Blog
2019
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Tucker Descendant Visits St. John’s
William Tucker is an important name in St. John’s history. Four hundred years later the baby William Tucker has thousands of descendants, speculates Shelton Tucker, and he is one of them.
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Cemetery News: Cleaning and Restoring the 19th-Century Tombstones
For the past two months, Alan Haines has been cleaning, restoring, and, when possible, repairing the 19th century tombstones and monuments around the perimeter of the church.
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Our Outreach: A Community Partnership with Hunter B. Andrews School
Did you know that St. John’s is a community partner with Hunter B. Andrews PK-8 School? For the past six years we have provided financial support and volunteers.
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A Night’s Welcome, 2019
With a tremendous amount of help from our own parishioners and friends, we welcomed men, women, and children who currently find themselves homeless.
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The CommUNITY Service of February 17, 2019
About 200 members and visitors attended the COMMUNITY SERVICE, an event of the Hampton 2019 Commemorative Commission. As the Church at Kecoughtan, the ancestor of St. John’s, was here in 1619, it is appropriate that…
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A Piece of History: The First Africans in 1619
St. John’s, founded in 1610, is the oldest church in continuous service in English-speaking North America. As the church was in the community when the first documented Africans arrived at Point Comfort in 1619, the…
