St. John's

March 27, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 27, 2020

Daily Reflection

What will you discover? What will you bring back to St. Johns when we all return?

St. John's

March 26, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 26, 2020

Daily Reflection

Where do you see signs of life around you? How have you experienced new life stirring within you?

St. John's

March 25, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 25, 2020

Daily Reflection

Take a moment to reflect on the icon or picture; what feelings, emotions, and/or connections are sparked? I wonder for each of us, in this moment, what God might be inviting us to say yes to, that we might birth the knowledge of God’s Love into our troubled world, which so needs that gift.

St. John's

March 24, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 24, 2020

Daily Reflection

Over the last couple weeks I’ve discovered new depths of comfort and meaning in the Psalms, and their words have given me comfort. They’ve become like a mountain spring, a source of water of life-giving water when I feel spiritually dry.

St. John's

March 23, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 23, 2020

Daily Reflection

It is hard to imagine life returning to exactly the way it was a year ago, a month ago or even a week ago. And of course, we can never truly relive the past any more than we can predict the future. But there is a sense in this tumultuous time that life will be different going forward.

St. John's

March 21, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 21, 2020

Daily Reflection

God doesn’t need us to be perfect, or to pretend like we are. All of the readings for today revolve around that theme.

St. John's

March 20, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 20, 2020

Daily Reflection

Where have you received love from an unexpected place? How has the love you have shared or received impacted your relationship with God or other people?

St. John's

March 19, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 19, 2020

Daily Reflection

The temptation to look backward is strong right now. I find myself looking back even just a couple weeks, to a point before self-isolation, social distancing, quarantining, and all the other ways of being that are suddenly present in our lives.

St. John's

March 18, 2020

Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's

March 18, 2020

Daily Reflection

These are momentous times, there is grief and sorrow and fear, but there is also kindness and compassion and love abounding.

St. John's

March 17, 2020

The Rector's Ruminations

Rector's Message on COVID-19 from Sabbatical

St. John's

March 17, 2020

The Rector's Ruminations

In these uncertain and strange times, I wanted to simply let you all know what is going on with the Stevens family. Firstly, we are all doing well. Secondly, we are in the United States and never did make our planned trip to New Zealand. Currently, we are in FL with my parents simply praying for all and being grateful for the time together.

St. John's

March 13, 2020

Assoc Rector Reflections, Nathan's Notes

Associate Rectors on COVID-19

St. John's

March 13, 2020

Assoc Rector Reflections, Nathan's Notes

In the days since we sent our last update about how we as a community are responding to the Coronavirus, we have been tracking new information, speaking with other communities of faith, listening to you, and talking with our Bishop.

St. John's

March 13, 2020

Episcopal NH

Pastoral Directive: A Bishop’s Call to a Lenten Fast from Public Worship

St. John's

March 13, 2020

Episcopal NH

Pastoral Directive: A Bishop’s Call to a Lenten Fast from Public Worship

Today, after consulting with clergy, lay leaders, public health officials and fellow bishops, I ask that each of our congregations set aside this coming Sunday as a Day of Preparation for a Fast from physically gathered, large group worship until April 5, the Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday.

St. John's

February 1, 2020

Notes from Nathan

The Stories We Tell

St. John's

February 1, 2020

Notes from Nathan

How do you tell the story of St. John’s? What is it that the community means to you? What is it all about? If someone asked you the history of the church, what would you tell them?

St. John's

February 1, 2020

A poem for the New Year

St. John's

February 1, 2020

My wish for you is that you continue
Continue
To be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness

St. John's

January 16, 2020

Community Comments

Boiler Replacement Warms More than the Church Building

St. John's

January 16, 2020

Community Comments

Boiler Replacement Warms More than the Church Building

Reginald Baird shares his appreciation for the warm Christmas at St. John’s.

St. John's

December 1, 2019

Salaam, Shalom, Peace— To be a pilgrim...

St. John's

December 1, 2019

Salaam, Shalom, Peace— To be a pilgrim...

I have just returned from an amazing, overwhelming, at times disturbing, pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I journeyed with a group from Christ Church East Greenwich in South East London, where my friend the Rev. Margaret Cave is the Rector of the Parish of East Greenwich and vicar of Christ Church.

St. John's

December 1, 2019

The Rector's Ruminations

Rob’s Sabbatical

St. John's

December 1, 2019

The Rector's Ruminations

Rest…the most wonderfully elusive gift. As rector of a parish with 600 active members and an average Sunday attendance of 325, rest is something that must be planned for and practiced.

St. John's

November 1, 2019

Notes from Nathan

Seek the Welfare of the City

St. John's

November 1, 2019

Notes from Nathan

Jeremiah 29: 4-5,7 These verses from Jeremiah have stuck with me since we read them in church on October 13th, the Sunday before Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I’ve been thinking about what it means to be part of a larger community and how we understand our presence, here, now, in this city, on this land.

St. John's

November 1, 2019

Assoc Rector Reflections

“‘Everyone’s a little broken and everyone belongs" Crowded Table

St. John's

November 1, 2019

Assoc Rector Reflections

“‘Everyone’s a little broken and everyone belongs" Crowded Table

Crowded Table is the name of a song we learned at the parish retreat where our theme was The Great Commandment – to love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

St. John's

November 1, 2019

The Rector's Ruminations

Parish Retreat 2019

St. John's

November 1, 2019

The Rector's Ruminations

This year, once again, we went on a retreat as a parish the last weekend of September at Camp Merrowvista in Tuftonboro, NH. This was our second year doing this, so now it is a TRADITION!