{"id":104,"date":"2020-06-18T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2024-02-11T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T06:07:59","slug":"community-ministries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/community-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter-425x425.jpg 425w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/altar-cross-easter.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our ministries at St. John&#8217;s are ways we live out our purpose statement to <em>Worship God, Care for People, and Grow as Christians. <\/em>During the pandemic, many of our ministries have been modified, but we continue doing the work God has given us to do during this time.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to <em>Worship God<\/em> with in-person and on-line <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/worship-2\/\">worship<\/a> options.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/carson-with-st-johns-sign-fall-scavenger-hunt-2020-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"fall scavenger hunt st john's sign\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/carson-with-st-johns-sign-fall-scavenger-hunt-2020-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/carson-with-st-johns-sign-fall-scavenger-hunt-2020-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/carson-with-st-johns-sign-fall-scavenger-hunt-2020-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/carson-with-st-johns-sign-fall-scavenger-hunt-2020.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We <em>Care for People<\/em> through a variety of ministries that reach out to the community to meet people&#8217;s basic needs and build loving relationships. Please take a look at the pages for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/community-kitchen\/\">Community Kitchen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/episcopal-church-women\/\">Episcopal Church Women<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/food-pantry\/\">Episcopal Community Services<\/a> (our food pantry)\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/west-hill\/\">West Hill Ministries<\/a>.\u00a0 We welcome all to join us in our community work.\u00a0 One need not be a member of St. John&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Our current education ministries that help us <em>Grow as Christians<\/em> include our Love First program for elementary-aged children that meets Sunday afternoons and thematic adult education courses meeting at 9:00am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our ministries at St. John&#8217;s are ways we live out our purpose statement to Worship God, Care for People, and Grow as Christians. During the pandemic, many of our ministries have been modified, but we continue doing the work God has given us to do during this time. We continue to Worship God with in-person and on-line worship options. We Care for People through a variety of ministries that reach out to the community to meet people&#8217;s basic needs and build loving relationships. Please take a look at the pages for our\u00a0Community Kitchen,\u00a0Episcopal Church Women,\u00a0Episcopal Community Services (our food pantry)\u00a0and\u00a0West Hill Ministries.\u00a0 We welcome all<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/community-ministries\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnssharon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}