AT THE CREATION -The history of St. George's Church is the story of committed African American women and men who believed in Anglican Christianity and dreamed and worked into reality a church in the LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Neighborhood where they lived. On April, 4, 1929, Mrs. Sally Perry, Mrs. Rudolf Blake, and Mr. Frank Mowery laid before the Bishop of Washington their vision of a church for their neighborhood that was becoming increasingly black.

The Bishop gave the mission his blessing, On October 29, 1929, Mrs. Perry gathered 26 Episcopalians, 20 women and six men including William Perry, her husband, for a formal organizational meeting at their home, 1721 First Street. Services and afternoon Sunday School were held at the Perry's and other homes until the founders located and rented a first floor apartment at 85 R Street where the first service was held on January 12, 1930.

The incipient congregation was augmented from demographic changes when Blacks were forced out of Washington west of Rock Creek Park. St. George's Colored Mission in Upper Northwest known as Tenleytown closed in 1929 due "to the change in the neighborhood" and it's members transferred to St. John's Colored Chapel in Georgetown, which closed the next year. A few faithful Episcopalians, including Mrs. Anna Curley, came to St. George's despite the difficult commute by street car. The founders acquiesced in the name "St. George's" upon the recommendation of the Diocese that using that title that would give St. George's "certain needed benefits". St. George's did receive a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Tenleytown property.