Our Sunday School class for children ages 2 - 4 starts this Sunday, September 8. This year, the children will attend the first part of the service with their parents in the church. After the reading of the gospel, the teacher and children will process out the side door and to their class in room 215. The class will end by 10:45 and the children will join their parents at coffee hour. Parents are welcome to attend the class with their children, if they would like. After September, the class will meet on the first Sunday of each month. The curriculum is provided. If you would be interested in helping with this class, please let Carol know.
Hurricane Dorian - As these E-Notes go out on Wednesday, we already know that the Bahamas have been devastated, and many areas destroyed, by this hurricane. We have yet to see what damage might come to the US. Episcopal Relief and Development is already collecting funds to assist our neighbors during this disaster. Click here for more information and to
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Our Education for Ministry (EfM) class starts this Monday night, September 9, and will meet weekly for 9 months. We have 6 students enrolled in the class, all in their third year, which is the study of church history.
Coffee Hour -
As this Sunday is the second Sunday of the month, the St. John's choir will provide the Coffee Hour snacks this Sunday.
Many thanks go to......
-Susie and Larry Pike and Tom McDermott for spending several hours at church on Labor Day to find where the ceiling leak was coming from in rooms 216, 217 and 218, and then cleaning up the mess that the leak made.
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Sam Cameron who also came on Labor Day to continue to work on the boxwoods and the trees growing in them in the cemetery.
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the IT Committee who have spent countless hours fixing, upgrading and taking care of the office computers. Committee members include David Weir, David Daniel Weir, John Tucker, Tom McDermott, Dan Jones, and Carl Belso. Some of them were here on Labor Day as well, which was good because they found the leak in the ceiling!
Did you know... that countless volunteers are in and out of St. John's during the week, doing the work that helps us all as a community of faith? The treasurer comes in weekly to sign checks, IT Committee members come in to update and fix computer problems, other volunteers are upgrading our phone system, volunteers help keep the property looking good, Altar Guild members take home soiled linens and return then clean and ironed, volunteers come in twice a week to assist in the office, several volunteers have been cleaning up room 217/218 after several leaks. St. John's is not a Sunday only operation. It takes the work of all our parishioners to keep St. John's going as an active community of faith. Many thanks to all who give of their time and talent and resources to St. John's.
The Lane's Mill Chapter of the Daughter's of the American Revolution (DAR) has volunteered to clean the headstones in our cemetery on Friday, October 11 (rain date - October 16). They will receive careful instruction by a restoration specialist who knows how to clean them without damaging them any further. Many thanks to the DAR for choosing St. John's cemetery as the focus of their Day of Service.
Our prayers and condolences go to....
-Lee Johnson and Barbara Tourtelot, and their daughter Emily Johnson Stanton, (long time St. John's members) on the death of Lee and Barbara's infant grandson, Tadhg Lee Stanton. Lee and Barbara were fellow pilgrims on the trip to Jerusalem in January.
-Walt Conner on the death of his friend Randy Bueter.
