St. John’s Church and Teton Habitat joins the nationwide “Beloved Community” initiative to bring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of access, equality and opportunity for all into action. The next Beloved Community project, Beloved Conversations around Housing, will be on June 13, 2019. You have two opportunities to join us! We will start at The Grove job site (845 W. Snow King Ave.) from 9 am – 1 pm and finish at St. John’s Read more…
Happy Easter! Wait, you might be thinking, Easter happened a couple Sundays ago. Let’s recall, Easter is a season, not just a day when we have the second-best attended service of the year, an egg hunt for the kids and an amazing potluck. During this Easter Season we do our best to remember and live in the Resurrection, for fifty days. A couple of other days of remembrance and action happen during the season of Read more…
“Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.” –Mary Oliver
The Rev. Roxanne Friday will be joining us on Sunday, May 5 to preach and share her new work on the Wind River Reservation. As a gift to the Shoshone Episcopal Mission and St. David’s House, we will have a diaper drive and present Roxanne with much needed baby supplies for her community. Please bring diapers, pull-ups, wipes and diaper coupons for all size babies. Please drop them off in the Narthex or church office. Read more…
By now all of you have finished your Lenten homework, and if you haven’t perhaps it has occurred to you that “the grade is always A” according to my theology professor and to Jesus. We’ve landed in this season of Easter well prepared for new, refreshed, resurrected life with one another. The season, of course, is marked by joy and celebration. And, those two things—joy and celebration—guide our practice of Easter just as examination and Read more…
Join us on May 19th at the Youth Sunday Service to hear stories from our trip to Cuba from some of our youth travelers. All entering first and sixth grade and graduating seniors will be honored. Carlos, the official driver for the Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba and the unofficial tour guide for St. John’s Cuba trips, lifted suitcase after suitcase to the rooftop of the 1982 Toyota Coaster bus. As usual, Carlos reluctantly accepted an Read more…
St. John’s Church strives to provide childcare whenever possible to make programs of the church accessible to all parents. To ensure the access and operation of providing childcare St. John’s is revising the way it is offered for special events. Childcare will be available by request for special events. All requests must be made at least 14 days prior to the event. Childcare is available for children birth through 5th grade for church-related activities and Read more…
“They apologized. So what?” Join the library’s Power Trip series and Community Safety Network for a discussion as we deconstruct #MeToo apologies by individuals who have been called out for sexual misconduct, and explore the different paths that survivors have taken for healing and justice. Monday, April 22, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM Teton County Library, 125 Virginian Lane The conversation will be led by Community Safety Network’s Director of Prevention and Education. Read more…
St. John’s is practicing something new that’s actually very old: Evening Prayer, virtually! We meet on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Saying Evening Prayer — especially as a community — is a spiritual practice we can engage in as we follow “The Way of Love”. Give yourself permission to end your day prayerfully as you set out to spread love! Jump into our Zoom Room, let us know if you need the password by reaching out Read more…
As I was preparing for our last meeting on Pregnancy and Birth, I came across an African legend that I keep coming back to because of its manifold applications to what we are doing with Mindfulness for Mamas. It’s a story that has been used by tribes’ people to teach their young about facing fear. It got me thinking about our next gathering where the theme will be Building the Tribe, and I believe there’s Read more…