From The Rev. Sarah Phelps, Rector Past, Present & Future In early 2019, St. John’s made an historic decision with parish-wide participation and financial investment, to hire a half-time minister to lead our children and family ministries for the first time in our parish history. We hired Sarah Bentley Allred fresh out of seminary at…
It is the middle of summer and not the most opportune time for a parish meeting, but I know many of you are curious and interested (concerned?) to have a status update on various areas of our life and ministry at St. John’s as we continue to navigate many changes in our life together. I…
Things often get kind of quiet at church in the summer since lots of people are away for vacations or weekends at the beach; and this summer especially, many of us are absolutely itching to get away since we’ve been homebound for so long with the pandemic. While Covid-19 continues its rampage across the globe,…
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth (“June” plus “nineteenth”) commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston,Texas and informed enslaved African Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended. This announcement gave voice to the written words of the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued more than two and a…
Tomorrow is the Feast of Pentecost, and I had a choice to make when planning our Eucharist this year: I had to choose between the classic Pentecost reading from Acts where the Holy Spirit descends upon the disciples in the sound of a rushing wind and tongues of fire, or Ezekiel’s prophetic vision of the…
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER You are invited to join a conversation with a diverse group of faith communities in Wake Forest on race and housing. Inspired by the work of Habitat for Humanity, we will gather on Zoom to watch the short film Segregated by Design (which you can also view ahead of time at…
Dear Friends and Parishioners of St. John’s, It has been wonderful to see so many folks in the pews at St. John’s over the past few weeks. As vaccination efforts continue and CDC guidelines are updated, our diocese also continues to update its guidelines for in-person worship and other gatherings. We will continue to follow…
St. John’s Vestry has enlisted Ministry Architects to help us remain healthy, connected, and centered on what matters most as we adapt to a prolonged season of growth and change. Please join us for a 1-hour Zoom Listening Session in mid-May to help our friends from Ministry Architects learn who we are and what we…
As our spiritual attention is focused this week on the great drama of Holy Week, we also find ourselves peeking ahead toward the new resurrection life of Easter. Similarly, while we’ve spent the last year figuring out how to worship while “physically distant,” we now find ourselves looking at how to safely return to in-person…