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History and Nature of St. George Church

In the fall of 1953, at the request of the Department of Missions of the Diocese of West Texas, the Rector and Vestry of Trinity Church, San Antonio, began a series of services conducted by their Lay Readers in the Dellview area, at 1902 Vance-Jackson Road. The building in which they met was owned by the Methodist Church and housed St. Mark’s Methodist Church. They made the building available for the Episcopalians to use at 3:00 o’clock Sunday afternoons. The people of Trinity Church conducted a house-to-house survey that resulted in 58 persons being in attendance at the first service conducted by the Rev. Charles Douglass.

Attendance dwindled because of the unusual time of services, and on July 4, 1954, services were moved to a rented log-cabin that stood at 6511 West Avenue in Castle Hills. On November 15, 1954, after a short Evening Prayer service with 43 persons in attendance, the Rt. Reverend Everett H. Jones organized the new mission as St. George Mission. Twenty-three of those present requested that their memberships be transferred. On January 1, 1955, the Rev. Christian Kehl became Vicar by appointment of Bishop Jones.

The congregation met in the log cabin until their first service in their new building on October 30, 1955. It was a service of Holy Communion, Holy Baptism, and Morning Prayer. The new building was located on the site of the present St. George property at 6900 West Avenue in Castle Hills. On November 15, 1955, the first anniversary of the chartering of St. George Mission, the Rt. Rev. R. Earl Dicus, Suffragan Bishop, dedicated the first new building, confirmed a class of eight adults, bringing the communicant strength to eighty-eight souls. One year later, November 15, 1956, Bishop Jones dedicated the new Parish Hall Building at an 8:00 PM Harvest Festival Dinner. St. George Mission applied for and received parish status in the Diocese of West Texas on January 30, 1961 at its 57th Annual Council, held in Brownsville, Texas.

1972- Partnership of St. George School (founded 1954 as Pilgrim Day School) and Church