Events (Page 38)

Coventry Singers at St. John’s

The Coventry Singers present their Christmas concert “Silence . . . and the Glory” at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 2nd at St. John’s. The concert includes classical and traditional Christmas works including selections from Handel’s Messiah and Bach Cantata No. 142, “To Us a Child is Given.” More contemporary music includes pieces by Dan Forrest and Will Todd.…

Christmas Lessons & Carols

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 sixth day of Christmas, we will sing the glorious carols of Christmas and hear the sacred texts…

Christmas Pageant

Our Sunday school children will present a Christmas pageant as part of worship on Sunday, December 23rd at 10 a.m. (There will be one Sunday service that day as well as Evening Light on December 22nd at 5 p.m.). Please join us!

Hanging the Greens

Sunday, December 23rd promises to be filled with JOY! We will have ONE worship service beginning at 10 a.m. that will include our children’s Christmas pageant as well as Holy Communion. The children are very excited!!!! Following worship, the annual Hanging of the Greens will begin at about 11:30 a.m. Volunteers are needed to put…

First Communion Bread Baking

When children are baptized parents, godparents and the whole congregation promise to raise them in the faith and specifically to bring them to the table of grace—Holy Communion. Some of our children receive Holy Communion when they are quite young. Others do so after a period of instruction that is provided in fifth grade. On…

First Communion Bread Baking

When children are baptized parents, godparents and the whole congregation promise to raise them in the faith and specifically to bring them to the table of grace—Holy Communion. Some of our children receive Holy Communion when they are quite young. Others do so after a period of instruction that is provided in fifth grade. On…

Thanksgiving Weekend Intergenerational Sunday School

On Thanksgiving weekend the first through sixth grade Sunday school students will meet in Kley Hall where they will be led by our Confirmation students in learning about Advent and Christmas. The children will also design Christmas cards to be mailed to our new neighbors, inviting them to worship with us on Christmas Eve. Younger…

Newcomers’ Welcome and Brunch

On the weekend of October 13th and 14th, twelve adults and children knocked on the church door and asked to become part of the WAY—our newcomers’ group at St. John’s. (If you missed this and want to join St. John’s, there will be another The WAY beginning on March 10, 2019). Since then the children…

Angel Tree Creativity

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.…