Our Annual Meeting is this Sunday, January 25th, 2026. Our worship service will start an hour earlier at 9AM and the meeting will immediately follow. During the meeting, we will elect new vestry members and elect delegates to attend the diocesan convention. We will also discuss what 2026 will look like for St John's Parish Church.

We have five nominees for vestry: Jake Barker, Stan LaRoche, Katherine Monroe, Becky Nisoff and Jay Withington. Click here for a PDF with short bios on each and prayerfully consider which four to elect at our annual meeting.

Please join us for our confirmation service on February 1. We have nine parishioners who Bp. Mark Lawrence will confirm or receive this year. A light reception to follow.

Dear St. John’s Parish Church Family,

I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing to share something deeply important to me and to invite you to partner with me in prayer and support as I prepare for a mission trip to Uganda from February 10th to March 19th, 2026...

Mark your calendars to join us on February 17 for Shrove Tuesday. We will have a fun night of Pancakes and Bingo in Resurrection Hall starting at 6PM with prizes for the whole family.

Join us on Ash Wednesday, February 18, at noon for our contemplative service or at 7PM for our service with music. Both services will be held in Resurrection Hall.

Our GriefShare group will start a new session Tuesday, February 24, at 6:30-8:00PM in the library at Resurrection Hall. If you are interested in participating or for more information, please contact Robin or Richard LaRoche.

GriefShare is a safe place where hurting individuals can find hope and healing after the death of a loved one. It is a seminar/support group ministry designed to be lay-led, and it consists of videos, discussion time and participant workbooks that guide group members through each session.

The Oyster Roast Fundraiser to provide scholarships for Ugandan Clergy's Children will be March 7 from 4PM-6PM. Please mark you calendars to save the date. More info to come.

Our friends at Rockville Presbyterian wanted us to know that their annual Oyster Roast Fundraiser for Costa Rica Missions has been rescheduled. It is now scheduled for January 31 at 5PM. For more information, please contact Rockville Presbyterian.

As we start the new year, please be on guard for scam emails and texts. There is always a rise in scams this time of year, and scammers are constantly changing tactics to try to trick us.

Some red flags to watch out for in your emails and texts:

-Undue urgency
-A request for secrecy
-A vague purpose or subject line

Please note that all of the St John's Parish Church staff have an email address which ends with "@stjohnsparish.net". The most effective way to check if an email is a scam is to check if the email address matches the address of who supposedly sent it. 

If you ever receive an email from anyone at St John's Parish Church —be it staff or parishioner— which you are unsure about, call the Parish Office. Do not reply to the email or click on any links before verifying it's authenticity.

We are off to a great start this new year!  Our children, from Pre-K though 5th grade, are learning about Jesus in His younger years and deepening their understanding of who He is and how much He loves us.  Over the past few weeks, lessons have included the visit of the Wise Men, Jesus teaching in the temple as a young boy and Jesus’ baptism by His cousin, John the Baptist.  This coming week, the children will learn about Jesus calling His disciples to be his helpers.  We will learn how they listened and obeyed when Jesus called them saying, “Come, follow me” --Matthew 4:19.   We are grateful for our teachers and volunteers who deliver His message to our children every Sunday morning and for the continued support of our parish families.

We meet every 2nd Saturday of the month at 8AM at Resurrection Hall, beginning with breakfast and fellowship at 8AM, then from 9 to 12, we work on decks, wheelchair ramps or minor home repairs. You don’t need to bring any tools, but if you have a favorite hammer and cordless drill, that will be fine. Contact Stephen Haynsworth for more information or to be added to the text group for this ministry.

The flowers are given to the glory of God
and in honor of Katherine Dixon Monroe’s birthday
by the Dixon family.

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If you would like to dedicate Altar Flowers in 2026 in honor or remembrance of a loved one, please contact Sally at sdixon@stjohnsparish.net.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Together we are united with the saints of the household of God; built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone. In Christ alone our church is being joined together, and is growing into a holy temple of the Lord by the Spirit. By Your wisdom may we discern what You want us to build; Through Jesus Christ our Lord and the power of the Holy Spirit,

Amen.

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