Lent begins with ashes and dust. On Ash Wednesday we are marked with ashes—a sign of our death and of our sorrow for sin. However the ashes trace a cross on our forehead, where the baptismal water first marked us with God’s grace. You are invited to worship at St. John’s on Ash Wednesday at…
Please note the change of date to March 3rd from March 10th! Everyone is invited to a delicious spaghetti dinner to support the scholarship fund of the Phoenixville Area Children’s Learning Centers. The menu includes all you can eat pasta (including gluten-free pasta), salad, meatballs, sausage and garlic bread and desserts. There will be raffle…
Everyone is invited to our dinner and movie night! Dinner will be make-your-own pizza with the movies beginning at approximately 7 p.m. For children, the movie will be Moana, and for adults, Hidden Figures. Sign up on the Yellow Communication Card.
Before the “fast of Lent” begins, we go “a little wild.” In New Orleans, it’s Mardi Gras. In Phoenixville, it’s PANCAKES! Eating pancakes, running while flipping pancakes, tossing pancakes, making pancake self-portraits and creating pancake art—we do it all! Our Pancake Dinner will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 13th in…
Our children aged 3 through 5th grade will present a Christmas pageant at the 10:45 a.m. service on Sunday, December 17th. Please join us!
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…