Youth Ministry
Children are very welcome at St. John. Every week during our 9am worship service, Pastor Ellen invites children to come to the front of the church for a Children’s Sermon.
After the service, St. John has Sunday School for school aged children. Our teachers make biblical lessons come to life with interactive crafts and activities. During Sunday School, caregivers are welcome to enjoy food and fellowship in the Social Hall at Coffee Hour.
Social Ministry
St. John is “The Church That Cares”, and lives this mission through many opportunities to help our community.
Every Thursday at 10am, St. John hosts a free Community Meal. Members arrive early to cook a warm meal for neighbors in need.
Folks who attend the meal are also able to obtain non-perishable food items to take home through our Pantry program and get clothes from our Clothing Closet.
Throughout the year, St. John also has many seasonal opportunities to help our community - packing Christmas dinner boxes, making bags with essential items for Seafarers, hosting a Trunk or Treat for neighborhood children, etc. St. John is always lending a helping hand!
Music Ministry
We love music here at St. John. Our choir practices every Wednesday at 4pm at the church and our handbell choir practices after our 9am service on Sundays. We are always looking for new faces to join these groups!
Green Ministry
St John has been leading the way in our Brooklyn community by being good stewards of the earth and working to protect its resources.
We started with a collaboration with Blue Water Baltimore in 2017 to install rain barrels, cisterns and a rain garden. All these helped to control our storm water runoff by allowing it to slowly return to the earth instead of immediately going down the storm drain.
We installed a solar array at the church in 2020, during the middle of the pandemic, which was activated on Thanksgiving day. This array of 54 panels produces roughly 27,000 kwh per year and has greatly reduced our electricity demand at the church. Coupled with other energy saving initiatives we have reduced our electricity usage by over 50% and reduced our natural gas usage by over 30%.
We have plans for future energy usage improvements; however, we are proud of the work that we have accomplished so far and we look forward to what is to come!
