One Service at 10 This Sunday

Join Us This Sunday at 10:00 AM!

Come worship with us this Sunday,

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

Our preacher will be

The Rev. Sarah Duggin, Associate Rector

The service begins at 10:00 AM

All are welcome!

BLESSING OF NEWCOMERS

As we celebrate the Transfiguration and Fat Sunday this week, we will bless all of those who are new to St. John's within the past year or so during the 10 am Eucharist and offer a special welcome at our Fat Sunday Coffee Hour. Please join us!

UPCOMING SERVICES

ASH WEDNESDAY, February 18, 2026, at 7pm. Come “get your ash on!” with us in a special service celebrating Justice and our part as followers of Christ Jesus in creating a more just society. Far more than a somber day, this is our chance to hold this day and the next 40 days of Lent with intention to heal, to love, and to minister to the world as Jesus did.

PARISH ANNUAL MEETING is on March 1^st and will be directly after a 10am JAZZ Service! Be hip, be cool, and be ready to get jazzed up about hearing where we’re at and where we’re headed as a Parish.

COMPLINE – Every THURSDAY during Lent at 7pm. February 26^th through March 26^th. The final service in the Book of Hours, Compline, is also known as Night Prayer. This ancient practice first came about in the 6^th Century in the Rule of St. Benedict. Come immerse yourself in this brief but poignant moment of candlelit peace, chant and reflection.

UPCOMING PARISH EVENTS

“Thank you!” to GRATE PATROL Team - Garrett, Lidia, Laura, and Carol assembled 110 meals! Thanks also to ALL of the sandwich makers! Your time and generosity really makes a difference!

WE NEED YOU!

Want to get more involved in Sunday worship? It’s easy—just sign up!

We need volunteers each week for:

●       Flower Guild

●       Lesson and prayer readers

●       Ushers

●       Acolytes

●       Altar Guild (assist clergy before services)

●       Host Minister/Greeter (make announcements, invite all to coffee hour)

Training is available, but if you’ve attended before, you’ll likely already know what to do.

Tech-savvy? Rev. Laura needs help with the Sunday broadcast. Training provided; most controls are preset. Questions? Contact Patti Thorp (verger) at 919-491-4481 or thorppatti@gmail.com, or sign up at our Sign-up Genius page: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B044EABAC28A6F94-54060798-11am#/

GET YOUR TIX NOW – OUR CABARET SELLS OUT EVERY TIME!

Heat up an evening with libations, laughs and love!

The stars will come out again on Saturday, 2/21/2026 at 7pm (doors open at 6), when our very own Kate Vetter Cain and Derek Greten-Harrison will bring us their new show,

“Alone Together with You” accompanied again by Director of Music, Aaron Goen.

Delightful sips will be paired with a tasty feast of appetizers from Georgetown Restaurants!

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SAVE THE DATE! Georgetown House Tour 2026 is April 18^th!

This year’s Patron’s Party is on 4/15 at 6:30pm. New this year: a cocktail Forum here in Blake Hall with renowned designer Barry Dixon on 4/16, 5:30–7:30pm. 

The House Tour runs 4/18, 11am–5pm. Mark your calendar and consider volunteering—we need baked goods, Docents, House Captains, and more to support North America's longest-running house tour since 1931! Questions? Contact Judy Ryan, judy.ryan2@verizon.net or Rev. Laura Natta.

Sowing Seeds of Love: A Lenten Project from St. John’s, Georgetown

Joy holds. Hope energizes. Love heals. For a while now, St. John’s, Georgetown has been exploring what it means to love. What does love in action look like? What are the skills of loving? What conditions make loving our neighbors easier? How does love spread? These aren’t abstract questions meant to distract us from hard times. They’re the kinds of questions that help us become a source of healing in a world that desperately needs it.

Over the last two years, we’ve learned a few things. Love in action shows up as justice, kindness, humility, and compassion. Joy and hope – whether in a community or a single human heart – create the conditions where love can flourish. Turning our attention to joy, we learned that joy holds: it holds space, holds people close, holds meaning, promise, and power. And we learned something about hope: it energizes, and it’s contagious, resilient, and powerful, often terrifying those whose power is built on fear.

So this Lent, rooted in joy and hope, St. John’s Georgetown will sow seeds of love – seeds we believe can help heal our hearts, our communities, and our country. Each day we’ll share stories (on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our website) of good things breaking out in the world around us. And because joy and hope are contagious and build resilience, these tangible examples of justice, kindness, and compassion can inspire more acts of love and help others hold on through difficult times.

We are inviting you to contribute to this important project. We’ll start posting on February 18 and post each day until Palm Sunday (March 29). Send in a video (2 minutes max), captioned photo, audio file, poem, a short paragraph, or whatever helps us see or hear the goodness that you have found in the world. Send your files to SowingSeeds@stjohnsgeorgetown.org. Feel free to send more than one! If you need help, email Gini (@ stjohnsgeorgetown.org).

Together we can sow seeds of love that can grow and spread, and foster genuine healing – in our own hearts, our community, and the world.