Join Us on YouTube this Sunday for a Service of Morning Prayer
Sunday, August 16
Facebook live at 9:00 a.m. and on YouTube anytime
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Worship with us on Sunday, virtually! Click on the YouTube image above to participate. There will be music, prayer and preaching.
Watch it together "live" with others at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on our Facebook page or you may choose to participate at your usual service time (7:45 a.m., 9:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m.), or any other time you like.
Feel free to share the link with others.
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You Are Invited to Join Our "Sacred Ground" Dialogue on Race and Faith
Sunday, August 23 at 9:30 a.m. | Online via Zoom
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Following our congregational meetings in June, we are now embarking upon a year-long journey to explore issues of race and faith, and what these mean specifically for St. John’s, Lafayette Square as a gathered community. Using as our base the "Sacred Ground" dialogue program designed by the Episcopal Church, small dialogue circles will read, watch, consider, discuss and pray together about a wide range of materials designed to make us more deeply consider — whatever our ethnicity — our response as individuals and as a community to issues of race in our lives, in our country, and in our church.
The program will start in September, and is open to any interested adult member of the Saint John’s congregation. The Rev. Will Morris, and other members of the planning group, will host an introductory meeting to explain more about Sacred Ground, review some of the materials, and answer questions at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 23 (in place of the coffee hour). Please send a message here for a link to participate. You can also view some of the Sacred Ground materials here and here. We so hope that many of you will feel able to join us on this journey.
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St. John's Speaker Series
Sunday, August 23, 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. | Online via Zoom | Register Below
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Join us Sunday, August 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., for a discussion led by Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation's largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization, and former mayor (1994-2002) of New Orleans. Following the discussion, there will be opportunity for Q&A.
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You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for the meeting. |
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Speaker Series Schedule
Online via Zoom
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September 13: John Barry, award-winning author of several books including the best-selling The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. An advisor to the Bush and Obama White Houses and to the United Nations and WHO on pandemic preparedness and response, he is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He will speak on The Great influenza Pandemic of 1918: Lessons Learned and Not Learned--and Where We Are Now.
September 20: Christian Appy, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will speak about the Vietnam War.
September 27: Elaine Pagels, American religious historian and the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She will speak on her book, Why Religion, A Personal Story.
October 4: Jim Tankersley, covers economic and tax policy for The New York Times. Over more than a decade covering politics and economics in Washington, he has written extensively about the stagnation of the American middle class and the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country. He will speak on his upcoming book, The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class.
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Virtual Coffee Hour with the Rev. Savannah Ponder
Sunday, August 16, 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. | Online via Zoom
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The Sunday coffee hour this week will be hosted by the Rev. Savannah Ponder. Join us Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., for a Zoom coffee hour, to socialize, catch up, and talk about the service.
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Bible Study
Sunday, August 16 at 10:00 a.m. | Online via Zoom
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Service of Compline
Monday to Friday, 8:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
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Compline is a service for the completion of the day or Night Prayer. Join us at 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday for this peaceful liturgy as our day ends.
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Summer Christian Formation for Children
Sundays | Online via Zoom
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Summer Christian Formation for children will take place as pre-recorded video sessions emailed to parents each Sunday morning by 7:00 a.m.
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Service of Evening Prayer
Sunday, August 16, 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. | Online via Zoom
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Centering Prayer
Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. | Online via Zoom
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St. John's Youth
Monday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m. | Online via Zoom
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Book Group
Thursday, September 3 at 6:45 p.m. | Online via Zoom
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The 2020 Fall Adult Inquirers' Class
Saturdays, September 19, September 26, and October 3
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon | Online via Zoom
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If you would like to be baptized, confirmed, or received into membership in the Episcopal Church at St. John’s, we invite you to join the Adult Inquirers’ Class. The class will meet online via Zoom for three Saturdays for 90 minutes each day. The Zoom sessions will include breakout groups to provide a relaxing, engaging way for participants to get to know each other. The Rev. Rob Fisher, Rector of St. John’s, will lead the sessions. Anyone – newcomer or longtime parishioner – interested in learning more about our Christian faith and life, the Episcopal tradition, and the ministry of St. John’s Church, is encouraged to attend.
For more information or to register, please contact Kaye Edwards. Those who participate in the class, or have completed another inquirers’ class, may attend a Service of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation of Baptismal Vows at a date to be determined.
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If you are interested in having a child baptized, or in baptism for yourself, please contact Kaye Edwards. Please note that the parents or grandparents of children being baptized must be active, pledging members of St. John’s. Adults interested in baptism for themselves must attend the Rector’s Adult Inquirers’ Class and be active, pledging participants in the life of the parish.
To help give families options during this extraordinary time, and until St. John's is open for full Sunday services, the Rector will discuss options to a church service with families, including baptisms at home (and preferably outdoors) or a private baptism at the church. All baptisms must comply with health and safety guidelines.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting our St. John's community in many ways. St. John's parishioners have expressed the desire to help their neighbors during this difficult time. Please use this form to let us know if you:
- Can provide support for someone in need or
- Are in need of support.
We will do our best to connect those in need with those who are able to help. If you are not comfortable using this form, please send us an email at help@stjohns-dc.org with your name, contact information and details of the type of support you can give or the support you need.
In addition to this direct support from parishioners, our Rector, the Rev. Rob Fisher, has an emergency fund for those who may be in need of financial assistance. If you are in need of financial assistance or would like to contribute to the emergency fund, please reach out directly to the Rev. Rob Fisher.
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Our prayers are requested for the special needs and concerns of this congregation, especially:
Those who are sick or recovering:
From our parish: Eve Atkeson, Bill Brownlee, Bobbie Falk, Susan Herrington, Nelda Johnson, Bob Patchell, Dace Vidins, and Jeff White.
Friends and family of our parish: Niels Beck (Michelle Mangrum), Diane Bender (Peter Odom), Buckley (Chrystal Martin), Tom Burkart (Pamela Venzke), John Frew Carter (Margo Arnold), Bill Clark (Clark Ervin), Brian Cohen (Jane Hague), Harry Davis (Mary and Carl Raether), Karl Dornemann (Deb Dornemann), Bobby Doyle (Alex Pappas), Ruth B. Ginsburg (Riley Temple), Courtney Jordan Hillman (Erika Northcutt), Lucas Hunt (Matthew Taylor), Tom Kiernan (Joanne Hutton), Amy Lowenthal (Andrew Tomlinson), William Markiewicz (Matthew Taylor), Tammy McCleaf (Matthew Taylor), Kevin Milstead (Andrew Tomlinson), Timothy Mullins (Jim Mullins), Zach Newton (Andrew Tomlinson), Judy Nicola (Cynthia Walker), Ginger Parra (Leila Taaffe), Charles Pope (John More), Lloyd Poplin (Joy and Dick Nathan), Cawley Scott (Robyne Johnston), Zoe Taaffe (Leila Taaffe), Garland Treadway (Karen Zachary), and Gabriel Van Oyen (Carolyn Crouch).
Those who are in rehabilitative care:
From our parish: Max Hudgins and Marcella Odom.
Those who are in the hospital:
Friends and family of our parish: Keili Geller (Kaye Edwards), James Hodges (Matthew Taylor), Julie Howell (Cynthia Walker), Vera Hyncik (Holly Sukenik), Phyllis Lambert (Will Morris), Chase Madar (Rob Fisher), Gina Robinson (Matthew Taylor), Travis Rogers (Robert Carroll), and Mary Seidman (Nora and Hap Rigby).
Those who are in hospice care:
Friends and family of our parish: Judy Adams (Sarah Agnew) and Steve Heidenberger (Jane Hague).
Those in our parish celebrating a birthday this week: Jeff Bozman, Jordan
Baugh, Davis Hampe, Jan Lupton, Peter Odom, Ugo Owunwanne, Heather Pasley, Charles Schwartz, Bard Sullenger, and Hadley Sullenger.
Those in our parish celebrating an anniversary this week: Carolyn Harris and Clark Ervin, Katherine and Pete Kyle, Gini and Harker Rhodes, Alexian Wines and Christopher Semkow, and Karen and Wes Williams.
For those on the frontlines in the coronavirus pandemic, especially:
Friends and family of our parish: Janie Abernethy (Elizabeth Lewis and David Abernethy), Sandra Brown (Becca Brown), Nathan Cobb (Livy and John More), Chris Gardner (Ann Gardner), Yee Houston (Quin Woodward Pu), and Marta Kochanska (Livy and John More).
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Email Whaling/Phishing Scams Persist
Be Aware and Don't Be A Victim!
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Again, community members have received messages purporting to be from the Rev. Rob Fisher, asking for favors and gift card purchases. These emails are not from Rob!
Rob and the rest of the staff at St. John's Church will never email anyone asking for gift card purchases. Treat this as a red flag and report it to staff immediately.
Any email from clergy or staff will have an address that ends with stjohns-dc.org. Common phishing/whaling attempts use very similar looking email addresses from free services like Gmail or Yahoo.
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St. John’s Mask Project Number Two Now Helps Needy Hispanic Immigrants |
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Since early Spring, the St. John’s Refugee Committee, in an effort to serve both those suffering with Covid-19 and those on the medical team at George Washington Hospital fighting Covid-19, commissioned an Afghan refugee family to sew surgery masks to supplement the hospital’s supply of N-95 masks. The refugee, a former translator for the U. S. Military, was furloughed due to the pandemic. Sewing masks gave the family some income and kept the masks flowing.
We were able to provide George Washington Hospital with 521 Surgery Masks through the hard work of our refugee friends and the generosity of St. John’s. The supply of N-95 is now adequate at most hospitals, so the project organizers, Gay and Bob Pasley, are seeking donations from St. John’s parishioners who would like to help keep the refugee family employed and see that quality masks can be donated to needy members of our community.
Around July 4th, a request came to us from the Outreach Committee of Christ Church in Alexandria, VA. Volunteers there had been delivering groceries to Hispanic immigrants in dire need. Volunteers discovered there was a severe shortage of adult and children masks. St. John’s has been asked to supply as many masks as it can. This community of Arlandria has been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the most recent test results indicating that these residents represent 50% of Alexandria’s Covid-19 cases. We appreciate your support for the project and ask that you continue to donate by clicking on the button below and choosing “Refugee Project” from the Fund drop-down menu. For more information, contact the Pasleys here.
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Reflections and Updates from the Rector
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Episcopal Diocese of Washington Covid-19 Emergency Relief Appeal |
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Many of us are asking how we can help during this pandemic. In our Diocese, we are seeing members of our churches suffering from food insecurity and other hardships. Congregations in low-income communities are an essential part of an increasingly fragile safety net for their most vulnerable neighbors.
To support the most vulnerable parishes, the diocese has suspended the Annual Bishop’s Appeal for the diocesan budget and has replaced it with a Covid-19 Emergency Relief Appeal.
St. John’s parishioners have shown a desire to support others through this crisis. If you would like to help, supporting this relief fund would be an excellent way. You can make a gift on the diocesan website at this link: https://www.edow.org/about/giving.
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As many of you know, LinkedIn is the top online business networking platform, with over 630 million registered members. While used primarily to list career and business interests, it also allows you to list (and link) outside interests, memberships and affiliations, including places of worship. As part of our outreach into the community and world of work, we invite you to list your membership (and roles) at St. John's. This will allow others who might be interested in St. John's to connect with you, and also show our interest in, and relevance to, the world of work.
We have set up a St. John's LinkedIn page, and would welcome congregational participation in building out and populating the page.
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St. John's Church, Lafayette Square
1525 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
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