Please join CUAH on Sunday, April 28th at 6 – 8:30 pm for our second annual Taste of Communities United.  Bring your families, sample street food from around the world, and bid on awesome silent auction items.  The food from 25 different countries during last year Taste of Communities United was incredible, and it will be even better this year.  The event will take place again at St. John’s Episcopal Church (Parish Hall), 6701 Wisconsin Ave, Chevy Chase, MD. We will honor Congressman Jamie…

On May 5th, directly following the 11:15 am service, all parishioners are welcome and encouraged to attend the Serving Seniors Ministry sponsored Enhanced Hospitality Hour. Finger sandwiches and pastries will be served. This event is an effort to foster more consistent fellowship throughout the year among all St. John's Parishioners.

Men's Chill Grill will feature grilled burgers, hot dogs, and chicken with fixings, desert, and an opportunity to kick back and relax with old and new friends. Water, soda, and juice will be provided, but feel free to BYOB as appropriate.

The next meeting of the St. John's Women's Book Group will be held on Monday, May 6th. We will be discussing The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott. Washington Post: "The Catholic Church lurks in every McDermott novel. ... In The Ninth Hour - whose title suggests not only the Midafternoon Prayer but also the time of death of Jesus and of the suicide of Sally's father - we go directly into the belly of the beast, down to the basement…

Barack Obama called Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad  "errific." NPR called it an "American Masterpiece." The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded it the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The book straightforwardly, unblinkingly addresses the harrowing nature of one of America's greatest sins, slavery, through the eyes of Cora, a fugitive slave, but the tone is matter of fact. Whitehead leaves the ethical questions and the moralizing to you and me, the readers, and in so doing challenges our minds and our…