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Ordinary Time
...Baby One More Time
Bylaws Beware
100

Fecal matter from this bird adorned our first worship space

What is a pigeon

100

Sandra McCracken is responsible for this hymn in which there are lots of eating but no more weeping

What is We Will Feast in the House of Zion

100

The cloth that is used to wipe your neighbor's saliva from the chalice

What is the purificator

100

This baby bears the name of the street on which resides the house that most resembles Shaggy, Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Scooby's home base

Anderson Oakwood Leo

100

No more do Adventers have to phone a friend--we have validated that the quorum requirement is this proportion

What is one-third of the church's members

200

Our resident Easter Vigil drummer was formerly part of this Charlottesville-based Contemporary Christian band

What is Tim Be Told

200

Usually sung on Trinity Sunday, this hymn brings to mind all of the socks we should throw away

What is Holy Holy Holy

200

This sermon series resulted in record-breaking attendance at Advent

What is Song of Solomon

200

The first Advent baby born in 2019

Who is Mary Hayley Fleming

200

Who knows who made them, but it is the alliterative set of instructions for how we vote as a congregation

What is Robert's Rules

300

An office friendship in Georgetown was just the beginning for this now-married Advent couple

Who are Andrew and Kendall Hicks

300

Wendell Kimbrough tuned the song following communion to this composer's final symphony

Who is Beethoven

300

It's not easy being this which is the color of the current liturgical season

What is green

300

These two babies were born within the hour at the same hospital in Maryland last year

Who are Alexandria Poulos and Charlie Gunden

300

A brutal process that occurs twice a year; some might liken it to the KonMari method

What is the purging of the member rolls

400

As a teenager, he and his brother accidentally set a field on fire.  

Who is Tommy Hinson

400

A bluegrass version of this hymn originally written by Fortunatis tests our congregation's ability to clap in cut time.  

What is Praise the Savior Now and Ever

400

This person saved Dan from tearing gluten free wafers into two hundred pieces by dashing to Le Caprice during the offertory to buy a loaf of bread

Who is Becky Knooihuizen

400

Yours truly witnessed the birth of this baby

Who is Mara Catherine Whittemore

400

Our president is older than this, which is the age that our rector must terminate his office

What is 72

500

The total number of Sunday worship spaces that Church of the Advent has met in

What is 7

500

The hymn that comes to mind every minute we wait at the traffic light at Michigan Ave and Taylor St NE

What is How Long

500

Someone inevitably utters this word during the season preceding Easter

What is Alleluia

500

This baby was named after the novelist who is most well-known for her trilogy on the Ames and Boughton families

Who is Marilynne Rose Antlitz

500

Should Tommy be incapacitated or absent, this person presides over Parish Council meetings

Who is the rector's warden