St. John’s News

CAMPFIRE Presents: Freedom Finders

You can use the links below to schedule an Enneagram Discovery Typing session with either Carrie or Pauline. Other resources and podcasts can be found here. CAMPFIRE presents: Carrie Kirkpatrick + Pauline Towers-Dykeman of Freedom Finders | September 14, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Virginian Saloon. Like, share and RSVP here on Facebook! A conversation on passion, temperament, our beautifully complex personalities, and finding freedom through the Enneagram. Am I unique? Do I have a Read more…

Wear Overalls to Church Day

Wear Your Overalls to Church Day is coming on a Sunday, September 21 at the 10:00 a.m. service. Come as you are—overalls encouraged! After worship, we’ll roll up our sleeves to move Browse ‘n Buy from its current building into our temporary home on the St. John’s campus. We’ll be rolling racks of clothing and need plenty of strong hands to help with heavier sorting tables and counters. Chili will be provided so no one Read more…

Second Sunday Cookout

Coffee Hour is a time of fellowship and socializing – a time to catch up with friends and acquaint yourself with new people of the congregation. At St. John’s, we have a wonderful tradition of connection and hospitality and Coffee Hour is an integral part of that fellowship. Join us on Sunday, September 14 following the 10:00 a.m. Family Service we will enjoy a special coffee hour on the lawn with a bounce house and Read more…

Old Bill’s Giving Season

Please remember St. John’s Church in your Old Bill’s giving this year. The annual giving season started on August 15 and runs through 5:00 p.m. on September 12. Please consider donating with a check payable to Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. Donors may also give online. The love-spreading difference makers have helped transform our community through love. Old Bill’s has brought an astounding $280 million philanthropic dollars to our community. These funds are busy feeding Read more…

Meet Stephanie Spellers

We welcome back the Rev. Stephanie Spellers for one week only on Sunday, August 24 at The Chapel of the Transfiguration. The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers around 21st-century ministry and mission. The author of The Church Cracked Open and Radical Welcome, she recently wrapped up nearly a decade as canon to the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. She currently serves as Canon in Residence at St. Read more…

CAMPFIRE presents: Matt Daly + Nanci Turner Steveson with young authors reading

CAMPFIRE presents: Matt Daly + Nanci Turner Steveson with young authors reading | Aug 10, 6-7:30p at the Virginian Courtyard (all ages!) A conversation on the lift of writing and teaching with two celebrated local authors and educators. Matt Daly is the author of The Invisible World and Between Here and Home (Unsolicited Press) and the chapbook Red State (Seven Kitchens Press). He edited the chapbook Untrapped for Wyoming Untrapped. Matt is the recipient of a Read more…

August

Our Centennial Celebration at the Chapel of the Transfiguration was a beautiful thing indeed. So much love, food, music. So many beautiful people gathered to celebrate 100 years of love at the heart of this church and the heart of this valley. Well done, all who made it happen and all who attended. I was having a conversation with a couple guys before dinner, one relative newcomer to the valley, one old timer. The newcomer Read more…

Everyone Deserves to Have Health and Hope

AMOS Health and Hope in Nicaragua is dedicated to reducing preventable deaths and improving the health and well-being of people who suffer from the unjust conditions of poverty. AMOS’ programs empower local leaders to build upon their strengths and respond to the needs they identify within their communities. Since 2023, St. Johns has sent a mission team annually to work with AMOS to help support this work. Clean water is essential to health, so we Read more…

Meet Becca, Our August Chaplain

Meet our early August summer chaplain at The Chapel of the Transfiguration. The Rev. Becca Stevens is a nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, priest, survivor, and founder of Thistle Farms. She has founded 12 nonprofits and justice enterprises, mentored another 70, and has raised over $75 million to support them. Becca has authored 12 books and sold over 300,000 copies. She has served as chaplain at St. Augustine’s Chapel on Vanderbilt’s campus for almost 30 years. Becca Read more…

Meet Bill, Our July Chaplain

Meet Bill Knutson, our July chaplain at The Chapel of the Transfiguration. The Rev. William Knutson is priest-in-charge at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ojai, California. A graduate of Occidental College and Episcopal Divinity School, he is passionate about discipleship rooted in care for place and planet, and about embodied spiritual practices that integrate breath, movement, and contemplation. He is a founding member of The Abundant Table, a farm-based ministry rooted in food justice and Read more…