Faith Formation & Fellowship

GROWING IN CHRIST

At St. John’s, we wholeheartedly believe that Christian formation does not stop at the church doors.

We incorporate formation into our entire parish life and consider our Parish Life ministry to be a major component of our formation program and an extension of our liturgy.

Hear Their Voices

An annual three-month long initiative that brings the voices of lesser-known spiritual figures into the Sunday liturgy and pairs them with themed activities and food in the coffee hour.

Face2Face Heart 2Heart

An effort that, through teaching, preaching, and workshops, systematically teaches people proven skills to foster love in their own life and the lives of others.

St. John’s, Georgetown Unleashed

A structured, parish-wide activity in which teams explore ways to take a small amount of money ($10), grow it if necessary (through bake sales, hosting benefits or garage sales, etc.), and use the results to create a large community impact. Teams created projects that included bridging the school break gap for families who are dependent on school lunches to feed their children, aiding in the clean-up and maintenance of a local African American cemetery, building and stocking a community mini-library, setting up a program in which team members regularly visit seniors in facilities, and much more.

Ministry Madness

A yearly, exuberant celebration of ministry that showcases St. John’s, Georgetown variety of ministries to the parish through ministry involvement in the liturgy on Sundays and corresponding events during coffee hour.

Past “madness” has included coffee hour trivia contests, game shows and games of skills, and other hands-on demonstrations and experiences designed by the individual ministries for the entire parish.

The Advent Prayer Series

An initiative involving preaching and teaching about prayer throughout the Advent season, which is then extended into coffee hour activities and the physical space of the church and the parish hall.

This has included a workshop on writing prayers by a noted author, a hands-on workshop in making origami cranes with prayers written on them (which then decorated the parish hall’s Christmas tree), prayer-filled fortune cookies, a “prayer swap,” in which parishioners drew names to identify individuals to pray for daily throughout the season, and the installation a “prayer box” at the entrance to the church.