Clockwise from top left: Rick Prairie, Meg Harman, George Koehnke, Barbara Hadden, Sylvia Mersfelder, Bob Bob Laufman, Bill Luerssen, Nancy Colegrove
Nov. 24, St. John’s honored members who have been congregants 50 or more years.
What special gifts they are to us, … read more.
Help with family activities for First Hour next 6 weeks: Nov 24 through Dec 29
To volunteer:
To sign up for just one or all six weeks, go to the Sign-Up Genius here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D4DA8AB29A7FC1-holiday
Details:
For the 6 week holiday season, children and families we will be meeting … read more.
Welcome to week 2 of our new way to share information about church programming. Feedback is welcome to programming@stjohnsuu.org.
NEW THEME: A Christmas Carol
The holidays are upon us! We are making our transition to our holiday theme of A Christmas Carol. Services will address this … read more.
St. John’s is hosting a Guest at St. John’s Table dinner Dec. 8 for the sanctuary and immigration communities. Please see more here, https://stjohnsuu.org/events/guest-at-st-johns-table/ , and offer some food and/or time.
You are also welcome to partake and enjoy meeting others!
It’s time to prepare for the next issue of the Seasonal Journal! The December edition will reflect our upcoming theme: A Christmas Carol. Suggested topics include Choices, Compassion, Family, Forgiveness, Generosity, Guilt, Isolation, Kindness, Time, and Transformation.
We invite your submissions of articles, poems, and pictures. … read more.
Welcome to our new method of communicating all the news fit to print type! We are trying to make the E-News and Order of Service leaner and easier to navigate by posting more information directly on the website. Please bear with us as we work … read more.
Rev. Mitra and a small group of congregants met Sunday, Nov. 3, to dedicate a maple tree planted as our participation in marking the 450th anniversary of the Edict of Torda.
Using the Cincinnati Parks Foundation’s commemorative tree program, St. John’s had collected money … read more.
We are going to
offer expanded programming before the service starting this fall. It will be
called First Hour. We will offer
faith formation options across the lifespan, for all ages and interests. For
now, we’re calling this “religious development” time. This is a time for
learning together, growth, and … read more.
This year the staff team has worked
to schedule out a full year of themes. When, in the last few years, we
have tried themes by month, we have found the time to be too short to dive deep
into the richness of the topic. This year we … read more.
Weeding is the removal of materials from a library collection in a systematic way. Careful weeding is key to the health of a collection. www.libraryjournal.com
Books weeded from St. John’s library will be donated to the public library.
Given limited shelf space in the library, it’s necessary … read more.
