Welcome to St. John's Episcopal Church
 Welcome to the webpages of St. John's Episcopal Church, located in the Eau Gallie section of Melbourne, Florida. We hope that you will find the information you need in these pages, but even more than that we hope that you will come to a Sunday service, or other event attractive to you. We want to meet you in person, and have the opportunity for you to know us!If you have specific questions that we can help with, please do not hesitate to email me by
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. Welcome, and happy surfing! In Christ, The Rev. Eric Turner, Rector |
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From the July/August "Good News":
Dear Friends,
Environmentalists. Do you envision a bunch of hippy tree huggers? In my college years, I was a bit of an environmentalist, and I looked the part. Long, shaggy hair, scraggly beard, lots of hiking and backpacking, and I nursed a healthy disdain for corporate America and the Army Corps of Engineers. I quit smoking so I could complain about others polluting my lungs with a clear conscience. I planned on graduate school and a career doing scientific research that, I imagined, would lead to more effective public policy regarding the environment. While I never hugged a tree threatened by loggers, or got arrested, I had some credibility as a ‘70’s era tree hugger.
When I turned to Christ, which happened in a genuine and serious way soon after college, I just dropped that part of my life. I never decided that I wasn’t an environmentalist, but it just wasn’t what drove me. I went off to seminary and other priorities came into my life. I continued to love the outdoors, but as a diversion and a reminder of the wonder of God more than a life mission.
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 Fr. Eric Turner, his wife Charlene, and daughter Elizabeth will be leading Uganda Youth Mission 2010 to Uganda. A team of American and Ugandan teenagers will live, travel and work together to deliver and install solar lighting systems in several schools in rural, southwestern Uganda.
This is the eleventh Youth Mission trip, but this year, for the first time, we will be returning to sites where we have formerly done installations, and we will have team members from two of the schools where we will work so that they will have a better familiarity with the systems and how they work.
The Turners will depart Monday, July 5 to head to Washington DC to meet the American side of the team and have a brief orientation. They fly out on Wednesday, July 7, arriving in Uganda on Friday, July 9. The flight schedule actually allows about a 12 hour layover in London, so we will be able to treat the team to a quick tour of a some of the major sights and sounds of London! The team will travel and work for two weeks in Uganda before returning on July 21.
Click here, which includes a schedule of daily activities.
We are still raising funds for this trip and contributions are gladly accepted. You may make a check payable to St. John’s and write “Africa” in the memo line.
Thanks to all for your prayers and support!
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St. John's normal duty day providing volunteer workers at the "Daily Bread" soup kitchen is the fourth Thursday of each month. Call (321-254-3365) or
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the church office if you would like to help out!
Our next duty day will be Thursday, July 22.
Click here to learn more about Daily Bread. |
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St. John's has an email "chat" list for updates on church events, prayer requests, discussion of matters in the church and occasional news and information from Fr. Eric. If you would like to receive these emails, just
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