Please join us as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ordination of our beloved Pastor Tom Kochenderfer during our 10:45 a.m. worship on September 23rd. A reception and luncheon in Kley Hall will follow the worship. After graduating from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in 1968, Pastor Kochenderfer was called to Mediator Lutheran…
On Sunday, September 9th we will have ONE Sunday worship service beginning at 9 a.m., which will “kick-off” a new year of Sunday School with the blessings of our students and teachers. The service will specifically be planned to be child-friendly. Following worship, at 10 a.m., we will hear the Listening Report from the first…
Our 9th grade confirmation students decided to have a bake sale on Confirmation Day to help the Welcome Church. They met Pastor Violet and Pastor Schaunel on their Mission Day, and met the people who are homeless who are part of the Welcome Church community. Donations from their bake sale will be matched by our…
We honor our students on Sunday, June 3rd! At our 9 a.m. worship service, we recognize our graduates of high school, college and post-college programs. The St. John’s scholarships will also be officially awarded that day.
May 20th is the final day of children’s Sunday school for the year. Students of all ages will meet at 9:25 a.m. in Kley Hall with their parents and teachers. The Sunday school community will create a special rock garden, with each person painting a rock to represent how God makes each one of us…
We are excited to partner with St. Luke Lutheran Church in Devon for our very first Appalachia Service Project trip. We will be traveling to Kentucky by vans to help repair homes and buildings. Please pray for our youth and their adult leaders as they serve folks in Appalachia this summer!
Our brothers and sister at Congregation B’nai Jacob have invited us to participate in the Estelle B. Solomon 2018 Scholar-in-Residence Program. (Estelle was our neighbor on the southeast corner of our campus.) Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, a highly renowned scholar who serves as the University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, will serve as their first Scholar in Residence.…
On Sunday, May 6th, at 7:00 p.m., over 60 area singers join together in the twenty-eighth annual St. John’s Choir & Friends concert. This year’s program includes both sacred and secular selections including a set of Four Appalachian Carols set for brass quintet and choir and audience favorites Jingle Bells, The Christmas Song (chestnuts roasting…
On Pentecost, the fiftieth day of Easter, we celebrate the Spirit, through whom and in whom the people of God are created and re-created. Pentecost is sometimes called the Church’s birthday, but might more appropriately be called its baptism day, since the gift of the Spirit is the fullness of baptism. So it is most…
Cape May . . . here we come! On Friday, April 27th at 6 p.m. our 7th, 8th and 9th grade Confirmation students, along with their 10th-12th grade mentors, will meet at the church to head “down the shore” for the weekend for their spring retreat. (Please pray for nice, warm weather.) They’ll be camping…