Information about Sunday programming from September through mid-June
To enroll your child in any of these programs, click HERE!
Nursery Care
St. John’s provides care for children through Pre-K1 from 9:50 AM to 11:30 AM (or to when the 10:00 AM service ends).Our Nursery is staffed by our professional caregiver, Vikki Reres and volunteer parents.
Sunday School Classes
For Both Sunday School classes, students start the service in their classrooms at 10am. (This is a change from last year, when the Elements of Faith group began in the big church.)
Children’s Chapel
Our young children (PreK to 3rd grade; families are also welcome) gather at 10:00 a.m. just outside the Sherwood Room located on the second floor of the Parish Hall. Music, prayers, and a Godly Play story follow the same order of service as in the “big church,” all designed to be especially meaningful to young children. To reinforce the Godly Play story, craft and activity time will follow.
Elements of Faith
This group uses a curriculum called Shine. It focuses on Stories of God’s People. It also follows a liturgical model that begins in prayer, moves to scripture, and then engages the children in reflection.
On Morning Prayer Sundays (2nd and 4th Sundays of the month), everyone stays in their class until services are over. Parents come to pick up the younger children at the end of the service.
On Holy Baptism (1st Sunday - and includes Eucharist) and Holy Eucharist Sundays (3rd & 5th Sundays), students return to the church and reconnect with their families for Communion. Parents may want to sit in the back of the church or balcony so that they can be found easily.
Confirmation Classes
Confirmation is a sacrament in which persons make a mature, public affirmation of their faith, a commitment to the responsibilities of the Christian life, and receive the laying on of hands by the bishop. (The person is confirming the promises that were made for them at baptism.) By custom, young people who are entering at least 7th grade are prepared for confirmation through a series of courses and community service. Aside from class time, confirmation students are expected to have regular Sunday attendance and take part in the Values & Virtues program on Sunday mornings.
There will be at eight classes for students and four corresponding classes for parents. The classes will be held every other week in the months prior to the May Confirmation. The classes for confirmands and parents will follow the 10:00 a.m. service.
For more information:
Please contact The Rev. Mary Beth Mills-Curran at [email protected] or 516-692-6368 x2.
The Cold Springer - Week of November 4th, 2018
Sunday, November 4th, 2018 - All Saints Day, Holy Baptism
The Invisible String
Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to foll...
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The Cold Springer - Week of October 28th, 2018
Sunday, October 28, 2018 - Morning Prayer Cry Out! As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth...
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The Cold Springer - Week of October 21st, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - Holy Eucharist
Signs of Success
“Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served bu...
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Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
Thursday, Nov 15, 7 pm North Shore Synagogue 83 Muttontown-Eastwoods Road, Syosset The Woodbury-Syosset Interfaith Clergy Council is excited to facilitate this interfaith service. Gratitude and thanksgiving are hallmarks of all faith tradi...
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The Cold Springer - Week of October 14, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - Morning Prayer
Honor Your Parents, Honor Your Children
“It is your parents you see when you first open your eyes, and it is their friendship that lays down the first strands of this life. If anyone f...
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Confirmation Class 2018-19: Beginning this Sunday
Sundays, October to May 11 am – 12 pm
In the course of their Christian development, those baptized at an early age are expected, when they are ready and have been duly prepared, to make a mature public affirmation of their faith and com...
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The Cold Springer - Week of October 7, 2018
Sunday, September 30th, 2018 - Holy Baptism
Little Children
“Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does ...
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The Cold Springer - Week of Sept. 30, 2018
Sunday, September 30th, 2018 - Holy Eucharist
Faith, Fear and Bravery
This week, in the “big” church, we get to hear a passage from the story of Esther. The Book of Esther is popular with members of the Jewish faith becau...
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The Cold Springer - Week of Sept. 23, 2018
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 - Morning Prayer
Children are Welcome!
“Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” Then Jesus took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he...
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Love to sing? Join a St. John's Youth Choir!
Rehearsals on Wednesdays, 4:30 - 5:30 pm Sherwood Room & Bleecker Hall, St. John's Church Steve & Josie are thrilled to begin a new year singing with your children! Rehearsals have begun, but it’s not too late to join the Primary Choir (fo...
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