Second Sunday after Christmas • January 3, 2021 Reverend Karen’s sister, Jo, is in the hospital being treated for COVID. Please keep Jo and her family and Rev. Karen and her family in your prayers. Let us pray: O God, the strength of the weak and the comfort of sufferers: Mercifully accept our prayers, and […]
Winter solstice, when the northern hemisphere sinks into its deepest point of darkness, creates the longest night of the year. Tonight, the Women Driver’s Interfaith Group and Hope 4 Restoration are honored to present a meaningful interfaith service to remember the 329 homeless children, women and men who died in 2020 in Orange County, without […]
Our fabulous Youth Group finished 2020 with this week with a reading of the Nativity story, online games, and the promise of a winter retreat in 2021. Mrs. Patti’s suggestion to YG members to read different versions of the Nativity is a good one for all of us. “So much comes alive for me when […]
Three hundred vulnerable and homeless children, women, and men died on the streets of Orange County this year from various causes. That’s the highest number of homeless deaths recorded in any year in our area. Their lives will be remembered and honored at the “Night of Remembrance Candlelight Vigil” livestream service on Monday, December 21 […]
Dear Church Family, In November I let you know about new tools we were making available to our entire congregation to invest in your financial healing and secure your stable future. We love you, and in this difficult season we want to offer you the gift of peace and contentment in your finances. We […]
Okay, it’s rubber meets the road time! Bag-packing day for our Thanksgiving Food Drive is this weekend. Here’s where we are: • Goal: 400 bags • Bags in-hand: 200 (from St. John’s members and from nearby churches) • We have a lot to go, but we’ve got this, St. John’s! The St. John’s Youth Group […]
Our annual Thanksgiving Food Drive is here! We have the great honor to help provide Thanksgiving meals for our neighbors in need. We hope you’re able to pitch in and buy food, help pack bags, and hand out meal bags on distribution day in mid-November. Our goal this year is to provide 400 meals through our […]
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Sunday, August 23, 2020 Beloved of God: Don’t you find it affirming how often the Bible quotes the Book of Common Prayer? In the reading this weekend from a letter to the Church in Rome, Paul writes: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to […]
Our Middle School and High School Youth groups met this week on Zoom and if you are a lover of riddles, see Joe Miramontes who held the Middle School group in thrall while we threw questions at him to solve his riddle: “I have an eye and a leg and no head. What am I?” […]
You may not know this but the St. John’s Youth Group, and its leaders, are EXTREMELY adaptable. In January — before the Coronavirus disruption — the YG launched a new approach to ministry. Did you read about it in the newsletter? We’re loading the article below. In essence, the new approach offered multiple opportunities to […]
At first glance online Youth Group meetings look just like other online meetings, but then the audio goes live to laughter, gentle hazing, prayers, and — what’s that in the background? — just one of the kids bouncing background slides from a nature shot to a goofy picture of a sibling, and an up close […]
Here’s Morning Prayer with Rev. Christopher Potter for Wednesday, April 22, 2020:
Here’s the service for Morning Prayer for Monday, April 20.
Good Monday morning to you! Today we resume the prayer for the week; today’s offering is a meditation called “Looking Up”. May it be a balm to you and offer restoration and peace. Note: regarding Morning/Evening worship this week — until further notice, and while we are sheltering-in-place, our online Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer/Compline […]
Here’s this morning’s Morning Prayer Service for Second Easter, April 19, 2020. May God bless you and keep you and may his face shine upon you!
May the Christ who took precarious steps toward Jerusalem, be the strength we need to take the daily steps towards healing and reconciling a broken world. Beloved of God, how rewarding it was to see so many of you this morning for our Palm Sunday online service. The service was remarkably smooth – especially for […]
Looking for the link for Sunday, April 5, Palm Sunday? It’s three posts under this post. Here’s the logon information for Morning Prayer beginning Monday, April 6. It’s the same logon information for all days in this post. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday – this is the link for Morning Prayer at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday and […]
Peace of Christ be with us all. As you may have seen my email of Friday morning, I alerted you that information regarding best practices during the COVID-19 epidemic were changing sometimes hour-by-hour. That is exactly what has happened today and why I reach out to you again. News from local agencies, health-care professionals, and […]
It’s time for weekly reminders! Monday, March 9: • Parish Council, Learning Commons, 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10: • Caring About Precious Seniors, Park Terrace, 6:30 p.m. • Education for Ministry, Art Studio, 7 p.m. • School Committee, Learning Commons, 6 p.m. • St. John’s Bible Fellowship, Vicar’s Office, 7 p.m. • Festival Singers Rehearsal, […]
Here are your weekly reminders. May your week be blessed! Monday, March 2: • Caring About Precious Seniors, Park Terrace, 6:30 p.m. • Education for Ministry, Learning Commons, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3: • St. John’s Bible Fellowship, Learning Commons, 7 p.m. • Festival Singers Rehearsal, Instrumental Music Room, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4: • […]