Front sign of St Johns
Front sign of St Johns
We extend the welcome and love of God to all who come to church. Our worship is something we do together. The complete service each Sunday is printed in a program – no book shuffling or seemingly secret ways to get the hang of – and your voice is welcome and necessary. Worship is rooted in Scripture, which we take seriously but not literally, and follows the rhythm of The Book of Common Prayer, although we often use other prayer sources. Most Sundays there is Holy Communion and the table is open to any Baptized person and every seeker of Christ. Following worship, there is coffee, treats and socializing.
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The front door is accessible from the driveway, and an elevator goes to the basement, where there are restrooms. The sanctuary is air-conditioned in the summer.
Worship on Sundays at 10:00 AM
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Lent
Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. These disciplines can clear out the noise that is all around us, so that we are more able and ready to hear Jesus’ voice intimately. Listening, at its deepest level, is a spiritual practice, a sacred practice that deepens our capacity for love.
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We each may take on individual ways of practicing Lent; whether it is fasting from our favorite foods, like
chocolate, coffee, snacking, bread; fasting from words that pollute, from complaining, from idle gossip or Facebook doom scrolling. Or in taking up a new practice, a new way of being, whether it is a discipline of daily prayer or meditation, journaling, helping at the Pantry or Thrift Shop.
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The practice of Lent, of going inward and of contemplating our own mortality, is a necessary solitary experience. Whatever your personal practice, the purpose is a retuning, as if we were instruments, a reorienting of your heart and soul. Lenten practices help us return to a life abundant with God, through death to new life.
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At Church: Listening to Neighbors
During these first 5 weeks of Lent, we will listen together to other voices from our wider community. Guest speakers will come from our Powell, Cody and Park County area to speak about the people or greater purpose they serve, their mission and purpose, and ways that we at St. John’s can more deeply respond to neighbors we might not know we had.
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These voices will give us food for thought and action, to discern how we are called to lay down our lives for others, living more fully into the New Commandment, the call to love each other as Jesus loved us, and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Through these encounters with our guests who are engaged with the hands-on work of helping others, our hope is to learn ways that we may be able to help as a faith community, to hear a deeper call to action in places we might never have expected, in our ever fragile and wounded world.
Events
Pantry ProjectTuesdays 11 AM-1 PMPowell
Ceremonies
Weddings
We welcome the weddings of same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike. You may also have a civil union blessed.
Thank you for considering having your wedding at St. John’s. Before scheduling a wedding, we ask all couples to come to a Sunday service. There you can meet our clergy and other leadership and experience a typical liturgy.
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You do not need to be a member of the Episcopal Church to have a wedding here. We welcome the weddings of same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike. You may also have a civil union blessed in the church.
Baptisms
We welcome people of all ages--babies, children, teens, adults, and elders-- to receive the sacrament of Baptism.
Baptism is full initiation, by water and the Holy Spirit, into Christ's Body, the Church. We welcome people of all ages--babies, children, teens, adults, and elders-- to receive the sacrament of Baptism. The baptismal rite occurs in the middle of the service on Sunday morning, after the sermon and before Communion. Because Baptism is about joining the community, we do not do private services.
Funerals
You do not need to be a member of our church to plan this important aspect of the dying and grieving process.
Burial of the Dead is an act of mercy, and St. John’s is active in the ministry of ritual burial. You do not need be a member of our church, or any church to plan this important aspect of the dying and grieving process at St. John’s.
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The church seats about 110 people, and we have a full kitchen, tables and chairs in the basement for a reception. Our worship team will also be part of a graveside service or help scatter the ashes of the departed.