This ladies-only event is always the first Tuesday in December. We have 25 ladies who serve as hosts and decorate a table, invite 7 guests, and serve dessert. We offer musical entertainment, an inspirational speaker, and take a free will offering for a local charity, all to get our hearts prepared for the true meaning of Christmas. 

Led entirely by our youth, preschoolers to high schoolers all play a part, read a line, or sing. 

If you're a parent with a child in the program, practices are Saturdays, Dec. 1st and 8th from 9:30-11:30am.

Ladies Aid is hosting this fundraiser. Let's help them with their many wonderful projects - lap robes for the elderly and ill, blankets for foster children, blankets for veterans, and more. A wide variety of cupcakes will be available for a donation,  in the narthex (lobby) between services.

Join us for caroling around town to our shut-ins. Meet at church at 4 p.m.

The AMen guys are cooking up some delicious goods! Scones, pancakes, sausage, eggs, juice and coffee will be available throughout the morning, enticing you to come and help decorate for the Christmas holiday season! 

The Hostesses for Advent Aglow will be selling home-made baked goods to raise money for their outreach event. This event will offer fellowship, inspiration, and raise funds for a local chari. Pick up some yummy snacks, or a homemade pie for Thanksgiving!

Also known as the Hands & Feet 5K, this run is every Thanksgiving morning. Come and run off some calories before stuffing yourself! All proceeds go to the Living Water Mission to provide healthy water in Kenya. Early pre-registration is $25; registration is $30 the day of the race. All registrants receive a t-shirt, free beverages at the race, a bonfire, and an authentic gift from Kenya will be awarded to all finishers. Registration form can be found by clicking here.

We'll be meeting at a member's house to slice up the apples and make it into our delicious home-made applesauce for the Sauerkraut Supper. Please wear a baseball cap, hair net, or visor and bring an apple slicer or sharp knife, and a smile! Please contact JoAnne Tressler for details.

If you've ever wondered how all that sauerkraut is made for the Sauerkraut Supper, then come to the cabbage cutting! We have a home for it at a member's house. We need lots of help to cut 300-400 heads of cabbage! Our goal is to beat our record time of 1.5 hours to make all that kraut! Please contact the office for the location. Please wear a ball cap, hair net, or visor, and bring a sharp knife and cutting board or mat. 

Ladies Aid will be making bible covers, in a variety of colors (photo is not an actual sample), to fit the ESV bibles. They will be available for a minimum donation of $15 for a Study Bible and $10 for the regular or large print bibles. Members of Ladies Aid will have a table to display the material samples and take your orders before and after services these two Sundays.

Please consider donating blood, as this drive is being run as a fundraiser for our high school youth. They will receive $10 for every pint of blood collected during this drive. Every pint of blood also saves three lives! If you cannot give blood, we can use your help in setting up, tearing down, registration, serving refreshments, or just bring refreshments to be served (cookies, crackers, cheese, fruit, veggies, juice, water).

Throughout the summer, you are invited to spend the time between services (9:45-10:45) in fellowship with each other, enjoying Coffee Hour. Faith Builder classes for all ages will resume again in September. Thank you so much to all our Faith Builder teachers! You deserve this break!

Our 3 confirmands have been working, praying, and studying for this big day. Please join us to support our young people as they take this big step in their faith journey. 

Plan now to have everyone in their Sunday best and with their best smiles on! We'll be offering the opportunity for a quick family photo (hopefully outdoors, but we'll be prepared either way)  following both services. Please sign up in the narthex (lobby) while getting coffee and goodies some upcoming Sunday morning. If you'd like a full photo shoot for your family, those will be offered as well, for a fee.

Watching the darling preschoolers graduate to Kindergarten is a special treat! All are welcome. The ceremony will be held in the sanctuary of the church. While it is always sad to see them leave St. John's, we know they are well-equipped for success as they head off for schools all over Lenawee County, as God's Word has been planted in their hearts.

This fun event will help us raise funds for those going on the mission trip to Nicaragua in January of 2019. The purposes of this trip include providing an eyeglass clinic, and building relationships with local people and spreading the Gospel through Bible stories in a VBS format. This is an ongoing mission trip that we've already made for four years and will continue for several more. Teams of 5 can bowl for $25 per person, which includes 3 games plus shoe rental. Raffle tickets are $5 each and can be purchased by anyone, as you need not be present to win. Please contact the office for more information! (517) 265-6998.

Ladies and girls of all ages are invited to join us for an afternoon of fellowship and painting fun! There are several designs to choose from. Please see our Facebook event page. Please choose your design, then get paid and registered by Easter Sunday, April 1. The class is limited to 50. The cost is only $15 per person. The sign-up sheet is on the Welcome Counter and the Facebook event page.

The grill is hot at 4 pm and dinner starts when your meat has been charred to perfection! All men of the congregation and their fathers, sons, and mentors are invited to join us for this afternoon of fellowship. We will hear an inspirational message from Joshua Schumacher, head football coach at CUAA. Bring your meat of choice. Sides are provided by the AMen guys. See any member of AMen or HEbrews for more information. There will be an offering taken for the homeless youth of Lenawee County.

All women of the community are invited to help make plarn out of plastic shopping bags, or crochet the plarn into sleeping mats for the homeless. No skills required! If you can cut with scissors, you can make plarn. If you crochet, please bring a P hook. Feel free to start collecting your shopping bags, but keep them at home until this event. We have nowhere to store them here at church. Make it a family service day - on this day we'll also be packing meals for the hungry (see above)!

Ladies Aid will be selling their beautiful and delicious homemade cupcakes between services today. All proceeds benefit their ministry, which provide quilts and lap robes to the ill in our community and those in need all over the world.

This will be St. John's 11th year of participating with this very worthwhile cause. Join us again as we pack 3200 meals to be distributed to hungry people all over the world. Each meal costs just 30 cents, but that's a total of over $9,000 for that many meals. Collection jars are around the church. Consider taking up a collection at work, or school, or in a group to which you belong. We currently have 8 other organizations that will be helping us this day. Please pass the word, as we'd love to have even more! We'll also be making sleeping mats for the homeless during this time. Please see Proverbs 3:24 Project below:

Plan to join us for the imposition of ashes at either of our services that will begin the Lenten season; and every Wednesday throughout the 6 weeks of Lent.

Please give blood if you can. We'll also take your donation of crackers, cheese, veggies, fruit, juice or bottled water to refresh those who give blood. This is a fundraiser for our high school youth, who will receive $10 for every unit of blood donated during this drive.