Where We Have Been and ... Where We Are Going
By The Grace of God 

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The parish history of St. George's Episcopal Church begins with our founding in 1954. Challenged with spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ amidst a moving population, a group of parishioners from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oakwood began meeting in the basement of a local bank. Community and fellowship began to grow.

By 1956 the first building was erected on farm land a few miles south when Far Hills Avenue was little more than a country road. Bishop Henry Hobson stepped out of his car in an orchard and declared: “Here we will build a church!”

We grew rapidly as Dayton spread southward. The present Main Sanctuary and Nave was built in 1963 when the church outgrew what is now the Parish Hall. In 1994 an elevator was added contained in a new bell tower, from which St. George’s Millennium Bell now rings.

Today, St. George’s is an open, diverse, and caring community with a strong commitment to children and youth ministries, fellowship and pastoral care. We also look beyond our walls, and serve the broader community in Dayton through numerous outreach programs, and over the last decade have formed a strong international relationship with Christians in Sablino, Russia and LaLabor, Guatemala.

With the acquisition of 41 Manor Lane (the adjacent 3.7 acre property to our east) in 2005, our campus is free to expand as God calls us forward into new ministries and opportunities for growth in Christ’s love and service.

We pray that the Holy Spirit may continue to bless us - and all people - who seek to nurture God’s kingdom and grow into the Body of Christ.

"Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine:  Glory to God from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever."
-- Ephesians: 3:20-21