Back after a couple of years away, the Rev. Canon George Maxwell returns to All Saints for the next two weeks. On July 22, Rev. Maxwell will celebrate Holy Communion at 8 a.m. The 10 a.m. services will be Morning Prayer. On July 29, Maxell will celebrate Holy Communion at both 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. A social hour with refreshments follows the 10am service. At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 31, Maxwell will lead a discussion group on the church porch. On July 22, visiting organist Dr. Rory McCorkle will be playing for the services. Most recently McCorkle was director of music ministry at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Pennington, New Jersey where he directed the senior choir, handbell choir and children’s choir. He has developed liturgies and music for special services, including All Souls, Lessons and Carols and Evensong.

Canon Maxwell is the vicar of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta. In addition to his teaching, preaching and pastoral duties he is responsible for the operations of the Cathedral and the development of its staff, programs and ministries. Maxwell is also a member (and former chair) of the Bishop’s Advisory Council for The Church of the Common Ground, which provides support “for the spiritual, social, emotional and physical needs of Atlanta’s unhoused men and women.” He is a founding member of the faculty for Learning to Lead (L2L), a training course established by the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta to apply the principles of Adaptive Leadership to the church. Maxwell is a spirituality faculty member for CREDO, a wellness program for clergy of the Episcopal Church. He is also a member (and former chair) of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Georgia Justice Project. In 2011 he was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. He earned a master’s of divinity degree (with a certificate in Anglican Studies) from Emory University in 2004, and served as interim director of Emmaus House before moving to the Cathedral in 2005.

Maxwell’s first vocation was law.  He graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University School of Law, and worked as a corporate lawyer in Atlanta for 20 years, leaving Alston & Bird in 2001.  His sermons and his recent series of “Letters to a Young Episcopalian” can be found on the Cathedral’s website.

All Saints by-the-Sea is on Southport Island on All Saints Road about two miles on your left as you drive south on Route 238 (look for the Episcopal Church sign by the side of the road). Parking is available along Route 238, or if necessary, in the limited number of handicapped parking spaces off All Saints Road. A golf cart will ferry persons from the handicapped lot to the church steps. You may also come to church by private boat or by the tour boat Novelty, which leaves Boothbay Harbor from Pier 8 at 9 a.m. Novelty picks up passengers from the church dock at 11:40 a.m. for return to Pier 8. The very beautiful and simple wood chapel is open for quiet prayer and meditation during the week.