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Parish Life
News and happenings from the life of the parish today.
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The Lil’ Free Pantry: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The Little Free Pantry (LFP) program is built around neighbors helping neighbors. This would not have happened without the compassion of our youth who wanted to help their neighbors in need.
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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 Summer of Mission: Lunch Program, Rise Against Hunger and a Habitat Faith Build
This was a busy summer where St. John’s shared God’s love in action and created a time of change, of mission, of stewardship and of transformation.
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Night’s Welcome Week at St. John’s, February 2018
Night’s Welcome had a very welcoming presence for the guests of H.E.L.P. the week of February 3rd through 10th. Each night brought a different number of guests ranging from 47 to as many as 61.
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The Academy of Music at St. John’s Begins in the Hoffman House
The Hoffman House is a two-story property owned by St. John’s right next to the church building. So we decided to see if we could open a music academy in this space that would offer…
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Vacation Bible School 2017: Abundance Orchard
The week of August 7th-10th, St. John’s hosted 16 children ages 1½-11 years old for Vacation Bible School. The theme was Abundance Orchard: where faith grows and hungry people are fed.
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The Music Ministry’s Year: Highlights from 2016
The Music Ministry at St. John’s Church remains an active ministry dedicated to making opportunities for the congregation to offer their God given talents in all areas of music and drama.
