One of St. John’s favorite annual events, Oktoberfest, is coming on Sunday, October 21st at 5:45 pm in the Parish Hall. The menu is traditional Oktoberfest dinner including bratwurst, German potato salad, and apple cake for dessert. St. John’s Trivia will be played, with prizes awarded to the winning team members. Kids events will include […]

Please join us this Sunday as we hear from Daryl Davis, an award-winning local blues musician by profession who embraces adversaries as a hobby. Daryl finds that “when two enemies are talking, they are not fighting. It’s when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. If you spend five minutes with your […]

By Lisa Raisner In describing beloved community in his first book Stride toward Freedom in 1958, Martin Luther King said “something must happen so to touch the hearts and souls of men that they will come together, not because the law says it, but because it is natural and right.” In his last book in […]

I am delighted to announce to you our next Associate Rector, The Rev. Hershey Mallette Stephens. Hershey will oversee our Children, Youth, and Family Ministries, which includes directing our Church School. Hershey is a native North Carolinian. Baptized and raised at St. Ambrose Church in Raleigh, she is a third-generation Episcopalian. Hershey was educated at […]

On Sunday, June 3, we will welcome our new Director of Music Ministries, Karl Robson, and say farewell to John Hurd, our faithful Interim Director of Music Ministries. John and Karl have some special music prepared for us for that day at the 9 and 11:15 am services, and we’re in for a real treat! […]

St. John’s is pleased to invite you to attend an organ concert by Nathan Laube on Saturday, April 14 at 7:30 pm. The concert, which is open to the public, is in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the installation and dedication of St. John’s 3,529 pipe instrument, built by Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders of […]

From February 20 to March 20 (five consecutive Tuesdays), Sari will lead a Lenten Bible Study of the Gospel of Luke in the Lounge from 6-7 pm. Immediately after each week’s discussion, Toni Hartman will guide a half-an-hour session of centering prayer. If you would like to receive reminders and Bible study material, please email […]

Sign up today for St. John’s Women’s Retreat 2018: Finding Strength with God. Join with women of all ages and interests for a relaxing weekend away with worship, conversation, music, fun, and creative activity in a beautiful setting. The retreat begins on the afternoon of Friday, March 9, with dinner followed by a Taizé service. […]

St. John’s Holy Land Committee in conjunction with Voices From the Holy Land (VFHL) is bringing a documentary film series to our church over the next two months. Beginning on March 4, St John’s will host a screening and moderated discussion of four films on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 pm. The VHFL film series, whose […]