Are you and your family interested in serving God and your neighbor in Nicaragua this summer?  St. John's Youth (6th to 12th grades) are going on a week long mission trip to El Ayudante in Nicaragua July 11 through 18.  Join other youth and families while we work on construction, clean water, VBS, and other projects for the poor and orphaned communities in Nicaragua. We will also enjoy a day of sightseeing and fun! The deadline to register is April 30. Contact Chaplain HQ with questions or to let her know you are going on the trip.

The next Men's Ministry event will be entitled Writing about (Your) Inspiring Lives. St. John's parishioner Phil Leigh will share lessons learned as a biography ghostwriter and explain how you can write your own. As Tennessee Williams put it, "Life is all memories except for the one present moment that goes by so quickly you hardly catch it going." 

After finishing an investment career, Phil's first Civil War book was distributed by the University of Chicago Press in 2013 and followed by two more in 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Phil has written twenty-three Civil War articles for the New York Times. In 2013 he began ghostwriting the biographies of living Floridians in order to learn more about the challenges and accomplishments of others.
  

Please join us in the Parish Hall at 6:00 p.m. for wine and fellowship time, a fine meal catered by Holy Hog Barbecue at 6:30 p.m., and our speaker following dinner. RSVP to Dallas Coffield at dcoffield@gmail.com.

St. John's 15th Annual Mother's Day In-Gathering for the Mothers and Babies of Alpha House

Alpha House is an accredited, not-for-profit, local organization that was founded in 1981. Its mission is "to offer homeless pregnant women and mothers with young children safe housing and the tools they need to become self-sufficient, effective and responsible parents".  
 

Please contact Ruth Giordano with any questions and thank you! 

Each month, we make sandwiches and bag lunches for the needy patrons of Faith Café to take with them after they eat a hot meal at the Café. We are in need of monthly hosts for July 19, August 16, and December 20. Hosting means purchasing supplies (costs are reimbursed by St. John's), helping facilitate the assembly line, and delivering sandwiches to Faith Café. There is a family that would like to co-host on one of these dates, but is unable to deliver the sandwiches to the Café on Monday. If you are interesting in being their co-host, or in hosting yourselves on one of these dates, please contact Amanda Sansone at amanda.arnold.sansone@gmail.com.