One Service at 10 This Sunday

Join Us This Sunday at 10:00 AM!

Come worship with us this Sunday,

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost.

Our preacher will be

The Rev. Dr. Laura Natta

The service begins at 10:00 AM

All are welcome!

Tuesday Evening Centering Prayer

Tuesdays at 5:30 pm

Join us on Tuesday evenings at 5:30 pm for a contemplative Eucharist with Centering Prayer. Services take place

in person and over Zoom.

In these times when so much of what we knew—or thought we knew—has been challenged, many of us have named loss, uncertainty, and change as the deepest realities we’re wrestling with. Melissa Sellevaag, Director of Training of the Wendt Center for Loss, Grief, and Healing will lead her 2nd session on how we name, process, and live with grief and transition. These conversations are grounded in compassion and honesty, offering space for reflection, sharing, and healing within our community of faith.

This offering grows directly out of our parish’s guiding question this year: “What can we do for you?” — a reminder that we walk this journey together, and that healing begins when we show up for one another. Please join us! Our final workshop on 11/30 will cover moving forward and will be led by Miranda Wilson and Kathryn Wood.

Thanks to all who brought in photos and mementos of loved ones for our celebration of the Feast of All Saints and El Dia de los Muertos. Please pick up your items after service this Sunday, 11/16 on the altar in the organ alcove. Blessings!

Great Patrol Thanks and Sign Up:

Thank you everyone who helped with the November Grate Patrol! We assembled over 150 meals. Cameron Sherr who rides the Grate Patrol van reported that every meal fed a hungry soul.

Thank you to Patti Thorp, Lidia Ruiz, Rodger Streitmatter, and Carol Dawson for assembling meals. We’re so grateful for sandwich-making and assembling toiletry kits from Kate, Sebastian, and Nicholas Delayan, Maryam Ayromlou, Judy Ryan, Jamie Cartwright, Jocelyn Dyer, Avery Miller, and Jess Heywood during church coffee hour. Thank you to Bob and Eileen Wallace, Elena Fletcher, Julie and Tom Cooke, Carol Dawson, and Patti Thorp for sandwiches and fresh fruit. And thank you to Mark Duer for ordering all the supplies from Costco! Thank you to anyone who helped and was not mentioned! The next Grate Patrol is Monday December 8th so making sandwiches will happen at coffee hour on Sunday December 7th.

The Clergy, Wardens, and Vestry of St. John’s wish to thank the following people for their pledge for the work of the church in 2026:

Terresa Orrison Beal

Thomas & Julie Cooke

Tammy & Sam Cox

Carol Dawson

Mark Duer & Julio Leonard

Andrew Fiske & Daniel Lyons

Rev. Gini & Joseph Gerbasi

Aaron Goen & Matt Register

Tom Grooms & Rodger Streitmatter

Brandon Hemmelgarn & Shelby Rudd

Shirley Hibbitts

Raymond Honeycutt

Jim Johnson

Alphonse & Ann La Porta

Robert Laycock & Thomas Vogt

Joan & David Maxwell

Tyler Metteer

Avery Miller & Gregory Mocek

Sarah Moore

Rev. Dr. Laura Natta & Kathryn Wood

Sally Ostad

Andrew & Chelsea Overton

Jen Page

Garrett Rasmussen

Robert Rea

Kirk Renaud & Rev. Sarah Duggin

John & Judy Ryan

Leigh & Carol Seaver

Howard Spendelow

Craig & Elizabeth Talbot

Holden & Patti Thorp

Julie van Steenwyk

John Wise

David & Barbara Wolf

Kenneth Wong & Andrea Kramer

Thus far in our Stewardship we have raised over $156,000 in pledges for 2026.

St. John’s needs to raise $265,000 in pledge income in 2026.

Your financial support is essential to building the St. John’s community.

If you wish to financially commit to supporting the work of the church in 2026 (in any amount!) please submit your pledge online at stjohnsgeorgetown.org and set up online giving to fulfill your pledge for the year ahead.

Need a boost to get into the Christmas spirit? Volunteer to join our festive Bedeck, Bauble & Beautify Band on November 29th at 10:00 a.m. We’ll dress and adorn the church inside and out with garlands and bows, trim the tree, and joyously connect to all the things that signal love coming down among us at Christmas. Contact Virginia Elgin with questions: sselginmd@verizon.net.

The entire Parish of St. John’s Georgetown is invited to a traditional ADVENT WREATH MAKING workshop directly after the service on 11/30. All greens and supplies included!

The Hyde School Angel Tree is coming on Sunday November 23 and wrapped and tagged gifts will be due by Sunday December 14. The following week, the wagons will be filled with gifts and trundled across the street to the school.

Every year St. John's partners with Hyde-Addison Elementary School across the street to make the holidays merrier for several families of school children there. We work with the social workers to identify the families. Each child receives 3 gifts, and parents receive a gift plus a Visa gift card.

The Angel Tree will be in the Parish Hall and decorated with cards containing the name of the child and their wish. There will be a card for the parents too. This season we’ll give gifts to at least 6 families. It’s so easy to spread Joy: Just take a card from the tree, fill in your contacts on the sign-up sheet, and return the wrapped gift with the card attached to the church by December 14. You can brighten the holidays for a child from Hyde-Addison. Contact Ann La Porta: a_laporta@yahoo.com with any questions.

Flower Donations

As we prepare to celebrate the season, we invite you to contribute to the beauty of our church this Christmas by making a donation toward Christmas flowers. Your gift helps us add flowers to enhance our worship and celebrate the joy of Christ's birth. A contribution of $50 or more helps fund Christmas flowers as well as those Sundays with no flower signups. To donate, please use the GIVE button on our homepage: stjohnsgeorgetown.org. Donations may be made in honor of loved ones, and their names will be included in a special listing in the Christmas Eve bulletin

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