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8:00 AM Rite II
9:00 AM Coffee Hour
9:15 Passion of Jesus Study
10:00 AM Rite II: Choir & Sunday School
Click either button to watch the livestream
Visit our virtual worship page for the Sunday Bulletin
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THANK YOU to all who attended our Pancake Breakfast last Sunday! We raised over $500 for a future mission trip! | |
Please note: Rev Jill will be away March 12-16. Please contact Danielle Yoch or Dick Constable if you need emergency Pastoral Care during that time. | |
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Women on the Way
March 19 @ 7 PM – Creative Event: Stitches of Faith - Knit/Crochet event – bring a project or come & learn (or just come for the fellowship). Meeting in the Battin Room. More details here.
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Saint Johns at the Blue Rocks
Reserve your seat at the Wilmington Blue Rocks baseball game. The game is Friday, June 6 at 6:30 pm. The price of the tickets is $13 per seat. It is fireworks night. Invite your family and friends to join us. We are sitting behind home plate, just below the press box. See Steve Long between the services during coffee hour to reserve your tickets or email him.
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Lenten Retreat: The Meaning of the Cross
Saturday, March 22 from 9:00-11:30
Last year, Margie Hatcher and I lead our first inter-generational Lenten program on the Stations of the Cross. In Sunday School and Youth Group, we had our teens and youngest members decorate masks to depict what Jesus may have felt during his last day. And on one Saturday in March, two dozen parishioners from 12 years old to 90 gathered to create more images that we used when we created our Stations of the Cross installation for our Good Friday worship experience.
This year, we will again have an all-ages Lenten Retreat on Saturday, March 22nd. Gathering in the Battin Room for breakfast, we will have a time of prayer and meditations on the meaning of the Cross through history lead by Margie and me.
The rest of the morning will be spent in small groups or as individuals as you create your own images of what the Cross means for you. We will incorporate these crosses into our Stations of the Cross Walk on Good Friday, April 18th. Use your imagination as you create a unique object or item; it can be a craft, poetry, painting, or writing prayers for St. John's. We'll provide supplies - paint, pictures, paper, etc. - and you will get the chance to show what the the Cross choose means to your faith.
Sunday School and Youth Group will also be creating crosses for our Good Friday worship.
This is a great way to connect and share what the season of Lent means to you, as well as learn about our individual faith journeys and our journey as a church.
We hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Rev Jill
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Tuesday Evenings – The Chosen
Tuesdays, beginning March 11 at 6pm in the Battin Room.
Enter into the Gospel stories in a new way. The Chosen: Season 2 brings the ancient world of 1st century Palestine into vivid reality, balancing beauty, story-telling, and historical accuracy. Each episode takes a deep look at Jesus and the lives of those he encountered as he began his ministry.
Gathering on Tuesday evenings during Lent, we’ll share a simple meal of soup, salad, and bread, and watch one or two episodes. Following the show, we’ll discuss what we’ve learned and how this challenges or deepens our faith in the Son of God.
Please sign up to bring something for our meal together
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Morning Meditations
2nd & 4th Thursdays at 10:45 AM
“Understanding Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount”
Jesus taught in many ways: both by his actions and through his words. One of his famous blocks of teaching are found in section of Matthew’s Gospel titled “The Sermon on the Mount” – but, this isn’t really a sermon! It’s a series of discrete teachings, each of which could be the basis of a lecture, a community study, or a personal meditation. We’ll spend 6 weeks looking into several of these sections.
Thursday, March 13 – None
Thursday, March 27 – Practicing Piety (Scripture focus: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18)
Thursday, April 10 – How Jesus Taught Us to Pray (Scripture focus: Matthew 6:7-14)
Thursday, April 24 – Finding Treasure, Releasing Anxiety (Scripture focus: Matthew 6:19-34)
Thursday, May 8 – Seeing Clearly (Scripture focus: Matthew 7:1-12)
Thursday, May 22 – Building on Rock (Scripture focus: Matthew 7:13-28)
(Stay after for our Healing Eucharist at 11:30 or come ahead of time at 10 AM for our Thursday Café!)
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Spring Cleanup Day:
Saturday, March 22 – 8 AM – 12 Noon
Tasks for the day will include general grounds clean up, weeding and spreading mulch in flower beds. Come for any part of the time you can. Gloves, rakes and garden gear encouraged.
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We are once again collecting small Easter candy. Drop off your donation at the Welcome Center through April 13. Thank you! | |  |
Coffee hour hosts needed: this is a fun job you can do with your whole family. Signup here or on the clipboard in the Parish Hall. | | |
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Parkinson's Support Group
1st Wednesday of the Month (usually)
Next one is
April 2 @ 1:30 PM to 3 PM
More info here.
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A supply of shawls are available in the church and parish hall: please take a shawl for anyone who needs one.
More shawls will soon be needed. If you knit or crochet, please speak with Rev. Jill or Carla Durdan to learn more about making prayer shawls.
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An Evensong for Lent - "I was a sojourner and you took me in."
Sun. Mar. 23, 2025 at 4 pm at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral
19 S. 38th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
A service of Choral Evensong will take place at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral on Sunday, March 23 at 4 pm featuring Cathedral Singers, Dr. Thomas Lloyd, Canon for Music, and Erik Meyer, Organist. The readings and music for this Evensong will focus on the scriptural theme of welcoming the stranger, the sojourner, and the refugee. The choral repertoire will include works by Duke Ellington, Herbert Howells, T. Tertius Noble, Stephen Paulus, Moira Smiley and Thomas Lloyd. Click here to view the repertoire for the Evensong service. Click here to watch the Mirabai Women's Professional Ensemble perform Moira Smiley's Refugee with the composer.
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Diocesan AntiRacism Training: Racism and History
Saturday, March 29th 9-12 on Zoom
Register here.
The Anti-Racism Commission's anti-racism training series is facilitated by Lailah Dunbar-Keeys and designed to help participants understand the historic creation, preservation, and personal and institutional effects of a society built upon ideas of racial difference, which in turn support an unjust, racially based hierarchy.
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Know Your Rights
Linked here are are documents about what to do and not to do if approached by ICE in public, at your place of employment, and at your home.
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St. John's Episcopal Church
Usual Office Hours
Monday - Friday
9 AM - 1 PM
610-459-2994
saintjohnsconcord.com
The Rev. Jill LaRoche Wikel, Rector
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