Midweek News
November 12, 2025
Dear People of Saint John's,
Thank you to Dr. Pat Jolie, Peter Brucato, and Bill Stewart for leading us in a well-attended defibrillator training this past Sunday! We are much more prepared now for a medical emergency. I am grateful that they not only provided the training but Pat and Peter also renewed our medical equipment. Many thanks for these generosities!
Our next Community breakfast will be on November 15, 2025, 9 to 11:00 am. Isabelle Andrews writes: “Join us in the gym for our much-requested community breakfast. We will be serving pancakes, scrambled eggs, hash browns, sausages, coffee, juice, and waffles! We could use baked goods, fruit salad, and volunteers. Sign-up sheets are in the narthex and outside the Thompson Room. Welcome to volunteers from St. Paul’s which is cosponsoring the breakfast. It will be a wonderful time to share a meal and fellowship with our congregation, St. Paul’s, and our neighbors. If you want to help prepare breakfast, arrive at 7:30 Saturday morning. If you have time to set up the day before, please come at 3 p.m. on Friday. We look forward to seeing you! God bless!”
Saint John’s is being honored on Sunday, November 16th at from Troy Country Club at the Athletic Haven Orange Party, which will be from 11 to 2 pm (late arrivals OK). I will be speaking alongside NBA Star Jumaine Jones. Do come and support this wonderful sports initiative housed in our gym.
The younger adults’ ministry will be having a Friendsgiving also on Sunday, November 16th at 5 pm in the Thompson Room. David and Kaitlyn Smith will be leading Lectio Divina, which is a spiritual discipline of meditation on scripture in which you slowly and prayerfully read and re-read a text in order to listen and apply God's words to your life. Please sign up here to let leaders Elissa, Calvin, David and Kaitlyn know what you are planning to bring to Friendsgiving.
We are looking forward to Advent Wreath Making and Hot Chocolate Saturday, November 22 at 9:30 am in the Gym. Sign-up sheet is on the Children's Ministry bulletin board in the hallway. Please register before Nov. 10. More details to follow.
The Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be hosted by Our Lady of Victory, 55 N. Lake Avenue here in Troy on Sunday, November 23rd at 6 pm. The spiritual instinct to be grateful is something we share with other faith traditions, and so this is a particularly apt time to gather with other faith communities. Our own Thanksgiving service will be on Thanksgiving eve, at 7 pm.
Keep you eyes peeled on the horizon! Advent is fast approaching with the Victorian Stroll, our candlelight meditations, a special devotional, and festive Christmas Eve preparations.
With gratitude for our life together,
Mtr. Judith
