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Accessibility Renovations at St. Luke's
Announcements and Opportunities

Accessibility Renovations at St. Luke's

posted on Jun 9, 2022

This summer, we are excited to begin work on several renovation projects that will make our church more accessible and welcoming for all. This work, which was approved by the St. Luke's Vestry in May, will add space for wheelchairs and walkers in...
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Billy Clifton-Strawn's FLORAL MAJORITY Exhibit Comes to the Glenn Gallery

Billy Clifton-Strawn's FLORAL MAJORITY Exhibit Comes to the Glenn Gallery

posted on Jun 8, 2022

Billy Clifton-Strawn's latest exhibit will be featured in the Glenn Gallery from June 12 through Aug. 31. Please take some time to visit this incredible exhibit when you come to church! A message from the artist: In society there is so much...
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June 2022 Shepherd's Voice

June 2022 "Shepherd's Voice"

posted on Feb 28, 2022

For a complete look at what's happening at St. Luke's this month, please take a look at our Shepherd's Voice newsletter . This digital publication includes information about our Prepare Ye The Way II campaign, a new art exhibit, several voluntee...
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Fill the Outreach Baskets

Fill the Outreach Baskets

posted on Feb 18, 2022

June and July: Midtown Assistance Center (MAC) In June and July, we'll be collecting donations for MAC, an organization that provides emergency assistance to low-income working Atlantans to help prevent homelessness and hunger during periods o...
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From the June Shepherd's Voice

From the June "Shepherd's Voice"

posted on Feb 1, 2022

Dear St. Luke's, This week, you should receive information in the mail about an exciting campaign for our church home. Prepare Ye The Way II will build on the success of our original Prepare Ye The Way campaign and ensure that we are well positi...
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St. Luke's on YouTube

St. Luke's on YouTube

posted on Jan 18, 2022

Watch Sunday worship services, presentations from guest speakers and our "At the Broad Step" series on the St. Luke's YouTube channel .
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​Ascensa Health in January
Community Ministries / Fill the Outreach Baskets

​Ascensa Health in January

posted on Jan 1, 2022

This month, St. Luke's is collecting items for hygiene kit for Ascensa Heath - formerly known as St. Jude's Recovery Centers. Items needed include: Soap - Deodorant- Floss - Tooth Brush Tooth - Paste Socks - Body Wash -Sanitary Napkins - Shampo...
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Christmas Eve In Person or Online

Christmas Eve In Person or Online

posted on Dec 24, 2021

Join us to celebrate Christ's coming. All are welcome. The Feast of the Nativity Holy Eucharist at 2 p.m. Holy Eucharist with Christmas Pageant at 4 p.m. Music prelude begins at 3:30 p.m. The Nursery opens at 3 p.m. All children are invi...
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Ebenezer and St. Luke's Partner of Economic Equity
Faith and Advocacy Network (FAN)

Ebenezer and St. Luke's Partner of Economic Equity

posted on Dec 15, 2021

Through St. Luke's Faith Advocacy Network's Economic Equity initiative, we have partnered with Ebenezer Baptist Church to make an impact in our community by focusing on the Old Fourth Ward (O4W). Economic equity is a complex and multi-layered cha...
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New Sunday Schedule in January

New Sunday Schedule in January

posted on Dec 15, 2021

While we are beginning our new schedule on Sunday, January 9, 2022, we have had to alter our plans a bit because of COVID. We will continue to offer in person worship. Masks are required. We will stream live the 11:15 service as planned AND we ...
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The Rev. Winnie Varghese
Rector
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The Rev. Elizabeth Shows Caffey
Senior Associate Rector, ​Liturgy and Education
The Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin
Associate Priest for Pastoral Care
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Matthew Brown
Director of Music
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Mark Simmons
Director of Membership & Stewardship
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The Rev. Winnie Varghese

Rector
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A national leader in the Episcopal Church, the Rev. Winnie Varghese is known for her inspired writing, teaching and preaching. Before becoming the 23rd rector of St. Luke's, she served as Priest for Ministry and Program Coordination at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City.

Prior to Trinity, Winnie served as Rector and Priest-in-Charge at St. Mark’s in the Bowery in New York. Winnie was also Chaplain at both Columbia University and University of California Los Angeles. She is a native of Dallas, Texas and is married to Elizabeth Toledo, a public relations executive. They have two grown children.

Winnie serves on the Board of Trustees of Union Theological Seminary, she chaired the General Convention’s Committee on the State of the Church from 2015 to 2018, and she served on the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Divinity School, 2013-2016. She is also a published author, editor, and podcaster.

Winnie’s parents immigrated to the United States from India, and Winnie spent part of her early childhood years there. She attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA and earned her bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She then attended Union Theological Seminary and graduated with her Master of Divinity degree in 1999. She was ordained to the deaconate in Los Angeles in 1999 and to the priesthood six months later in 2000.

The Rev. Elizabeth Shows Caffey

Senior Associate Rector, ​Liturgy and Education

Elizabeth has served at St. Lukes since February 2015. Elizabeth has a passion for liturgy and a love for all things community. Her focus is around fostering opportunities for spiritual development and growth. Before seminary she developed and subsequently directed the Johnson Intern Program at Chapel of the Cross, an Episcopal Service Corps program in Chapel Hill, NC while also working as the family coordinator for Chatham Habitat for Humanity. She has served at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City and All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta as the priest for outreach, liturgy and pastoral care. The connecting thread through all of Elizabeth’s work has been engaging in compelling questions about God, living as a person of great faith and intellectual inquiry, and responding with action and intention in how we live. She loves camping with her children and dogs, Ana and Fig. Elizabeth is always up for travel and adventure. Having been raised in North Carolina and as an alumni of the University, Elizabeth is an avid Duke basketball fan.

The Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin

Associate Priest for Pastoral Care
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A graduate of Morehouse College, Boston University, and Vanderbilt in theological studies, Horace came to St. Luke's in July 2017 after a twenty-seven year vocation as a college and seminary professor and hospital chaplain. While he has served on a part-time basis at a number of parishes, currently he has oversight for the pastoral care ministry and provides leadership for the fifteen Community Ministries here at St. Luke’s.

An award-winning author of the groundbreaking, Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in the Black Church, he was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 2005 and has passionately devoted his parish ministry to social justice, racial reconciliation and LBGTQ equality in the Church.

His fundamental belief that we are called to love God and treat all humans with love and equal justice is at the heart of his ministry. When he is not working on making the world a better place, he enjoys music, concerts, and film. He is interested in reading books on religion, African American and Gay history, and First Ladies.

Matthew Brown

Director of Music
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Matthew Michael Brown was appointed Director of Music at St. Luke’s in February, 2020. At St. Luke’s, he oversees a comprehensive sacred music program and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Music at St. Luke’s series.

He has concertized throughout the USA and abroad, and several performances have been heard in radio broadcasts of American Public Media’s Pipe Dreams and the nationally syndicated program, With Heart and Voice. As a concert artist, he has performed in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Barcelona Cathedral, Spain; Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; Washington National Cathedral; Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York; Princeton University Chapel; Assembly Hall of the Mormon Tabernacle; Trinity Church on Copley Square, Boston; Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta; Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham; Grace Church Cathedral, Charleston; and Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville. He has premiered works by prominent North Carolina composers, Kenneth Frazelle and Dan Locklair, and has facilitated commissions of new music by Barlow Bradford, David Hurd, Simon Lole, Ned Rorem, and Richard Webster. In 2023, under Matthew's leadership, St. Luke's will endeavor to become a national leader in annually commissioning music by underrepresented composers for traditional liturgies of the Episcopal Church.

He earned degrees in organ performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Eastman School of Music. He also holds the Sacred Music Diploma from Eastman's Institute of Music Leadership. As a grant recipient from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and The Robert Carwithen Foundation, he pursued two years of post-graduate organ studies with Dame Gillian Weir. Other major teachers included David Higgs, Jack Mitchener, and Wayne Leupold. Earlier in his career, he benefited from master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Bouvard, David Craighead, and Ewald Kooiman.

He is professionally affiliated with the Association of Anglican Musicians, American Guild of Organists, American Choral Director’s Association, and the Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé Association. He currently serves on the boards of The Leupold Foundation, Atlanta's Taylor National Organ Playing Competition, and chairs the Nominating Committee for the Southeast region of the American Guild of Organists. Each summer, he manages the Royal School of Church Music in America’s Carolina Summer Choral Residency at Duke University.

Mark Simmons

Director of Membership & Stewardship
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Mark loves people! He has worked in the nonprofit world virtually his whole career with major stints at the American Red Cross and two other communities of faith. Mark’s role at St. Luke’s is to help members and newcomers make connections with people and ministries of the parish, in addition to coordinating efforts to fund the church’s ministries. He finds his work fulfilling and important because it helps him and others connect with something bigger than the self and to make the world a better place.

Mark is a Louisiana native, but considers himself fully Georgian, having lived his adult life here. He dabbles with making pottery, trying new recipes in his wok, and he always has an in-progress book on his nightstand. Mark and his partner, Kippy, have been together many years and live in Cobb County with their wirehaired dachshund. Mark loves being a part of the warm, welcoming, inquiring, and difference-making community of St. Luke’s.

Sermons

  • Mar 19 | The Rev. Winnie Varghese
    The Fourth Sunday in Lent
  • Mar 12 | The Rev. Elizabeth Shows Caffey
    The Third Sunday in Lent
  • Mar 5 | The Rev. Winnie Varghese
    The Second Sunday in Lent
  • Feb 26 | The Rev. Dr. Gabrielle Thomas
    The First Sunday in Lent
  • Feb 19 | The Rev. Nicole Lambelet
    Last Sunday after the Epiphany

St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Atlanta, GA

435 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

Tel: 404-873-7600

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Service Times

Sunday Services at St. Luke's

  • 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I (in person only)
  • 9 a.m. Family Worship Service with Communion (in person and live online)
  • 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II (in person and live online)

Bookmark stlukesatlanta.org/live/ for live services, bulletins and updates.

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435 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

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