- Each week Loudoun Interfaith Relief provides food to more than 500 families. Your contributions can help feed families in need. Red envelopes to make donations to Domestic Outreach are located on the windowsill by the Backpack Buddies cart and the Interfaith Relief wagon. [5/13/2012]
- "Food insecurity"- when a person does not know how they will get their next meal - is on the rise in Loudoun County. In Northern Virginia, one in every six children is food insecure. In Loudoun, America’s "most affluent county", roughly 19,000 people are food insecure. [5/6/2012]
- Ellie (Elvira Robina Mannarino Lofaro) is a 1st generation American—the 2nd of five children in a “very Italian” family. She has been communicating her passion for Christ through five books and touching audiences since 1984. Ellie is the featured speaker for our Women’s Retreat. [4/1/2012]
- Tenebrae - the Service of Darkness - commemorates the suffering and death of Christ, representing the darkness that fell over the earth as the He was crucified. Candles symbolize Christ, who is our Light and the Light of the World. [3/25/2012]
- The tech team works approximately 600 volunteer person hours annually or 43 hours per person on average. This includes system maintenance and tuning, training, preparation and shut down for each church service and special events. [3/18/2012]
- In 2011, more than 110 Grace to Go volunteers cooked, packaged and distributed 1,559 meals for those in need. Would you like to help? Contact
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to add your email to the database. [3/11/2012]
- The 2011 REACH team of 310 campers repaired 27 homes, fixed 7 roofs and constructed 6 new porches and wheelchair ramps in Cairo, New York. Come out to the show next weekend and help support another year of REACH. [3/4/2012]
- The Bible Study Group has studied 8 books of the Bible with over 50 women for a total of 88 weeks? Ease into Monday mornings with us as we continue to gather together, receiving a fresh word from God for our everyday lives! [2/26/2012]
- The Life document you receive on Sundays is created by volunteers. Each week, a
team of two to four people from Communications collaborates to create and edit all of the information here. They are the voice of St. David's. [2/19/2012]
- El Hogar de Amor y Esperanza (the Home of Hope and Love) was founded in 1979 by providing five boys with housing and food. Today they provide for 250 children (ages 5-20) at three boarding schools. St. David's Missionaries to El Hogar pay all of their own expenses to serve the children and staff at El Hogar; additionally the team provides $2,000 to El Hogar to help defray operating and maintenance costs. [2/12/2012]
- Our preschool has never had to turn a family away due to monetary constraints? This year alone, we were able to help 18 children through scholarships. Part of our ability to help those in need comes from the Jim Tracy fund. This fund - established in 2009 to honor Jim's years of service and commitment to the church and preschool - is now running low. If you would like to help a little one attend the preschool and at the same time honor Jim's years of service, please consider donating to the Jim Tracy fund. Every donation, big or small, helps! [2/5/2012]
- The Mustard Seed Fund is not part of the Diocese's operating budget; 100% of the money granted comes from donations. [1/29/2012]
- For $250, we could provide food to all of the 250 children at the three El Hogar schools for a full day. Visit http://elhogar.org/sponsor.htm to learn more. [1/22/2012]
- Since it began in February 2010, the Prayer Quilt ministry as given out 76 quilts and 115 12" prayer squares with an average of three quilts given per month in 2011. [1/15/2012]
- Every 2 seconds someone in the US needs blood. The average transfusion is approximately 3 pints. To satisfy the need, more than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day. [1/8/2012]
- Thanks to your generosity, St. David's delivered two overflowing shopping carts filled with clothes, two flat bed carts filled with toys and more than 20 gift cards to the Holiday Coalition. [12/18/2011]
- The average pledge in the Episcopal Church in 2009 was $2,302. The average pledge in the Diocese of Virginia in 2009 was $2,593. The average pledge at St. David’s in 2011 was $3,995. [12/11/2011]
- 41% of our 2012 budget will be spent on property expenses including our mortgage, utilities, insurance, building maintenance and repairs, fire and security and funding of the repair reserve. [12/04/2011]
- You can make a child smile this Holiday season for as little as a $10 donation. Donate a new item or gift card to the Holiday Coalition and fill a stocking for a child! [11/20/2011]
- Over last year's Holiday season, Loudoun's Neighbors Helping Neighbors program distributed more than 50 tons of food at Thanksgiving and more than 25,000 toys & gifts at Christmas. [11/13/2011]
- Over last year’s holiday season, Loudoun’s “Neighbors helping Neighbors” program helped more than 1,400 families in our community receive holiday assistance? [11/6/2011]
- The Tech Team provides coverage to approximately 150 events each year. This translates into 600 volunteer person hours annually. [10/30/2011]
- 89 volunteers have signed up for the Domestic Outreach Volunteers database since it started in May. [10/23/2011]
- St. David’s Preschool has welcomed more than 1,700 families since opening in the Spring of 2001. [10/16/2011]
- Target gift cards given to Good Shepherd Alliance purchased socks and underwear for 2 boys starting school and their mom. The new undergarments has allowed the mom to secure employment. [10/9/2011]
- Because of the new roof put on by a Reach crew during their recent mission trip to Cairo, NY, a family was kept dry during Hurricane Irene. [10/2/2011]
- In 2010, over 50 parishioners attended the Good Shepherd Alliance Walk for Shelter. St. David’s represented the largest attendance from any church in Loudoun County. [09/25/2011]
- The Altar Guild ensures that St. David’s is ready for worship. There are four teams that rotate each week so the altar is prepared for any and all services. [09/18/2011]
- Prayer quilts with our prayers tied in them have been given away to more than 50 people. One quilt has gone as far as Germany. [09/11/2011]
- Each digital mixer used by the Tech Team has over 100 buttons, 16 sliders and 20 knobs. Sound Techs must master approximately 80% of those in order to successfully operate an event. [08/28/2011]
- The flower arrangements on the altar are created by loving volunteers offering their time and talent each week. It takes about 2 hours to prepare a single arrangement that is so beautiful, many people assume they are from a florist. [08/21/2011]
- In 1989, when this parish was being named, “St. David’s” won by one vote over “St. Chad’s”. [08/14/2011]
- Last Sunday, parishioners donated 25 pints of blood and each donor burned about 600 calories doing so. [08/07/2011]
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