Every Sunday, during our regular services, you are welcome to receive an anointing or healing prayer, which is offered at the side altar during communion.  As always requests are kept confidential.

All are welcome to the Annual Parish Picnic on Sunday, September 17th from 12:00-3:00 pm at the Senior Beach House at Centerport Beach, 239 Little Neck Road, Centerport. This will be a wonderful chance for all of us to meet our newcomers. The Youth Group will organize fun activities for the children and families.

Please bring your food donations as follows:

·   Last names beginning A thru M - salad

·   Last names beginning N thru Z - dessert

There will be a sign up sheet available at the back of the church and in the Great Hall during coffee hour.

Hot dogs, hamburgers and soft drinks will be provided by the Breakfast Group and the ECW. Don’t forget to bring a beach chair and umbrella!

PERSONAL CARE ITEMS NEEDED by Thursday, September 21st!

We are working with the Sisters of St. Joseph to collect personal care items and toiletries such as soap or body wash, shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, razors, shaving cream, tooth brushes, toothpaste, floss, hair brushes, combs, feminine hygeine products, etc. for our brothers and sisters in need.

There is a box at the back of the church for Sunday drop-offs, or you may bring your donation to the Parish Office, Monday - Friday, 9am - 2pm.

If you would like to make a monetary donation, please make your check payable to "St. John's Church" with "Brentwood" written in the memo. We will then purchase the items that are needed.

If you have questions, please reach out to Fr. Duncan or Deacon Claire.

The children from VBS/Compassion Camp will present the musical "Something's Fishy" here at St. John's Church in Huntington on Sunday, September 24th at the 10am service.

The Ecclesiastes study will begin October 16th. We will be using Jacques Ellul's Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes as a background guide. Purchase is not required but recommended and supplements from it will be provided. Participants are asked to have read over Ecclesiastes beforehand and personal notes and meditations on it are highly encouraged. We will have a few copies of the book for purchase in the Parish Office for $25.

Beginning October 16th & 17th, Bible Study will meet regularly on Mondays at 6:30 pm on Zoom and Tuesdays at 11:00 am in person in the Guild Room. The material covered each Monday evening will be covered on the following Tuesday morning.

Please reach out to Zach with any questions, (631) 427-1752, ext. 104.

Sunday School meets in Canterbury Corner at 9:40 am. The children will then separate by age group into their respective classrooms until it is time to join the congregation at the Peace.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CALENDAR

Blessing of the Backpacks will take place on Sunday, September 17th at the 10 am service during the Peace when the Sunday School children rejoin the congregation.

First Holy Communion will take place in April. Classes begin in January. Anyone with a 2nd grader or above interested in First Holy Communion for their child should enroll in Sunday School in the fall.  

Confirmation will take place in the late spring. Any youth, 7th through 12th grade, interested in Confirmation should enroll in Christian Education and begin attending Youth Group meetings in the fall.

Youth Group for 7th to 12th graders. In addition to our annually scheduled events, we will meet regularly with our youth neighbors at St. John’s in Cold Spring Harbor and Trinity in Northport. There will be service opportunities throughout the year.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 20th at 6:30 pm at St. John's Huntington.

YOUTH GROUP CALENDAR

Parish Picnic - Our kick-off volunteer event for Youth Group will be at our Church BBQ at Centerport Beach on Sunday, September 17th at 12:00pm. We will be helping cook and run games! All are welcome!

If you have any questions about Youth Group, please contact our Curate, Rev. Zach Baker at zbaker@stjohnshuntington.org.

"Sing to him, sing praises to him,

    and speak of all his marvelous works."

(Psalm 105:2)

Lift your voice and sing with St. John's Choir! We are looking for singers of all vocal types and levels who want to enhance our worship experience through music. We meet on Sundays in the choir room at 9:15 am to robe and warm up for the 10 am service. Rehearsals are usually on Sunday afternoons and two Thursday evening each month. There are also opportunities to sing at our Healing and Evensong services.

If you are interested please reach out to our Music Director, Alex Pryrodny, or feel free to join us on Sunday morning at 9:15 am in the choir room.

HOPE Ministry at St. John’s Huntington

Hearts Offering Passionate Encouragement

Outreach for Our Community Friends in Need

Please join me (Deacon Claire) in collecting personal care and toiletry items for Family Service League, as well as for our Eastern Farmworkers Association. Both organizations provide direct services to our local friends who may find themselves struggling from time to time.

Eastern Farm Workers Association is a membership association of Suffolk Count’s farm workers, service workers and other low wage workers, as well as unemployed and disabled workers and their families. They are 100% volunteer run and operate with no government funding. EFWA’s goal is to unite their membership with local businesses, professionals, students and other concerned residents and organizations to pursue permanent solutions to the problems of poverty in Suffolk County.

Members include Suffolk County farm workers and low wage service workers. They benefit from membership through donations from local faith based communities, businesses, service organizations.

The following are some of the offerings to over 40,000 workers:

·       Clothing

·       Emergency food and personal care items

·       Preventive medical care for members

·       Legal advice

·       Job referral, etc.

There will be a box in the back of the church and items will be distributed periodically to both organizations!

Please join us for a safe and loving offering of prayer and healing on Thursday, October 12th at 7:00 pm.

We believe that not only does Jesus still heal today, but that healing is one of the most powerful ministries of evangelization. Jesus never preached the Gospel of the kingdom of God without demonstrating the kingdom through signs, wonders, and miracles, with healing as the most frequent demonstration of God’s love.

Healing services at St. John’s will include a time of worship and praise, proclamation of the Gospel and preaching, corporate prayer for healing ending with individual prayer teams for healing. Come prepared for breakthrough!

On Wednesdays, the church is open from noon to 1 pm for noonday prayer which starts at 12:15 pm. All are welcome.

St. John's Parish History & Racial Reconciliation and Social Justice Ministry members recommend this tour of Lloyd Manor for anyone interested in Huntington history and the history of slavery in our area.

Lloyd Manor is the estate of former parishioner, Henry Lloyd, who was one of the major benefactors of St. John's in its very early years and also one of the area's largest slave owners, 8 when he took over the estate and 15 by the time of the first Federal Census in 1790, some 35 years later.

Joseph Lloyd Manor located at 1 Lloyd Lane, Lloyd Harbor, NY is open Saturdays and Sundays. Guided tours are available at 11:00 am and 12:30 pm, and self-guided tours from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.

We pray for: Amy, Kate, Cheryl, Caitlin, Patti, Gladys, Anthony, Christian, Richard, Jim, Irene, Sean, Richard, Barbara, Christine, Amy, Kim, Suzanne, Cole, Luke, Leslie, Edith

We join The Episcopal Church in prayer for the health of our Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.

Altar Flowers are given this week in thanksgiving for the homecoming of our Rector, Rev. Duncan Burns.

Altar Flowers are given this week in thanksgiving for the Ordination of Rev. Zachary D. Baker into the Sacred Order of Priests.

Please send your prayers or updates to prayers@stjohns1745.org, call Coral in the Parish Office, 631-427-1752, option 1, or click on the link below and complete the online form:

PRAYER LIST FORM

Thank you for volunteering to serve.