Welcome to our Parish website. We hope that you will find something here that both intrigues and encourages you to learn more about us and maybe to even visit us in person.

St. John's is a thriving and growing parish. We are blessed with wonderful Youth Group, who not only enjoy each other and their strong leadership. but also enjoy serving, worshiping and learning more about God and how He works in their lives. This past summer the St. John's Youth Group went on their second mission trip to Ocean City, New Jersey. Also, one of our young man represented St. John's at E.Y.E. (Episcopal Youth Event) at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Our parish has a fairly young median age, but we are blessed with quite a few multi-generational families that have grown up in our parish. How beautiful it is to see grandparents, parents and grandchildren all attending Sunday Services together. Also our Thursday morning Eucharist, which is held at 10 a.m., is growing in number and has become very special to those who attend - and the coffee hour on that day offers great fellowship!

Our Women's Group, known as the ECW, the Episcopal Church Women, are extremely active and work all year together to support outreach in their leadership of the Rummage Sale and Holiday Bazaar. They have taken on their own particular mission to support the Vincent De Paul Shelter, but their outreach is certainly not limited to this project. They are supportive of all the church endeavors and also, have a lot of fun together. The ECW meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7pm in the parish hall.

Our Sunday School - up to and including 5th grade, is also vibrant and involved. Following church school on Sunday mornings, the children join the Vicar for a Children's Homily, or a "Gathering of the Children" as we call it, and then join their families for the Holy Eucharist. The young children also look forward to taking up the collection of food for the Talbot's Food Pantry each Sunday.

Our parish continues to grow, with both young and not so young joining us. We recently welcomed 35 new members at our second annual Newcomers Dinner. What a delightful evening this was!

St. John's is dedicated to mission and we continue to participate in the cooking and serving of meals at the local Soup Kitchen, an ecumenical project. The young people also take leadership in this event at least two or three times a year.

We are excited to have recently begun a new parish ministry; our Parish Nurses Ministry, which is an extension of our wish to have a full caring ministry for the people of our church. We have two registered nurses and two licensed practical nurses who have taken the leadership in this ministry, ready to help those who need them, doing regular blood pressure screenings and offering at home help.

All of our people in leadership roles (clergy, vestry members, youth leaders, church school teachers and all church employees) have undergone Safe Church Training, which has been a wonderful learning experience for each one of them.

Our Vicar, Audrey, who has been with us for over two years, is supportive of all our ministries and continues to look forward to leading us as we continue to learn more of the all-encompassing love of God in our own lives, in our parish, in our community and in the wider world.

We are a welcoming community, excited about our journey of faith together and we hope that you will consider joining us for worship and maybe a cup of coffee after our service. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our parish family!