June 11th - Join us for PRIDE!

Join us for PRIDE 2022!

The 2022 Capital Pride Parade is on Saturday, June 11th. The route has changed this year, so it will be ending right near Pilgrims. It kicks off over near 15th and T at 3pm. A group of Presbyterians from all over the DC Area will be marching in the parade together. If you are interested in marching, please click this link to sign up for more info.

At Pilgrims, we’ll be providing hospitality at the end of the parade. The church will be open from 4pm - 8pm for restrooms, charging phones, water, first aid, and just getting out of the heat. You are welcome to come and stop by! If you’re interested in volunteering at church to provide hospitality, please sign up here.

Fun with Revelation: Bible Study on Sunday Mornings

This Easter Season felt like the perfect time to read about seals and scrolls and letters and many-eyed creatures, trumpets and angels, disasters and plagues, horse-lookin’-locusts, seven-headed beasts, and dragons, so, so much more. So, as Pastor Erin is preaching on Revelation in worship, we’ll also be studying the book in our Sunday Morning Bible Study Class. Using Dr. Greg Carey’s book, “Faithful and True: A Study Guide to the Book of Revelation” we will discuss this vivid story bit by bit and vision by vision. Come and join us for the fun Sunday mornings at 10am in the Bird Room or on Zoom. To order a copy, get the Zoom link, or get more info about the class, contact Pastor Erin.

Memorial Service for Jack Womeldorf: 4/23 at 2pm

On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 2pm we will gather at Pilgrims for a Service of Witness to the Resurrection and Celebration of the Life of Jack Womeldorf.

This. service will be held in person with masks and distancing in the sanctuary, and will be shared online via Zoom. If you would like to register for the Zoom link, please click here.

You can view or download the worship bulletin here.

Dear Friends of Jack Womeldorf at Pilgrims,

There will be a memorial service for Jack Womeldorf on April 23 (Saturday) at 2pm.  I wanted to extend my personal invitation and  thanks to each of you who made up Jack’s church family.  Jack began attending the Church of the Pilgrims in Herb Meza’s and Willy Thompson’s days in 1968 and he continued participating in Sunday school and church virtually during Covid after we moved from DC to Norfolk.  Jack died on September 26, 2021 and on that day he reminded me that he hoped to have a memorial service at Pilgrims.  We had an outdoors funeral in Portsmouth, Virginia in October but attempts to do a memorial service at Pilgrims was postponed twice by Covid.   Though Covid is still with us, we are going ahead this time.  For the safety of all, we are hoping that everyone is vaxed and boosted or else takes a rapid test on the day of the service.  Please wear a mask inside.

 I hope some of you will be able to come to the service and to the reception afterwards in the Bird Room.

Thanks to all of you for your friendship with Jack over his 53 years at Pilgrims.  The Church of the Pilgrims was a cornerstone of his life.  It was very important to him as were all of you in his church family.

 Ann Womeldorf

 

Let's make soup!

Join us in the Bird Room (with your mask) on Wednesday 3/23 at 6pm to make soup! We’ve heard from some of our hungry neighbors at Open Table on Sundays that they would love to share in a hot meal. So, we’re going to get together and make some soup. We’ll provide the ingredients and the recipes, you provide the effort and love. No need to RSVP, just show up!

 

Church of the Pilgrims is a congregation in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

We are also a member of More Light Presbyterians, welcoming the full participation of LGBTQ persons in the life and leadership of the congregation.