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October 20, 2026

Tuesday

Come to the Fall Festival!

Please support this event hosted by St. Dunstan’s for the whole community; it is an important ministry of the parish! As in previous years, we will have the Blue Breeze live band playing folk and classic rock tunes; moon bounce and activities for the kids; Halloween candy; food and beverages for purchase. Please invite your family, friends, and colleagues!

Also...We still need a couple of volunteers to help set-up, staff activities, and clean-up. Please click the button below to select a one-hour or two-hour slot. For more information, contact Julie Anderson.

Saturday's event also will include a "Show and Tell Party" for St. Dunstan's rain garden. The rain garden captures stormwater that flows down the hill from the parking lot and sends it into the ground, instead of to the creek. Native plants in the garden provide valuable habitat and food for local pollinators and the native shrubs on the hill have deep roots that prevent erosion as well as benefiting the local fauna.  

Join The Little Falls Watershed Alliance to tour the garden and learn how you can beautify your yard and solve some stormwater run-off problems with native plants. The Montgomery County RainScapes program will be onsite, too, with information about which native plants are best and how to get a rebate for managing stormwater on your property.

This project was made possible by a grant from the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection. The award funding is provided through the Montgomery County Water Quality Protection Fund.

This Sunday, October 25

Please use the buttons below to let us know how you will take part in Sunday's service:

Happening this Week

TODAY!

Tuesday, October 20

11 a.m.

What Now?!

Discussion Group

Parish Hall

12 Noon

Prayers for Peace and Healing

On Zoom

Join us at 12 Noon for a few minutes of reflection and prayer - for ourselves, for our loved ones, and for the needs of our country and the world. Click the button below to join the Zoom:

Wednesday, October 21

10:30 a.m.

Bible Study:

The Revelation to John

On Zoom



You are always welcome!

Sunday, October 25

11:45 a.m.



Last Chance to Pre-Order Your Art to Lift Spirits Books at Discounted Rate

Pre-ordered books will be available at the book release party on November 15, and Sue will be happy to sign them for you. Proceeds will support St. Dunstan's outreach and refugee ministries.

12-1 p.m.



"Episcopal 101"

Parish Hall

Our fall Formation course about Christianity in the Episcopal tradition continues this Sunday with a look at Baptism and Eucharist.

Please Complete Our Auction Survey

St. Dunstan's Annual Online Auction will be launching in the coming weeks, and the Auction Committee needs your help! Please click the button below to complete a survey to guide their planning. It will take you less than three minutes!

From the Anvil Society

St. Dunstan’s Anvil Society is an honor society recognizing the generosity of our parishioners past and present who have made arrangements for a Planned Gift for St. Dunstan’s. The Anvil Society’s mission is to provide a strong and vibrant future for our church. Parishioners who have made St. Dunstan’s a beneficiary of their will, insurance policy, financial account, or other planned giving program are members of the Anvil Society.

We are rechecking our records and updating them now. If you have already designated St. Dunstan’s in your estate documents, please reach out to the Rector and/or Danette (Dani) Kauffman now to share this information that you are a member of the Anvil Society. We want to ensure that we can thank you appropriately and have your name on our Anvil Society Donor Honor Roll. 

If you would like more information about how you can support this vital ministry through a planned gift, contact Dani or the Rector.

For Your Prayers

If you have added names to our Parish Prayer List, please help us keep the list current and accurate by letting The Rector know when they are ready to "graduate."

For healing, strength, and protection:

Galen Adams; Hollis Anderson; Jim and Karen Besser; Joyce Bleby; Phil and Patti Carroll; Steve Cooper; 

Henry Cox; Traci Dean; Kenny Farnsworth;

Katie Beck Fey; Torrey Finck; Nick Gilbert;

Louisa Greene; Terry Haight; Sue Hale; Deryck Hammon; Joe Heiberger; Ben Hull; Pope Leo;

Michael and Susan Leto; Patricia Mackenzie;

Silvia Mesen; Marsha Muawwad; Rick Nickles;

Meg Adams Pool; Linda Rogers;

Curtis Shively; Jack Tovornik; Sandra Walters; 

David Wheeler; Charlie Wooters;

Martha Lou Youngblood; Anna; Ben; Bill; Christopher; Griffin; Heather; JW; Joe; Karen; Katherine; Lindsay and William; Marty; Melanie; Michelle; MT; Noor; Paola; Patrick; Robert; Sherry; and Shiloh

For others in need of prayer:

The peoples of Bolivia, Haiti, the Holy Land, Iran, Lebanon, Sudan and South Sudan, and Ukraine

The women and men of our

Foreign Service and Armed Forces 

Emergency personnel and first responders

Victims of climate and natural disasters

Missionaries serving throughout the world

The 2026 St. Dunstan's Vestry

The Reverend Patricia Phaneuf Alexander, Rector

Vince Leonard, Senior Warden

Fred Atwood, Junior Warden

 Nils Overdahl, Treasurer

Michelle Mesen, Registrar

Nancy Douglas

Doug McManus

Marie Park

Carmen Petruzzi

Graham Rehrig

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(Office closed Fridays and on Federal holidays)