith Story Series, April 25, 2021
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"The Life that Saves Us" with the Rev. Amy Molina-Moore
posted on Apr 25, 2021"The Life that Saves Us" with the Rev. Amy Molina-Moore sermon text
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Going Gray with Jennifer Turner
posted on Apr 23, 2021Embracing my gray hair and the privilege of aging. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Envisioning New Ways of Being Church with The Rev. Susan Flanders
posted on Apr 22, 2021The Hard Work of New Birth. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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"That Easter day with joy was bright" feat. members of the St. Columba Singers and the Gallery Choir
posted on Apr 20, 2021Hymn 193 vs. 1, 2 and 5 That Easter day with joy was bright Puer Nobis; sung by Members of the Gallery Choir and St. Columba Singers
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"Faith Through Struggle" with Jane Ward
posted on Apr 19, 2021"Faith Through Struggle" with Jane Ward, April 18, 2021
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The Biggest Pause Button Ever with Karen Sprague
posted on Apr 19, 2021Karen spends a moment reflecting on the pandemic and how sometimes God uses the things we least expect to focus us and bring us closer. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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"Easter is hard" with the Rev. Ledlie Laughlin
posted on Apr 18, 2021Sermon text for "Easter is hard" with the Rev. Ledlie Laughlin
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Easter Eggs & Joy with The Rev. Kristen Tossell Pitts
posted on Apr 16, 2021A Easter Message of joy and love from The Rev. Kristen Tossell Pitts, Chaplain at Washington Episcopal School #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Resurrection, A Holy Mystery with The Rev. Susan Flanders
posted on Apr 15, 2021What does it say about the man who was raised? #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Clear Seeing with Abigail Gorman
posted on Apr 14, 2021To be free from fear, we merely need to be in the present moment. Then we can see clearly. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Meeting the Risen Christ with The Rev. Ledlie Laughlin
posted on Apr 13, 2021Help Ledlie Preach Easter. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Embracing the Soil with The Rev. Ragan Sutterfield
posted on Apr 12, 2021How did the ancient Hebrews talk about the soil? And how does that affect our knowledge of ourselves and our worship of God? To register for this forum please click here: https://onrealm.org/columba/PublicRegistrations/Ev... #livegodslove #Columba...
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"On the Path of Resurrection" with the Rev. Joshua Daniel, Ph.D.
posted on Apr 11, 2021"On the Path of Resurrection" with the Rev. Joshua Daniel, Ph.D., April 11, 2021
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A DIVINE MESSAGE with Sandy Mackenzie
posted on Apr 9, 2021Sandy shares a story of Faith. #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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Behold the Onion with Elliott May
posted on Apr 8, 2021Join Elliott to look for God in unexpected places #livegodslove #ColumbaDailyBreadDB #dailyinspiration #dailyprayers #livegodslove #inspiration
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