Amanda Wilson, BTK-8 Food Program Coordinator writes: “Thank you so much for the donation of Grocery Gifts cards as part of your Giving Tree. Our students and families appreciate your generosity. And thank you for your ongoing support of our Food Program. Happy New Year!”

Thank you to all who have supported St. John Parish during the past year. Your continued generosity, even in these ongoing difficult times, has helped us to sustain our Parish financially and to serve the ministries of St. John and the wider community.

As we do each year, we will be mailing a Tax Statement to all those on record as having made a donation to St. John Parish between 1/1/2021-12/31/2021. Look for them in your mailbox in the next week or so. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Teresa Gillett, Director of Parish Development, at 206-782-2810, or tgillett@stjohnsea.org with any questions you may have. Asante Sana.

The NORTHWEST CATHOLIC Collection will be taken up January 22nd and 23rd at all Masses. Through NORTHWEST CATHOLIC magazine, NWCatholic.org and social media, the Church is able to enter every home with a message of hope that the world so desperately needs, especially in this time of social separation. For this reason, NORTHWEST CATHOLIC is sent free of charge to every registered Catholic household in Western Washington. Your donation is a great way to share the gift of faith with others. Thank you for your past and continued support of this annual collection. Donate here now.

New Date! January 29 from 3-5pm

Join Us as We Walk with Holy Families and Save Asylum

Contact Joyce Farrell, Chair St. John Social Justice Committee, for more information at joycefarrell08@gmail.com 

Registration: www.ipjc.org/racial-justice/

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CYO Sports are open to all Parish members, even if you don't attend St John School.

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Pope Francis has tasked the bishops to canvass their congregations for input regarding initiatives we, the faithful, would like to see in the Church. These will be discussed at a synod of bishops that Pope Francis will convene in October, 2023. Archbishop Etienne has asked each parish in the Seattle Archdiocese to conduct listening sessions and develop a one-page summary of recommendations by early May, 2022. Father Crispin has asked Nicole Hardie, Lawrence Kent, and Jim Russell to organize and conduct these sessions at St. John. They will be speaking at the masses during the first week of February and convening sessions of volunteers beginning later that month. All parishioners are encouraged to join this process and contribute their ideas. Stay tuned for more information, or contact us via email at synod@stjohnsea.org.

We will start our classes remotely, in January 2022, with Confirmation scheduled for June 6, 2022. You can find the registration form here.

All Catholic youth in grades 7 and above are invited to join the preparation sessions. Please contact Julia Rudden at jrudden@stjohnsea.org with any questions, or to return your form electronically.

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology--East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish. Read more...

For location information or questions contact Diana Grusczynski at diana.grusczynski@outlook.com.

Twenty-three person-to-person visits were conducted (mostly outside due to COVID). On these visits we delivered 25 bags of food from the pantry, which is stocked with food donated by you. 

We gave $8,181 in rent assistance, $1,064 in help with utility bills, and $3,090 in other help -all of this funded by your generosity. 

We respond to requests usually within a week or less. We listen, and try to help with the immediate needs of the people we visit. We can only do this with your continuing support.