Romans 12 Place Your Life Before God So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed Read more…
Teton County Sheriff’s Office, Jackson Police Department and Trefonas Law, PC invite you to a free presentation with Law Enforcement & Immigration Attorneys. Topics Include: October 5, 2017 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm St. John’s Church, Hansen Hall Sponsors: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Immigrant Hope, Teton County Access to Justice, One 22, Latino Services Network, Teton County Library
“Following God into the Fall” That’s a phrase I’ve been playing around with in my mind and heart during my own quiet time over the course of the last few weeks. What does it look like to follow God into the fall here in Jackson? I know my summer was a busy one. It seems that’s true for most of us here in Jackson. Our community swells with part-time residents, we operate three church campuses, Read more…
Scouting for Food is an annual event orchestrated by the local Boy Scouts. Flyers will be put on doors of homes across the area to remind people to fill bags with non-perishable food. On October 28, scouts return to collect the bags. If you do not receive a flyer on your door, please drop your donations in the bins at your grocery store of choice. This food is distributed to needy families throughout the community Read more…
Do you want to be an Elf this Christmas? The Santa Fund is looking for Elves to shop for children in need in Teton County. Santa pays for all of the gifts, you just have to shop and wrap! Email scfund307@gmail.com or amy@one22jh.org for more information. Santa will email you with important information about Elf Meetings. The gifts will be delivered to Hansen Hall on December 18 by the Elves so a Merry Christmas is Read more…
Don’t Miss this Opportunity! I want to invite you one more time to join so many people from our church and our valley this evening for the movie premier The Secret to Peace. The movie follows the life of Father Ubald, a Roman Catholic priest and Rwandan Genocide survivor. Father Ubald’s story is remarkable—a real opportunity to nurture and grow our faith. Please don’t miss this opportunity. Tickets are available at The Center for the Read more…
All 5th, 6th, and 7th graders are invited to participate in a night of cooking and film watching with 50 Arapaho youth on Sunday, October 1 from 4:00 to 8:30 p.m. We’ll cook tacos together from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. in Hansen Hall. From there we’ll walk to the Center for the Arts for the PBS premiere of “Native Americas” at 7 p.m. Pick up at the Center at 8:30 p.m.
by Trey Overdyke The Tetons are going to be here for a while, but our community is a much more fragile resource. And, it’s the community that creates such a sense of place for me. My story is probably similar to many of the folks here at St. John’s – I jumped at an opportunity to live and work in a spectacular part of the world. However, I never expected to find St. John’s. We Read more…
by Cora Ligori I’ve witnessed lives changed throughout our community. I have seen our youth experience the gospel and learn how to serve one another, the way Jesus led us to do by example. In the summer of 2007, I married Jim Ligori and he immediately moved me from my generational home in Western North Carolina to his hometown of Jackson. We naturally attended St. John’s on a regular basis. Jim has been a part Read more…
The same weekend that we were enjoying the last few sunny days of summer here in Jackson and gathering our church together on Consecration Sunday, we watched as Houston and other Texas Gulf Coast communities came apart under the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. Many of you have asked me about my mom, who lives in Houston. Thank you. She’s fine and was spared from the devastation that fills our social media feeds and television Read more…