My heart is full when I think of the privilege of serving a church that truly understands that we are our sister’s keeper, that we are our brother’s keeper, that our mission directs us to “love our neighbors just as we love ourselves.” We, all together, no doubt have more service in us and before us, as we work toward the healing of a community, country and world that is literally plagued and also divided. Read more…
This fall, Lynne Matthews is offering a Bible study that will help you get to know the Apostle Paul a little better. The study is called STAND and is a 10-week study in which we will consider the Apostle Paul’s words to the early church from Romans, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonians. Each session will be on Thursday for one hour. The initial meeting to introduce you to the Bible study will be on September 10. Read more…
Please join us in welcoming Ron Fabry to St. John’s Church on October 1. Ron grew up in Connecticut and attended Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he received a double Masters Degree in Church Music and Organ Performance. While doing postgraduate studies in upstate New York at the Eastman School of Music, Ron taught conducting, hymnology, choir training methods and group vocal techniques in the Diocese of Rochester’s certification program at St. Read more…
Reminder, walkabout tomorrow! Join us for a Walkabout on Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00 pm. One of the goals of the bishop search process is to give everyone in the diocese the opportunity to get to know the candidates. A walkabout is essentially a meet and greet with the candidates. All three candidates will be visiting churches all over the diocese to chat with the parishioners and clergy and to answer questions. Some Walkabout visits Read more…
So your mental switch may have flipped so loud that you could actually hear it: You’re ready to have a baby. If it is your first or second (or third), you are ready and ideally want it ASAP. If you are anything like me (type A recovering control freak), perhaps until recently, it seemed life more or less followed a linear formula: goal + hard work = result. Apparently fertility didn’t get the memo. Fertility Read more…
Stewardship Sunday | August 23 | 10 AM One Service for One Faith Community Indeed 2020 is An Extraordinarily Loving Year! In 2021, we are working toward simplicity by focusing on the word ENOUGH. We will look to raise ENOUGH financial resource to continue and expand our loving mission. We will say “ENOUGH is ENOUGH” to the things that seek to divide us. We will maintain our time and commitment to each other knowing all Read more…
When my older son, Pete, was 8 weeks old, I did an overnight trip with a friend. I wanted to prove that I would be able to maintain myself and my psyche, now that I had become a parent and my heartbeat was inside someone else’s chest. My plan didn’t work. As soon as my friend fell asleep, I cried until the sun came up (what a waste of sleep time in a hotel room!) Read more…
Three days ago I dropped my youngest child off at camp where her older brother and sister have been for the past two weeks. For the next ten days, I will be staying with my mom at the beach, waiting to pick up all three of the kids while my husband holds down the fort in Wyoming. Here’s what I’ve learned about myself these past few days. I need sleep, I need to exercise daily, Read more…
As you may know, the Diocese of Wyoming is in the process of electing the 10th Bishop of Wyoming as Bishop Smylie is retiring. The Rev. Mary Erickson was nominated through the petition process and joins the Rev. David L. Duprey and the Rev. Canon Paul Gordon-Chandler who were brought forward by the Search Committee. Some of us have been a part of a search process before either with a priest or a bishop (here Read more…
Joining us for worship this Sunday, July 12 is the Rev. Travis Helms. Travis is Campus Missioner to the University of Texas at Austin, and is Founder + Curator of LOGOS Poetry Collective, a liturgically-inflected reading series “poetry church” community that congregates in an East Austin brewery. He received a PhD in Divinity; and his dissertation, which explores theological elements in the work of four American poets, is forthcoming as a book from Pickwick / Read more…