Grace Soup Kitchen serves 1,000 hot nutritious meals the last five days of each month to the hungry of Plainfield.  St. John on the Mountain parishioners help on the last Friday of each month.  Join us one Friday as we prepare and serve lunch.  The next day scheduled for St. John on the Mountain to serve is on Friday, May 2nd from  10 am - 1 pm.  Please note this is date is correct, even though it's not the last Friday of the Month.  Sign-up sheets are on bulletin board outside kitchen or contact Sally Hespe.

We have learned that the Bound Brook schools, with 1179 children of which 78% are eligible for free lunch, have been added to the Backpack Program.  The numbers for the Food Bank of Somerset County continue to grow.  Help fill the backpacks, to be taken home by students who depend on school meal programs during the week and do not have enough to eat on the weekends, by providing any of the following items:

• Fruit/applesauce cups
• Raisins
• Box of oatmeal packets
• Box of granola bars
• Ramen noodles
• Juice boxes
• Chef Boyardee meals
• Individual serving-size boxes of cereal
• Easy Mac & Cheese 
• Single serving milk boxes (non-perishable only)
• Gallon ziplock slider bags 
• pudding snack packs (non-perishable only)

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Please join us as we come together to celebrate and support the St. John's Scholarship Fund in its first year at St. John's Nursery School on Saturday, May 17th at 6:30 pm in the Parish Hall.  Hors d'oeuvres, entrees, and desserts will be served.  Food selections will feature the cuisines of Italy, France, and California with wine pairings by Chris Cree of 56 Degree Wine.  There will be a silent auction and a raffle.  Click here for invitation.  

VBS Summer Camp June 23rd - 27th   

Children ages 3 through rising 4th graders are welcome to join us from 9:30 am - 12:00 noon.  Kids will learn, create, and have fun.  Join us for sports, games, music, snacks, Bible stories, and cool crafts!  The cost is $60 per child (with a $150 cap per family).  Click here for registration forms.  Space is limited.  For more information contact Lynn Mitchell.