Serve

Many hands

On Sunday mornings, in the garden, in the kitchen, and with our neighbors in Park Slope, there’s a place for you to help. No experience needed, and no year-long commitment.

I’d like to help Ways to serve

Volunteers in aprons smiling around a prep table in the St. John's kitchen at Thanksgiving

With our neighbors

Serving at CHiPS

Since 1971, CHiPS (Community Help in Park Slope) has fed our neighbors right here in Park Slope, with a food pantry and the Frances Residence, a home for new and expecting mothers and their babies. We go together for a shift, and new faces are always welcome.

Dates are in the newsletter

650+

Hot breakfasts and lunches a day

Six days a week

A short walk from St. John’s

Ways to serve

Find your spot.

Parishioners greeting each other during the peace at St. John's

Sundays at 10

Sunday mornings

Readers · Ushers · Acolytes · Sound

Read a lesson, welcome people at the door, serve at the altar, or help run the sound. We’ll show you how, and you can try it once to see how it feels.

I’d like to help

During the service

Sunday School

Sundays at 10 · Downstairs · Kindergarten–6th grade

Help Chelsy DeHart with the kids downstairs: a lesson, a craft, a snack, and plenty of questions.

Email Chelsy

Behind the scenes

Altar Guild

Before and after services

The quiet work that makes Sunday beautiful: setting the altar, caring for the linens, candles and silver, and getting ready for the big days of the year.

I’d like to help

Volunteers with leaf bags after a garden cleanup at St. John's

Outdoors

The green team

Through the seasons · The garden on St. John’s Place

Our garden is a gift to everyone who walks by. Help plant, weed, rake and keep it beautiful, and get to know the neighbors who stop to say hello.

Join the green team

Volunteers chopping together around a table in the St. John's kitchen

Once a year

Thanksgiving in the kitchen

Thanksgiving Day · The church kitchen

Every Thanksgiving, the kitchen fills up with volunteers chopping, cooking and laughing to prepare a holiday meal. Bring an apron and an appetite for work.

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