St. Fiacre Garden Party & Silent Auction, 5/1

Let's celebrate Spring together on Friday, May 1 at the annual St. Fiacre Garden Party and Silent Auction!  The evening begins at 7pm with our finest cuisine and spirits.  The Silent Auction includes several catered dinners, boating cruises, decorator items, plus so much more.  Remember, your generosity benefits the mission of St. John's.

Purchase Garden Party tickets online for $30 each here.  Please print and bring the copy of your ticket confirmation for admission.

A Virginia Arts Festival Coffee Concert on Thursday, May 7 @ 10:30am

in St. John's worship space.  Tickets are $20.

This is chamber music as it was meant to be heard: the communion of gifted artists in an intimate, beautiful setting, among music lovers and friends. At the Festival's Coffee Concerts, the performance is so close you hear every note, and witness the interactions of the artists with each other and with the music. After the performance, patrons can mingle with the performers, a lovely postscript to a perfect performance experience.  St. John's Church is pleased to be the host location for this very special concert.

It's not often a string quartet gets called "exuberant" and "funky" - but those are some of the adjectives critics from such major publications as The New York Times have used to describe the Attacca Quartet - one of the fastest-rising new stars in the chamber music firmament. First prize winner of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles. This year, the group joins Virginia Arts Festival as the quartet-in-residence. Be sure to hear this gifted ensemble in beautiful intimate settings as part of Virginia Arts Festival's Chamber Concerts.

To purchase Virginia Arts Festival tickets for this concert, follow this link.

Steeple to Steeple Tour, 5/9

Have you seen that which is in your "own backyard?"  Come see the architecture, stained glass, and memorabilia of eight houses of worship in Olde Towne Portsmouth.  Hear stories of the Yellow Fever Epidemic; the Jewish people here as early as 1916; the Underground Railroad; the Irish immigrants who built a masterpiece; and the Tories and Loyalists buried in Trinity Parish churchyard.  See great edifices unlike any other with stories of longevity and presence in a community dating back to 1762.  Bring your friends to the Jewel of Hampton Roads for a full Saturday (9am-2:30pm) of Art, Architecture, and Story.  All profits go to the HER Shelter for battered women.  To purchase $21 advance tickets, click here.

Five Impressive Achievements

Congratulations to Hannah Austin whose picture shown here won the First Place Junior Photography Trophy in Virginia's Southeastern District PTA Reflection Contest on the theme, "The world would be a better place if..."

Congratulation to Cameron Bruce for earning the impressive rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.  Cameron's extensive Eagle project involved oyster repopulation for the Elizabeth River.   

Congratulations to Brooks Gillerlain who signed her commitment letter to play volleyball for Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Women's College) in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Congratulations to Alyson Gonzalez for being inducted in the National Junior Honor Society.

Congratulations to Clare Harbin who was recognized as a "student of exceptional intelligence, character, and promise" and named as one of the first two Norfolk Collegiate Merit Scholars in the school's history, providing her a half-tuition scholarship for each of her four upcoming years of high school.

Miscellany

Stewardship of God's Resources for Holy Week & Easter Week

Ministry/Worship Attendance: Maundy Thursday (61), Good Friday (82), Holy Saturday (26); Easter Vigil (125); Easter Day 8am (20), 9am, (105), 11am (147); Wednesday of Easter Week 6:30pm (6)

Offering for Christians in Jerusalem: $395

Worship Offering:  $11,998

Income needed for ministry expenses each week: $6,977

Ministry/Worship attendance: Sunday 8am (13), 9am (40), 11am (64), Wednesday 6:30pm (10)

Worship Offering: $4,555

Income needed for ministry expenses each week: $6,977 

Third Sunday of Easter, 4/19: Acts 3:12-19 & Luke 24:36b-48