Our children's services are a recent addition to St. John's. During these services, which are held periodically throughout the year, the children perform various roles in the service, including those of lectors, ushers, and gift-bearers.
The youth are also the focus of the day's sermon, with the celebrating priest coming down from the pulpit to address the children in a way that is both concise and contemporary, thereby describing Biblical stories and concepts so that children can understand and relate to them. St. John.s has one of the largest Church School groups of the Staten Island Episcopal Churches. Each week from September through June we provide the children with a Bible-based program for the one-room school which includes stories, crafts and activities. They meet at 9:45 and join the parish in church at the "Prayers of the People.
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