Grow in Love:
Faith, Hope, and Generosity

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"And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."

  • 1 Corinthians 13:13 

St. John is growing and we need your support.

Thank you for prayerfully considering your 2027 financial commitment to St. John's.

And as the unpredictableness and unlikeliness of our community grows in love, so do our financial needs to support the work of the church amongst us and in the world. As you consider your annual gift to St. John’s for 2027, I thank you for all the ways you help make our community a beautiful and unlikely haven of God’s grace and love in the middle of downtown Milwaukie.

Our goal is to increase our giving this year by 10% over the amount pledged in 2026. If you have given in the past and are able to increase your gift, thank you.

If you are new to St. John’s or have never pledged before, we invite you to make a financial commitment for next year.

You can get a pledge card in the office, or you can make your pledge now by clicking HERE to go to the Google Form virtual pledge card.

Grow in Love

Grow in Love

The word love is perhaps the most overused and ill-defined in the English language. For example, the same word can apply to how I feel about my children, my God, AND my new shoes.

The scholar NT Wright suggests that for earliest writer in the of the New Testament, Paul, love means “there is now a community which is living as a highly unlikely, unpredictable community.” (You can listen to NT Wright speak briefly about here).

That is what I hear in these beautiful voices and faces in the video, that the love we have for God and one another and the community that gathers at St. John's are inseparable. 

And as the unpredictableness and unlikeliness of our community grows in love, so do our financial needs to support the work of the church amongst us and in the world. As you consider your annual gift to St. John’s for 2027, I thank you for all the ways you help make our community a beautiful and unlikely haven of God’s grace and love in the middle of downtown Milwaukie.

Thank you for prayerfully considering your 2027 financial commitment to St. John's. If you have not pledged before, please consider making a commitment. If you have given in the past and are able to increase your gift by 10%, thank you. And thank you for all you are and all you do to make St. John's such a loving community.

Rev’d Jeanne +