Worship with Western

We’ll be worshiping together with our friends at Western Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 4th at Western (2401 Virginia Ave NW). There will be no service at Pilgrims that morning, as we’ll all be down at Western for a service with communion and the Rev. Charles Van Gorder preaching.

There is a parking garage off the 24th St entrance. Western is located just a couple of blocks away from the Foggy Bottom Metro station.

Details on how to participate virtually are available at www.westernpresbyterian.org.

Holy Week Worship Services

Come be a part of all the special Holy Week services with Pilgrims and Western Presbyterian Church.

Palm Sunday will be at Western Presbyterian (2401 Virginia Ave NW). We’ll meet early at 10:15am for some coffee and snacks and to make protest posters for our Palm Procession. Then, we’ll gather around 10:45am at the entrance off 24th St to pray and sing and process around the building. Hopefully this all will have us in the sanctuary around 11am for worship together.

If you would like to participate in this service virtually, click here to register for the zoom link, or visit the Western Facebook page where the service is streamed live.
**Please note, there will be no worship service at 2201 P St on 4/13.

Maundy Thursday worship will be at Pilgrims at 7pm together with our Western Pres friends. We’ll share in our tradition of supper and storytelling. Bring some finger foods to share, as we will gather around tables to feast on scripture, song, and snacks.

Good Friday is a time when we hold open space in the sanctuary. Instead of a formal service, we’ll have a quiet space in the middle of the day where you can come and pray, or walk the labyrinth, or catch your breath. The sanctuary at Pilgrims will be open from 11am - 1pm.

Easter Sunday worship will be at Pilgrims at 11am. Come for special music and flowers and fellowship together.

Easter Flowers - Order Yours Today!

If you would like to order flowers this year to share in the sanctuary on Easter morning and to take home with you later, now is the time to make your easter order!

You can order lilies, hyacinths, and/or tulips, at $16 each.

Click here to make your payment online and in the memo line write the kind of flowers and if they are in honor or in memory of someone.

Or you can fill out this form and bring it to worship on Sunday with your check or cash.

Please submit your order and payment by April 6th.

Issues Among Us - March 29

We’re going to the Renwick!

On Saturday, March 29th at 2pm, meet at the Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania and 17th, NW) to see their new exhibit “We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists.”

The artists featured in We Gather at the Edge honor the Black story quilt tradition with work that envisions a more just and connected world. The exhibition highlights SAAM’s recent acquisition of quilts from the collection of Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and celebrates her legacy as the founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. 

Click here to learn more about the exhibit.

Lent with Pilgrims and Western

This Lent, together with our friends at Western Presbyterian Church, we will be working our way through Jesus' parables in the Gospel of Luke each week. But here's the twist, we're going to put those parables in conversation with stories from our own time - from poetry, literature, art, our own lived experiences, or any other way we can imagine to tell and re-tell the story. The worship planning team would love to invite YOU to share. Sign up to be a liturgist on one of the Sundays during Lent and Erin will be glad to work with you to prepare a parable of your own to go with the lectionary-assigned parable of the day. Or, come to one of our scheduled Wednesday supper and discussion gatherings over at Western Pres (2401 Virginia Ave NW) where we'll really dig into the tales, as we dig into a fine meal, too!

Now is the time to start reading the parables, and imagining new ways to share them. Take a look at the assigned readings and consider how you might contribute this Lent! Erin would love to talk with you about it when she's back from Cuba!

Mar 9 - Luke 10:25-42 - Parable of the Good Samaritan

Mar 16 - Luke 13:1-9, 31-35 - parable of fig tree that bore no fruit

Mar 23 - Luke 15:1-32 Parables of lost sheep, coin, prodigal son.

Mar 30 - Luke 16:19-31 Parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

April 6 - Luke 18:31—19:10 Healing a blind man, meeting Zacchaeus. Jesus came to seek and save the lost.

Looking forward to spending an engaging Lent together this year.

Bruce Blanchard Memorial Service - 3/8 at 2pm

Pilgrims,

Mary Josie and the whole Blanchard family invite you to A Service of Witness to the Resurrection and a Celebration of the Life of Bruce Blanchard on Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 2pm at Church of the Pilgrims. There will be a reception in the Fellowship Hall after the service. You can also watch the service online, using this link.

(Meeting ID: 821 9562 8218, Passcode: 838034)

A visitation will be held on Friday, March 7th from 4pm - 6:30pm at Joseph Gawler's Son's Funeral home, located at 5130 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20016.

Click here to read Bruce's obituary.

Please continue to hold all of Bruce's family and friends in your prayers.

 

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.