Dec 15, 2025
Music Mondays with Tom Reyes & Friends
Join us for a special holiday-themed Music Mondays! Tom Reyes and Friends will present a holiday themed jazz concert. Tom Reyes is a creative musician grounded in the American Jazz Lexicon, and drawing from range of traditions. The band will perform selections from the Great American Songbook. Email Lea Gilmore (lea@govanspres.org) for more information.
Dec 14, 2025
Christmas Party & Crèche Display
Join us for a Christmas Party on December 14 right after the service! Everyone is welcome to bring snacks to share. We’ll have plenty of intergenerational fun, including decorating, making garlands and Santas, cookie decorating, and caroling. Additionally, if you’d like to display your crèche, please bring it to Gallery after the service and set it up on the white table designated for crèches.
Dec 14, 2025
All That We Love – A Christmas Cantata
Join us during worship on Sunday, December 14, for the world premiere of a new piece written for — and performed by — the Govans Chancel and composed by our director, Marie Herrington! All That We Love is a Christmas Cantata centered on the theme of Blue Christmas, offering comfort and reflection for those who find the holiday season challenging. This remarkable premiere brings together our choirs with band pianist Jim Gibbons on celesta and Erin Lee on piano; Kevin…
Dec 7, 2025
Woodbrook Players present ‘Tis the Season
The Woodbrook Players present ‘Tis the Season Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 7 at 3:00 p.m. Celebrate the holiday season with the Woodbrook Players! Scenes and tunes will lift your spirits and get you in the proper mood. Show takes place in the Sanctuary. Tickets available at the gate or and the link below.
Dec 7, 2025
Worship Service featuring Govans Got Talent!
Another year has nearly come and gone—amazing! What better way to wrap it up than with an open mic Govans Got Talent! to kick off the holiday season? Join us for music, poetry, and more from members of the Govans community. This special event will take place during worship. Hope to see you there!
Dec 6, 2025
Woodbrook Players present ‘Tis the Season
The Woodbrook Players present ‘Tis the Season Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 7 at 3:00 p.m. Celebrate the holiday season with the Woodbrook Players! Scenes and tunes will lift your spirits and get you in the proper mood. Show takes place in the Sanctuary. Tickets available at the gate or and the link below.
Dec 6, 2025
Baltimore Flute Choir Concert
Join us on Saturday, December 6 at 3:00 p.m. for a beautiful Baltimore Flute Choir concert at Govans Presbyterian Church, 5828 York Road. The event is free and open to the public—all are welcome to enjoy an afternoon of music!
Nov 30, 2025
Advent Wreath Making Party
What is an Advent wreath? Why do we light Advent candles? Grown-ups and children are all invited to make Advent wreaths and talk about this! Join us on November 30 at 9:30 a.m. on the stage in Sharp Hall for an intergenerational wreath making party. Supplies will be provided – bring evergreen cuttings and pine cones if you have them.
Nov 25, 2025
Govans Garden Group
Come garden with us! Every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., we gather to weed the Labyrinth, tend the bio-retention pond, and care for the veggie gardens. Volunteers always welcome! Drop Bonnie Thomson a note at blt218@aol.com if you’d like to join.
Nov 19, 2025
GEDCO Thanksgiving Tribute
GEDCO’s Thanksgiving Tribute is a beloved annual gala that brings together our extended community of supporters, neighbors, and friends. This special evening celebrates the impact of our work, raises awareness for our mission, and honors the individuals and organizations who make it all possible. Each year, we reflect on their program successes, recognize the incredible contributions of longtime GEDCO champions, and raise critical support for the housing, food assistance, and senior services they provide throughout Baltimore. Most importantly, the Tribute offers a moment…
Nov 17, 2025
Music Mondays with Geoffrey Himes
Quarto Group imprint Motorbooks has just released Geoffrey Himes’s long-awaited Willie Nelson: All the Albums—The Stories Behind the Music, a unique biography that tells Nelson’s story through the 152 albums he recorded and the life that shaped them. This landmark work follows Himes’s previous music book, In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, published last winter by the Country Music Hall of Fame. In between these two major music histories,…
Nov 2, 2025
BUILD Listening Session
Please join us on November 2 at noon, for an important listening session! Govans is now a member of BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development) and we need your help in identifying the important community issues we collectively face in North Baltimore. Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) is a broad-based, non-partisan, interfaith, multiracial community power organization rooted in Baltimore’s neighborhoods and congregations. BUILD’s strength and success is derived from its member institutions—congregations, public schools, and neighborhood associations from across…