Teaching and Fellowship

Nurturing one another in our lives as Christians has many components - including Teaching and Fellowship. Worshipping and Serving are also important aspects of our faith journey together.

Teaching includes Christian education for children, youth, and adults.

Adult education usually takes place from 11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. every Sunday from September through May; there are also mid-week Adult Education opportunities on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. throughout the year. See 2008 Adult Education for the current Adult education schedule.

Children & Adults are Invited to **NEW**

Children’s Christian Formation Opportunities

A Children’s Service is held at the 5:00 p.m. Eucharist in the Main Church on the first Sunday of each month. It will expand to the FIRST & THIRD Sundays at 5 p.m. starting in April. (Last year this service was part of the 10:00 a.m. Eucharist.) Each First Sunday Children’s Service will be preceded by a kid-friendly service project and followed by a potluck in The Parish Hall (starting by 5:45 p.m. and ending by 7:00 p.m.) After dinner, the kids are ready for bed!

Ideally, fellowship happens in all of our gatherings, including St. John's famous church Barbeques, the Gen X Spirituality Discussion Group, the Lenten Dinner and Bible Study Program, and picnics in Tower Grove Park. Fellowship requires building relationships - with each other and with all whom we meet, especially our neighbors in Tower Grove Heights.

Jesus also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." (Gospel of Mark, 4: 30-32)

Will you continue in the apostle's teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in the prayers? We will, with God's help! (Baptismal Covenant)

Church is fun!