You are invited to a family-friendly Advent party! A child-friendly dinner of salad and pizza will be served at 6:00 p.m., followed by some Advent activities and finishing with a special story at about 7:00 p.m. The evening ends by 7:30 p.m. The families of the Phoenixville Area Children’s Learning Center are invited to join…
By the morning of December 26th the radio stations and shopping malls that have been playing Christmas carols since Halloween cease the holiday music even though the celebration is just beginning! This year at our worship on the seventh day of Christmas, Sunday, December 31st at 10 a.m., we will sing the glorious carols of…
This year December 24th is both the Fourth Sunday of Advent and then, as evening comes, also Christmas Eve. There will be one Sunday morning worship service of Advent Lessons and Carols. The service will be shaped around the “O Antiphons” of the beloved Advent Hymn, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” An antiphon is the…
St. John’s welcomes the Capital Ringers in concert. The ensemble combines music on handbells, percussion instruments, movement, audience interaction, humor, visual technology, and an actor to create a “Holiday Classics” show that will appeal to all ages. This creative holiday performance will entertain and educate audiences with the timeless holiday songs you love. Selections include…
On Christmas Eve we celebrate God being born on earth as a poor Jewish child, whom we call Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. With the angels we sing, “Glory to God!” Please join us at one or more of our Christmas Eve services: Children’s Christmas Worship, 4 p.m. Christmas Music, 6:30…
This year’s Phoenixville Community Thanksgiving Eve worship will be at St. Ann’s Chapel in PHoenixville. Rabbi Jeffrey Sultar of B’nai Jacob Synagogue will serve as the preacher for this interfaith service. Guests are invited to bring canned/dry goods for the Food Pantry at Phoenixville Area Community Services. Monetary offering will be distributed by the Phoenixville…
The thirty-member Providence Chamber Orchestra presents its first concert of the 2017-2018 season at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 19th, at St. John’s. Tom Snyder, Director of Music at St. John’s conducts the ensemble. Performed will be Theme and Variations for strings by Alexander Glazunov, Christoph Gluck’s Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, Franz Schubert’s March Militaire Op. 51 No. 1, and featuring…
On Saturday, November 18th, Evening Light Worship begins at 5 p.m. in the sanctuary. Our St. John’s Thanksgiving dinner follows at 6 p.m. The Fellowship Committee provides the feast and welcomes gifts of sides and desserts. You are invited to come either to worship at 5 p.m. or dinner at 6 or BOTH! Guests are…
Join us for a time of intergenerational fellowship, learning and creativity as we hear about the important ministry we support at the Lutheran Secondary School for MaaSae Girls in Monduli, Tanzania. Every year, the St. John’s Angel Tree is the way we raise scholarship money for the five “St. John’s Girls” we support at the school.…
On All Saints’ Weekend, November 4th and 5th, we give thanks for the saints of every time and every place and especially remember those saints who have died in the past year. It is a “mini-Easter” in which we rejoice in the gift of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the promise…