First Congregational Church, St. Johns, MI

If you have a child age preschool — 5th grade please join us at the First Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church of Saint Johns, Mon­day July 23rd — Fri­day July 27th from 9am-Noon for our VBS. We’d love to have you.

Join us July 23–27 from 9am-12pm; fea­tur­ing games, Bible sto­ries, singing, “out of this world” crafts, peanut and nut free snacks, FUN. Mis­sion this year is Liv­ing Water, a char­i­ty serv­ing 14 coun­tries to improve liv­ing con­di­tions, repair homes and pro­vide sus­tain­able clean water. Con­tact Hai­ley Elms about donat­ing time, mon­ey or food items for VBS.

This Sun­day is Awards Sun­day. Imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing church, there is an Ice Cream Social. We hope to see you there!

DON’T FORGET!!! In the sum­mer months (between Memo­r­i­al Day and Labor Day), church starts at 10:00am. This change starts this Sun­day, June 2nd.

Dis­cov­er­ing God’s Vision for Your Life

Spir­i­tu­al Gifts Class

Start­ing Sun­day Evening, May 20th at 5:00pm
(Exact Tim­ing & Dura­tion to be deter­mined by those who show up!)

Embed­ded in each Chris­t­ian is a hunger to serve Christ by serv­ing oth­ers. Those who are loved need to love. But how? What is the best way to love in the name of Christ?

Accord­ing to the Bible, each of us have been giv­en gifts by God, called “spir­i­tu­al gifts,” with which to serve God and love each oth­er. These gifts are not our skills or tal­ents; they are gifts of the Holy Spir­it for work­ing out God’s pur­pose in our lives. Togeth­er, these gifts endow the Church — the Body of Christ — with the pow­er to do mighty works in His name.

This class, facil­i­tat­ed by Bill Rock­well and Melanie Loun­ds (with help from oth­ers like Matt Olson and Rod Fuller), is designed to help you dis­cov­er and learn to use the gifts that the Lord has giv­en you. Many in our con­gre­ga­tion have found the class so help­ful that they have tak­en it sev­er­al times. Please join us for the life chang­ing, and gift affirm­ing, course. All those in mid­dle school and old­er are encour­aged to join us.

For more infor­ma­tion, call the church at 224‑2636.

“The Gifts he gave were…to equip the saints for the work of min­istry, for build­ing up the body of Christ.” -Eph­esians 4:11–12