Blog
News from the life of the parish today, and stories from more than four centuries of its history.
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Heritage Group Seeks Hidden History
In a corner of the copy room of the Parish House stands a vintage, heavy-metal safe, which holds great wealth. Rather than cash, it protects about a dozen large, priceless volumes of vestry minutes and…
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Our Church in the 20s — the 1620s!
As we enter a new decade of worship at St. John’s it is interesting to look back through the centuries at the history of our parish.
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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…
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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.