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Church of St. John in the Wilderness
The Episcopal Church in Copake Falls, NY
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PO Box 180
261 Route 344
Copake Falls, NY 12517
518-329-3674
How to reach us:

Service Times


Sunday:
Spoken Eucharist,  8 am

Choral Eucharist, 10 am




Study Groups

Wednesday:
3 pm Divine Reading/Contemplative Prayer



Church is open daily for prayer and meditation

Clergy:

The Rev John P Thompson, Rector 


Liturgical Calendar
Good News, Everyone!

Saturday, 25 May
at 10 am is the first Bake Sale of the season at Gary and Cathy Reinard's KOA campground on Rt 7 in Copake. Please bring baked goods for the campers. Holiday tradition raises money and attracts campers to the church.

Winds in the Wilderness concert Sunday, 26 May at 4 pm.
   Featured musicians are Sharon Powers, flute, Judith Dansker, oboe, and John Myers, guitar and pipa, playing music by Faure, Teleman, Ibert, C.P.E. Bach, Jobim, Abreu and traditional chinese music.  Tickets are $15 donation, children free.  Reception follows concert.  See poster for details.

Come to the concert, "Bands for Backpacks",  a day of music  to benefit our neighbors in need. Music starts at 2 pm, Saturday, 1 June. Four bands will perform and there will be food and fun for kids. Details in Fr John's invitation.

We made a list of the many Good Causes supported by St John in the Wilderness. Can you add to this list?

Fr John
has a challenging essay on living with mystery in the Voice In the Wilderness for March. Lucy profiles Wendy Langlois, our Church School director. And we remember Bea Wolcott, who died 22 February. "And Light Perpetual..."

Annual Meeting of the Church of St John in the Wilderness took place on Sunday, 20 January. We selected new vestry members and delegates.

Our diocesan bishop, William Love, was our celebrant 23 September. Under his hands, Amy Bahr was baptized, Jeanie Van Hoesen was confirmed, and Martha Glantz, Janet Doherty, and Mary Ellen Baker were received into the Episcopal Church. See photos of the service and the reception.

Divine Reading/ Contemplative Prayer Group: Put Wednesdays at 3 pm on your calendar and gather with us in the rectory for the Divine Reading/Centering Prayer Group.  This meditative approach to scripture will bring peace to your soul.

If you would like to receive occasional emails from Fr John on church activities, request a subscription at info@stjohnw.org.

Have you checked the St John's  Photobook? Several new faces have been added. Welcome all!

Our Ministries:
Site Resources: Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Romans 5:1-5
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