Confirmation Class
Registration for the Confirmation class of 2020-2021 has started. Forms have been mailed to those we have on our roster. Please return those as soon as possible. If you have an incoming 8th grader and did not receive the mailing but are interested in joining the Confirmation class, please contact the church office at 608-325-2165, so we can send you a form.
 

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NOTICE: For the month of August
As circumstances continue to change in our community and in our world, I want to send along a reminder of the current schedule and practices at St. John’s United Church of Christ. We continue to monitor the pandemic situation through our local health officials and in close consultation with our Faith Community Nurse Vicki Keilhauer. At this point, we feel confident in offering worship in person at 9:00am on Sunday mornings while doing so with an abundance of caution. 

These precautions will include:

• Two entrances to the church will be open: the elevator entrance in the circle drive and the front doors on 14th street.

• The church will be ‘opened up’ to provide the greatest amount of circulation possible.

• Wearing a face mask is required. Please bring your own. If you do not have one, a mask will be provided for you at the door. 

• Utilizing hand sanitizer upon arrival and departure is strongly encouraged. 

• Alternate pews and staggered seating will be marked off. Family units may sit together.

• There are no bulletins, hymnals or pew Bibles available. 

• There is no congregational or choral singing. We are incorporating special music, instrumentalists, soloists, and hymn tunes.

• Offering is collected ‘drop off’ style.

• Volunteers conduct a complete cleaning of pews, bathrooms, door handles, etc. after every worship service.

• If you feel sick with any cold or flu-like systems, please stay home.

• If you are in a high risk category, and are uncomfortable in crowds, please stay home.

• Services are briefer, lasting about 30-40 minutes

• Congregation size is limited to 50 people.

We will continue to post our worship services online – check the website (stjohnsuccmonroe.com) for links to each service. 

We will continue in these practices and with this schedule for the foreseeable future. I believe it is worthwhile to offer worship in person, with as much risk removed as possible. Our spiritual health has been challenged as much as the threat to our physical health. Our health and wholeness is important, and we will continue to minister to accomplish that wholeness as best as we can. 

Peace, 

Pastor Todd

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Announcement 

St. John’s Membership Committee

Greetings members:

The Membership Committee would like to thank all members who responded to our request for pictures for the directory. Thank you!

For those members who have not submitted a picture, we request you select a favorite picture of yourself and/or family to be included in the directory. The picture needs to be in good taste, of course, and the more recent the better. They can be sent in digital format, if available, to the church office and will need to include your name and/or names of the individuals in the picture. A digital jpeg file is preferred, but we can work with printed photo formats if necessary. We will soon begin to take and schedule reservations from members wishing to have their pictures taken at several sites in and around St. John’s UCC for inclusion into the directory.

If you have any questions regarding this request or project or need assistance, please feel free to contact the Membership Committee at 715-403-1260.

Thank you from the Membership Committee.
Joel Dutenhoefer, chair