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Outreach

The Outreach Committee provides St. John's with an organized and effective outreach channel for helping disadvantaged people to help themselves.

What do we do?
As a vital part of St. John’s mission of outreach, the Outreach Committee . . .

Supports local, national, and international organizations that help people to help themselves.

Volunteers skills and donations for local efforts to prevent homelessness, provide affordable housing, shelter the needy, and feed the hungry. We work with Habitat for Humanity, Huntington Interfaith Homeless Initiative (HIHI), Community Food Council, and other effective local organizations.

Advises the vestry on additional charitable giving that is part of St. John’s annual budget.

Raises funds to make good things happen. Recent giving has included:

  • Family Service League and Youth and Family Counseling Service: for early childhood programs in Huntington Station and Oyster Bay. Trained workers visit at-risk families weekly, helping parents develop strong supportive relations with their children.
  • Trinity Episcopal Church Counseling and Training Center, New Orleans: for counseling and care for children and families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
  • Episcopal Relief & Development, Africa: working through local Anglican parishes to help the rural poor of Malawi grow the food they need, in a practical, sustainable way.
  • St. Matthias School, Haiti: partnering with Ecole St. Matthias in Deslandes, Haiti to ensure that the next several generations of young people grow-up educated and well-fed.

How can you help?
The outreach opportunities at St. John’s are diverse and rewarding. You can offer help with a specific event or program...

  • Work with the Huntington Interfaith Homeless Initiative (HIHI), which shelters the homeless: prepare or serve meals, or chaperone in the evening.
  • Pick up a special St. John's Blue Bag and bring non-perishable food and personal care items to the St. John’s food basket on Sunday, which is then given to the Community Food Council. Click here for a helpful Blue Bag Ministry Shopping List.
  • Support our donated baked goods program by picking up baked goods at the Fiorello Bakery in Huntington contributing a good will offering for them on Sundays, or taking the remainder to the Community Food Council or to the Congregational Church.
  • Work with our annual fund-raising events: Stone Soup Luncheon, Bridge Luncheon.
  • Help at St. John’s with occasional food and clothing donation drives.
  • Mentor in local after-school programs at the Tri Community Youth Agency or at the Family Service League.
  • Take supplies to the Family Service League’s after-school program for children at the Manor Field Service Center.

To participate in any part of the committee’s work or to find out about the about the latest volunteer opportunities, contact Laura Swiggett.


Giving to St. John's Outreach Efforts
Checks may be made payable to St. John's Church with Outreach in the memo line and mailed to:

St. John's Church Outreach
PO Box 266
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

For more information, please contact the Financial Administrator at 516-692-6748.


Outreach “Blue Bag Sunday” Collections - February 5, 2023

Outreach “Blue Bag Sunday” Collections - February 5, 2023

OUTREACH “BLUE BAG” COLLECTION IS THIS SUNDAY! Thank you to the many parishioners who continue to faithfully support our monthly food collections. We have learned the need for food is currently significant and increasing. Items most needed ...
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Growing Compassion through Acts of Mercy: A Lenten Series

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Wednesdays in Lent The works of mercy are precisely the concrete sign of our confession that the Son of God has come in the flesh: visiting the sick, feeding those who do not have food, taking care of the outcast. We must p...
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CBS feature on Community Solidarity

CBS feature on Community Solidarity

Our outreach partner Community Solidarity was recently featured on CBS New York on December 22nd. The posting and video highlighted all the incredible work Community Solidarity does every night of the week. Not only that, but some of our paris...
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Community Solidarity Toy and Food Share

Community Solidarity Toy and Food Share

On Tuesday evening, several St. John’s parishioners participated in the Tuesday night food and toy share with Community Solidarity in Huntington. Despite the cold weather, the Christmas spirit was everywhere in evidence, and hundreds were fed t...
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Adopt-a-Family Drive Success!

Adopt-a-Family Drive Success!

Our deepest thanks to all those who participated this year in our Youth and Family Counselling Agency adopt-a-family drive. It was an outstanding success, and Barbara Rakusen, director of the YFCA, has already expressed her deepest thanks to all ...
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St. John’s “Adopts” 4 YFCA Families for Christmas

St. John’s “Adopts” 4 YFCA Families for Christmas

St. John’s Outreach is partnering with Youth and Family Counseling of Oyster Bay/East Norwich to make the holidays a bit brighter during this difficult year. We are “adopting” 4 local families who are struggling to make ends meet during th...
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​Community Solidarity Needs Holiday Elves!

​Community Solidarity Needs Holiday Elves!

Community Solidarity needs extra volunteers to help at their Huntington Food Share during the holidays, especially on the following nights: Tuesday, December 20th (Toy & Food Distribution) Tuesday, December 27th (Food Distribution) Tuesday,...
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Community Solidarity Toy Drive

Community Solidarity Toy Drive

New or used, Community Solidarity is collecting toys to share with thousands of families in need across Long Island. You can donate, and help share the items you bring at one of our Food Share locations. From now until Dec. 24th Community ...
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Youth Volunteering Opportunity

Youth Volunteering Opportunity

12-3 pm, Saturday, November 19 Southdown Market 205 Wall Street Youth in grades 7 - 12 are invited to volunteer at a Thanksgiving food drive for local pantries. We will have chaperones there 12-3 PM. The drive, organized by Rotary of...
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THANK YOU - WARM COATS AND ACCESSORIES DRIVE

THANK YOU - WARM COATS AND ACCESSORIES DRIVE

Thank you to all who donated to the winter coats plus drive for our outreach partner, Gerald J. Ryan Center in Wyandanch. We had a great response! 20 bags were delivered last week, including several of new men's underwear and tee shirts, a priori...
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Sermons

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    Hey, Jeff! Did you see that?
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  • Dec 25 | The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach
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1670 Route 25A, Post Office Box 266
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
(516) 692-6368

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1670 Route 25A
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

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St. John's Episcopal Church was the first religious institution to be established in Cold Spring Harbor. The first Episcopalian services were held in the little 18th century school house just above the site of the present church. The very first Vestry minutes, written in fine script on September 4, 1831, lists the founders who pledged $2,000 to build a new church.

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Seeking after God is one of the principle marks of Christian discipleship. Christians look for God, and find God, in all parts of life, but sometimes it helps to have company. That’s what the church is for. We are the fellowship of those who seek to find Jesus in their lives. We are companions in life and in the spiritual journey.

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