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Outreach

The Outreach Committee provides St. John’s with a coordinated and effective channel for helping our under-resourced neighbors help themselves.

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.
  • Contributes volunteers and donations to local efforts to prevent homelessness, provide affordable housing, lessen food insecurity (alternate-end hunger), welcome refugees, offer educational opportunities, and support families. We work with Community Solidarity, Housing Help, Upholding Humanity, and other effective local organizations to serve and connect with our community.
  • Advises the vestry on additional charitable giving which 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.
  • St. Matthias School, Haiti: partnering with Ecole St. Matthias in Deslandes, Haiti to ensure the next several generations of young people grow-up educated and well-fed.
  • 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.

How can you help?
The outreach opportunities at St. John’s to put our faith into action 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 St. John's Blue Bag and bring non-perishable food and personal care items the first Sunday of each month. Click here for a helpful Blue Bag Ministry Shopping List.
  • Volunteer at Community Solidarity on Tuesday evenings to sort, pack and give out excess food from local grocery stores.
  • Help with St. John’s various seasonal donation drives, such as winter coats, adopt-a-family, holiday toys and more.

Watch the "At St. John’s" for upcoming opportunities. To participate in any part of the committee’s work or to find out more 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.


Growing Compassion through Acts of Mercy: A Lenten Series

Growing Compassion through Acts of Mercy: A Lenten Series

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Wednesdays in Lent Our Lenten Series, Growing Compassion Through Acts of Mercy, is going strong and for those who have attended, has proven to be extremely impactful. Last week, Jon Stepanian, our third speaker, told us ab...
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Project Upholding Humanity Update

Project Upholding Humanity Update

St. John’s Outreach Committee has been pleased to be a partner in the work of “Project Upholding Humanity” (PUH) since its inception. PUH is an interfaith partnership between communities of faith on Long Island to respond to the serial re...
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Three Kings Day and Housing Helps

Three Kings Day and Housing Helps

On January 5, St. John’s Outreach joined our long-standing partner Pilar Moya-Mancera and her team at Housing Help to celebrate Three Kings Day in Huntington Station. The event was in partnership with many community organizations, churches, and...
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Community Solidarity Continues to Grow

Community Solidarity Continues to Grow

St. John’s Outreach continues to foster and grow our relationship with Community Solidarity. Community Solidarity is a nonprofit Food Share that is working to help and eliminate hunger, poverty, and homelessness locally here on Long Island. The...
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St. Matthias Update: February 2023

St. Matthias Update: February 2023

It is important to start this update with a note of gratitude from our partners in Haiti. Every exchange with Pere Michaud includes an expression of gratefulness and blessings. St. John’s is always in the prayers of the St. Matthias congreg...
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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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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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Sermons

  • Nov 26 | The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach
    Christ the Kong
  • Nov 12 | The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach
    Finding God at the Melville Marriott
  • Nov 5 | The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach
    Surrender to the Holy
  • Oct 29 | The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach
    St. John's Day 2023
  • Oct 22 | The Rev. Mary Beth Mills-Curran
    Give to God

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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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Like our lives, our church community is a gift from God we neither earn nor deserve, and yet, it is ours. We are responsible for caring for it, for nourishing it, and for participating in the ever outpouring gift of God's grace which we share through our actions together. We are stewards of these gifts for as long as we live, and we steward the gift of this church so that future generations will have the opportunity to receive God’s grace and put it into action.


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