Outreach
First Fruits
They currently need peanut butter, cereal, vegetables, macaroni and cheese, pork 'n' beans, Vienna sausages, spaghetti sauce, toilet paper, cream of chicken soup, canned diced tomatoes, spaghetti, canned chicken, canned tuna, canned fruit, and rice.
Next First Fruits Collection
Saturday, December 7 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Are you keeping up with Yyour Reverse Advent Calendar?
If you haven't already, stop by the Parish Hall Sunday to pick up a Reverse Advent Calendar Box. After you've wrapped your box in festive paper, add one nonperishable food item to it each day during Advent--through December 24.
We will collect the filled boxes at Christmas for donation to the Christ Ascension Food Pantry.
A Prayer for Adding to Your Reverse Advent Box
Loving God, accept this gift from all that you have given us. Nourish your children and protect them, and make us ever mindful of the needs of our brothers and sisters and siblings. Amen.
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Responds to Israel-Hamas War
The Collect for Peace
Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: so mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples, especially those of Israel and Palestine, may be gathered under the banner of peace as children of one God; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
--adapted from The Book of Common Prayer, p. 815
Episcopal Relief & Development is partnering with the Al Ahli Hospital, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, to provide emergency support in Gaza following the outbreak of war in the region. Please pray for peace in the Holy Land as they experience violence and consider making a contribution to the Episcopal Relief & Development Middle East Fund. Support of this fund will help to provide medicine and other supplies and help our partners tend to the physical and psychosocial wounds of all people affected by this conflict.
Read Episcopal Relief and Development's full statement here.
Other Outreach Opportunities
Parishioners of St. John’s also support Peter Paul RVA through volunteer services, financial contributions, and seasonal collections of supplies.