St. John's Church

A Welcoming Episcopal Community in Larchmont, NY

In the Community

Community Outreach

Inspired by a phrase used by Reverend Lisa in 2025, Welcome and Reach, many St. John’s members find that community outreach is an important and valuable component of their lives here.  There are opportunities to engage in meaningful activities that offer aid those outside of our walls who may need something we are able to give.

We have a number of volunteer opportunities to work together to support local ministries.

Read about a few of our ongoing hands-on opportunities to work together to support both local and international ministries:

  • Midnight Run: providing clothing, food, and fellowship for people who are unhoused in New York City, two or three times a year
  • Hope Meals: prepping casseroles to be served once a month at Hope Community Services in New Rochelle
  • St. John’s Youth Empowerment Council (SJYEC): High school and college-age students raise money and distribute grants based on an annual theme.
  • Confirmation, Voyagers, and Navigators service projects: Our Youth Groups participate in service activities as part of their meetings. Recent activities have included sorting toiletries for Midnight Run, painting pots and writing notes for Larchmont Friends of the Family, bottling spice for distribution at the food pantry, making paintings for our homebound parishioners, creating birthday bags for Feeding Westchester and decorating stockings for Lifting Up Westchester.

Additional volunteers from St. John’s serve the community outside of our walls.  We have parishioners volunteering with Neighbors for Refugees, Larchmont Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force, Community Resource Center and the Cancer Support Team to name just a few. Click on the links if you wish to be involved.

St. John’s also supports financially, through our annual budget managed by the Community Outreach Committee, and through the efforts of our Episcopal Church Women (ECW) who raise money through our exceptionally popular Christmas Bazaar and White Elephant Sale. The Community Outreach annual budget is approved by the Vestry and distributes money throughout the year to primarily local organizations. A recent addition to the budget is a donation to Interfaith Prison Partnership to provide visit bags for children visiting their incarcerated mothers.

For more than 20 years, St. John’s has supported an Easter Appeal, raising money for a local philanthropic organization.

The Community Outreach Committee also collects funds to support the purchase of Thanksgiving turkeys and chickens for the Larchmont Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force food pantry.

Our facilities, including the Parish Hall, Undercroft and Chapter Room, are used by community groups including AA, Yoga, Larchmont Mamaroneck Center for Continuing Education, At Home of the Sound, Local Summit, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and others. That’s an important part of our living out our theme of Welcome and Reach!

Every year the Community Outreach Committee submits a budget for Vestry approval that supports local organizations. A small portion of the money is always reserved for unanticipated needs that arise during the calendar year. The following organizations were supported in 2025: