Welcome to St. John's Episcopal Church!
Sun, Jan 25 - ONE service of Holy Eucharist at 9:00 am in St. Mary's Hall. The Annual Meeting has been postponed to next Sunday due to weather.
Wed, Jan 28 - Holy Eucharist @ 10:30 in St. Mary's Hall.
Sun, Feb 1 - ONE service of Holy Eucharist at 9:00 am in St. Mary's Hall. It will be followed by our Annual Meeting.
Wed, Feb 4 - Holy Eucharist with Monthly Healing Service @ 10:30 in St. Mary's Hall.
The sweep of easy wind and downy flake . . .
With a major winter storm heading in on Sunday, we are postponing the Annual Meeting. We will have the meeting on February 1st. Sunday, February 1st will now also be a single 9:00am Eucharist. With only light snow expected in the mid-morning, we are planning on having our 9:00am Eucharist in St. Mary’s Hall. As always with bad weather, if you have some ministerial role to play, stay home if it is not safe for you to come out. We are a flexible bunch on snow days, and God will be praised no matter what. Should the storm forecast shift with heavy snow in the morning, we will cancel the Eucharist. Church cancelations are reported to Channel 3 and on the website. If it is safe for you to come out, I hope to see you Sunday, if not, please join us for the Annual Meeting on February 1st.
Blessings,
Marc
St. John’s Episcopal Church in Vernon is a vibrant parish that shares the love of God with our community while caring for those within and outside of our parish. We are a congregation that prays both with our words and our actions.
Please join us for worship in-person or online. Our Sunday services are usually at 8:00 and 10:00. We stream on Facebook live; the link is in the menu above. We hope to see you soon.
Life at St. John's
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Our "Accessibility Project"
We are in the process of a major renovation to our church building to make it more accessible for people with physical challenges. Here are some pictures that show our progress. We will add more pictures as we make progress!
For more information about service and fellowship opportunities, please click on the "Ministries" tab above or click HERE.
We have offered our time and talent through service or in-kind contribution
Weekly serving Sunday dinner at Cornerstone Community Kitchen . . . Helping Hands Ministry providing small repairs, transportation, errands, etc. . . . Our Emergency Food Pantry . . . Holiday Bazaar to support various agencies such as MACC Charities and Cornerstone . . . Undie Sunday - Undergarments sent to MACC Charities and the 5 Vernon elementary schools . . . Hosting American Red Cross Blood Drives . . . . Christmas Toy and Coat collection . . . Many pounds of organic vegetables from our garden to Cornerstone Community Kitchen . . . Diaper drive for Gentle Love Diaper Pantry . . . Collection of backpacks and school supplies for local students and teachers. . . . Delivery of Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets for food-insecure families . . . Volunteering at MACC; food pantry, thrift store and community kitchen
And we offered our treasure
Food share . . . Cornerstone. . . Episcopal Relief & Development . . . St. Vincent School (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) . . . Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem . . . Tri-Town Fuel Bank . . . Camp Washington . . . Chrysalis Center . . . Hands on Hartford . . . Hawkwing (Cheyenne River Lakota Indian Nation) . . . Interval House . . . Hartford Habitat . . . KidSafe of Connecticut . . . . Arm-2-Arm (Haitian refugees in the Domincan Republic) . . . Friendship Soup Kitchen . . . IRIS . . . Mid-West Food Bank . . . Cougar Pantry (Manchester Community College) . . . Family & Comm. (East Hartford Schools) . . . Tree of Life (to support World Central Kitchen) . . . MACC Charities . . . Women’s League Child Development Center . . . Project Hope (formerly Windham Area No Freeze Project) . . . Gentle Love Connections . . . Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance . . . Red Hawk Food Pantry (at Manchester High School) . . . Bennet Academy Family Resource Center (Manchester Public Schools)
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The plain blue dots are addresses of many of our members. The blue dot with the white outline in the center is the church.