INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH

Through the Missions Committee, the congregation is involved in outreach around the world.

Dominican Republic Service Trip 2025

Informational Meeting on Sunday, February 23 at 11:30 am in Smoot Conference Room

Planning is underway for our annual service trip to be in communion and to serve with our brothers and sisters at Iglesia San Gabriel in Consuelo, Dominican Republic! This year’s trip will take place July 19– 26 and we are in the process of forming a team. All are invited to a short presentation and Q&A to help decide if this trip is right for you. Questions in advance? Please contact Stefanie Stayin or Margaret Kerfoot.

Dominican Republic Service Trip 2024

July 22–29 a 14-member team of St. John’s parishioners visited with our brothers and sisters at Iglesia Episcopal San Gabriel in Consuelo, Dominican Republic for a week of service, friendship.

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St. John's is Involved


Reaching the World’s Poorest
The St. John's family continually discerns the needs of the global poor by researching and supporting organizations that seek to meet these needs. We focus on ways to reduce poverty, hunger and disease, foster maternal and child health, broaden educational and employment opportunities, and enlist global cooperation to sustain these efforts.


Educating the parish by means of presentations, informative articles in church publications, and engagement with communities outside our own are ways we reach the world’s poorest.


Partnership in the Dominican Republic
St. John’s has been in partnership with Iglesia San Gabriel in Consuelo since 2002. At the request of the bishop of the Dominican Republic and in response to a 30% unemployment rate in that area, we funded and participated in the construction of the Bob and Ellen Snow Technical School. This is the first Episcopal school of its kind in the Diocese, and we hope that lessons learned here will benefit other Diocesan technical schools currently under construction. The school has classes in hair and nail salon operations, secretarial skills, and other skills needed for productive jobs.


St. John’s conducts annual service trips to Consuelo, to assist in construction, repair and maintenance of the trade school facility, and to participate in a Vacation Bible School for elementary school aged children. Teenagers, college students, and adult parishioners participate in a year-long orientation in preparation for the trips.


If you want to know more, or would like to participate in our 2024 service trip to Iglesia San Gabriel, please contact Stefanie Stayin.


Concern for Refugees
Among the care of selected communities, St. John’s cares for those in the world who flee from violence around the world. Download more information about refugees and migrants HERE.



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