St. John’s Annual Meeting Part 2 Reports
Annual Meeting Part 2 Reports
Creation Care Winter Perennial Garden
Winter perennial gardens are woefully misunderstood. Messy, drab,cluttered with dead stalks and leaves, they seem to be the opposite of what one expects of a garden. But wait! Before judging that messy garden too harshly, think about what those hard-working plants do for much of the year: they bloom for months, yielding joy to humans…
A message from The Rev. Sarah Phelps, Rector
Priests, I think, are not supposed to have favorite scripture passages or liturgical seasons, kind of like you’re not supposed to have a favorite child. But I do. Advent is my favorite season, and the scripture passages we read in Advent are among the ones I treasure most in all of scripture. (There. You’ve heard…
St. John’s Annual Parish Report for 2022
Annual Parish Report 2022
A Message from Marcia Klinder-Badgley, Director of Music Ministry
Message of the Week “There are saints who light the darkness, and the world cannot contain them, For the love of God sustains them, they will never be forgotten. We are blest to have them with us, and we praise the God who made them…” John Ylvisaker, (1937-2017), the author of this text,…
Sophia Sisters Retreat
Women’s Retreat — Take some time and space to feed your soul. Click here to reserve your spot now with online registration and payment! We have great news about the Women’s Spring Retreat for St John’s, March 10-12, 2023. The Retreat will again be at Haw River State Park in Brown’s Summit, north of Greensboro, NC. We…
The Peace, Power, and Blessing of Lay Eucharistic Visitation
By Ken Marsh (pictured right) and Moe Isenberg (pictured left) From Ken: Moe Isenberg recently shared with me a piece he wrote in the 1980’s titled “What I get out of taking communion to shut-ins?” Moe summed it up in one word: PEACE! In that one word, Moe beautifully sums up all the feelings, emotions and activities…
A Message from The Rev. Sarah Phelps, Rector
As Fall settles in, we move from a focus on Creation Season at St. John’s (celebrating God’s gift of Creation and God’s call to steward it well), to a season of reflection on other dimensions of stewardship: First, discerning how we might best serve God and neighbor with our time, and our talents, and our…
A Message from The Rev. Stephen Mazingo, Sr. Assoc. Family Ministries
“I want to walk as a child of the light.” This simple song we sing every Sunday as the children of St. John’s process to Godly Play grounds us and reminds us of Isaiah’s vision of the peaceful kingdom, which states, “and a little child shall lead them.” As we have entered the Season of…
Adult Spiritual Formation Schedule — Fall, 2022
Printable version: Spiritual Formation Flyer