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All are welcome to participate in this year’s Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at Larchmont Temple. Come check it out!

Food Matters! Fighting Hunger, Food Waste & Climate Change
On Sunday, November 13th from 4-5:30 PM join HOW Green! (Houses of Worship Green) at St. John’s Church, 4 Fountain Square, Larchmont, to hear three local residents – Lisa Chase/Victory Farms at The Grange, Sarah Coady/Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force and Caroline Vance/ReFED – speak about Fighting Hunger, Food Waste & Climate Change in our community, co-moderated by the Rev. Lisa Mason and our MHS OCRA students.

Event is free and open to the public!

Mark your calendars! St. John’s will be one of dozens of religious institutions throughout New York State participating in the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s 12th annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend. Click here to view/download the flyer.

All are welcome to come visit our beautiful Church and Campus either day 11:00 am – 2:00 pm, when parishioners will be on hand to share its history, art, and architecture. Invite your friends and neighbors!

Outreach Opportunity: Once Monthly Prep a Meal with Hope 
We are participating in a long-standing ministry in New Rochelle. Every second Thursday of the month, volunteers from St. John’s will be providing main dishes for the weeknight meal at Hope Community Services.  We will need 10-12 volunteers each month to provide a casserole for the Thursday night meal  which will serve 80 – 150 folks from the community.  Click here to sign up.

This is a wonderful opportunity to participate in a ministry from home and then drop off the dish at our church.    Recipes will be provided, or you can cook a dish of your choice as long as the same protein is used.

Please contact Robin Ingram if you have any questions about participating. Thank you!

Updated Sunday Worship Schedule 
For the remainder of the summer, our Sunday worship services will be at 8am, 9am & 10am:

• 8:00 am Rite 1 Eucharist in the sanctuary
• 9:00 am Morning Prayer outdoors
• 10:00 am Rite 2 Eucharist in the sanctuary and livestreamed

Invite a friend and come and join us at any of our worship services!

Make a Difference for the Future.  Consider a Planned Gift to St. John’s Church, All that we are, all that we have, comes from God and will one day return to God. We are stewards of God’s bounty. Caretakers. For a brief period, we are given earthly time, energy, and resources. What we do with these gifts ultimately defines the character of our life and the depth of our spiritual understanding. “Planned giving” is one expression of the wise use of the personal resources God has entrusted to us.  Your planned gift to St. John’s can make a lasting statement about the importance to your own life of God’s presence, Jesus’ message of loving generosity and of our faith community at St. John’s.

Planned giving encompasses a variety of ways that gifts can be made to the church from accumulated resources.  While such gifts are most commonly made through a bequest in a will, there are many other ways in which they can be made depending on one’s individual circumstances and goals.  If you are curious to learn more about making a planned gift to St. John’s, click here to read more and also watch for additional communications from us about this topic.

St. John’s Blessings:  It’s been a challenging couple of years for all of us, but there is still a lot of good in our midst. Here are some of St. John’s most recent blessings:

• Through Zoom, live stream, and now in-person we have access to the Sunday 10:00AM service.
• Worship services are available online for worship on Sundays.
• Christian Formation volunteers have designed ways to continue formation for children and youth of all ages.
• Lay involvement in preparing for worship has remained constant.
• We continue to add new members.
• Our attendance numbers rose as a result of people being able to join regardless of their location.
• We were able to prepare nonperishable food bags, for the area students eligible for free and reduced breakfast and lunch.
• We participated in the mass distributions provided by the Coalition for Community and the Larchmont Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force.
• As a result of the generosity and dedication of this congregation, people of all ages have been fed and cared for during this pandemic.
• The Rev. Dorothy Greene continues to steadfastly serve the St. John’s community.
• We marked the two year anniversary of the installation of our rector, The Rev. Lisa Mason.
• We continue to affirm that all who enter this place in real life or virtually experience the life-saving embrace of God’s unconditional love.

Have good news to share? We’d love to share in your joy! Please email any good news to [email protected]. Thanks!