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The Outreach Grants Committee

Through the generosity of previous generations, St. Luke’s is the recipient of funds that are designated for improving the lives of under-served people, particularly those with health problems and living in poverty. The Outreach Grants Committee recommends to the Vestry how those funds are used. For calendar year 2019, grant recipients included Crossroads Community Ministries, I Have a Dream, TACC, Midtown Assistance Center, Church of the Common Ground, and Emmaus House. Grantees added this year included the Boyce L. Ansley School.

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The Rev. Winnie Varghese
Rector
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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.

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.
Community Ministries Faith and Advocacy Network (FAN) Respite Care Atlanta Fill the Outreach Baskets The Mustard Seed Garden Knitting Group Cuba Companionship The Park at St. Luke's Courtland Street Mission Refugee Resettlement Ministry The Midtown Assistance Center (MAC) The Outreach Grants Committee
Campus of Miracles

Sermons

  • Dec 3 | The Rev. Winnie Varghese
    First Sunday of Advent
  • Nov 26 | The Rev. Dr. Gabrielle Thomas
    Christ the King
  • Nov 19 | The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Kaeton
    Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Nov 12 | The Rev. Winnie Varghese
    Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Nov 5 | The Rt. Rev. Dr. John Perumbalath
    All Saints' Sunday

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

  • 9 a.m. Worship Service with Communion (spoken)
  • 9 a.m. Family Service with Communion (live online)
  • 11:15 a.m. Worship Service with Communion (live online)

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

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435 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308

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