St. George Episcopal Church - Maple Valley, WA

08/29/2026

Bring your backpack to church on Sunday, Sept. 13!

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

Our September Worship Service Schedule is here!

08/29/2026

Bringing little ones to church? We love kids in church! We also have a nursery that little ones love.

08/28/2026

Noonday Prayer with The Rev. Elizabeth Holland- Feast of Gallaudet and Syle (in ASL and English)

August 27 is a special feast day in The Episcopal Church, set aside to remember the Rev. Thomas Gallaudet (1822–1902) and the Rev. Henry Winter Syle (1846–1890), two people whose lives helped shape the Church’s ministry with and among Deaf people in the United States.

In 1852, Rev. Gallaudet founded St. Ann’s Church for the Deaf in New York City (still active today), which became a beacon to the Deaf community and helped seed Deaf ministries and churches across the country. One of its parishioners was Henry Winter Syle, who felt a call to ordained ministry and, in 1876, became the first Deaf person ordained to the Diaconate in The Episcopal Church and in the United States. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1884. Rev. Syle founded All Souls’ Church for the Deaf in Philadelphia.
Together, Gallaudet, Syle, and other Episcopal leaders also helped establish the Conference of Church Workers Among the Deaf in 1881, which later became the Episcopal Conference of the Deaf. Their work helped establish a continuing tradition of Deaf ministry and leadership within The Episcopal Church.
Their witness reminds us that accessibility is about more than providing accommodations. It is also about recognizing the gifts, leadership, language, culture, and the full dignity of people who have too often been excluded and marginalized.

As we remember Gallaudet and Syle today, we give thanks for the ways God has worked through Deaf people and those who have accompanied them, while also asking where barriers to belonging still exist.
Their lives remind us that the Church is at its best when everyone has access not only to a seat in the pew, but to the baptismal font, the altar, the pulpit, and the work of ministry.

“O Loving God, whose will it is that everyone should come to you and be saved: We bless your holy Name for your servants Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle, and we pray that you will continually move your Church to respond in love to the needs of all people; through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”
— Collect for the Feast Day of Rev. Thomas Gallaudet and Rev. Henry Winter Syle

Noonday prayer - Feast of Gallaudet and Syle (in ASL and English)...

08/24/2026

💜 In case you missed it this Sunday…💚

Continuing with Mother Bonnie’s theme of ʻohana, a family of belonging and responsibility in which nobody, nobody, nobody is left behind or forgotten, Deacon Laura reflected on Jesus’ question to his disciples and to us:

“Who do you say that I am?”

Our deepest answer is not simply spoken with our lips; it becomes visible in who we are becoming together.

“If we say Jesus is Messiah, what might someone learn about Jesus by watching us? Would they see mercy? Compassion? Different gifts honored? People making room at the table? A community in which nobody is left behind or forgotten?”

Like Peter, we do not need to have everything figured out before Jesus begins building with us. We are still learning, still being transformed, and still widening our hearts. We are becoming one body in Christ-an ʻohana in which we do not merely make room for one another; we belong to one another.

May our answer be visible in our bodies, our gifts, our relationships, our mercy, our welcome, and the kind of Church we are becoming together. 💜💚

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