Join us as we celebrate 60 years as a church family
2021 marks the 60th anniversary of St. John’s United Methodist Church in south Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Throughout this year we will “Give God the Glory!”
During our January 31 worship services we remembered our first 60 years and looked forward to the next 60 years and beyond. Longtime St. John’s member Danielle Blackwood shared a number of opportunities for you to commemorate this special year in the life of the church. Both 8:30 and 11 a.m. worship services are available for replay across our video channels.
Join us in celebrating St. John’s 60th anniversary as together we “Give God the Glory!”
Respond and Reflect
We need you to help us celebrate! We’re asking all members and friends of St. John’s to reflect on and answer three prompts. They can be somewhat overwhelming when first read. In order to help you answer and create meaningful dialog, we encourage you to imagine that you can share one answer per prompt, and you have 60 seconds to enlighten the audience.
- Favorite memory of something/someone at St. John’s
- Present day thing you like most about St. John’s
- What would you like to see for the future of St. John’s?
Several opportunities will be available to record your responses on video on Sunday April 11, 18 & 25 at 9:45 a.m. and Monday April 19 & 26 at 4:30 p.m. If you prefer to write or record yourself, you may email your answers and reflections to stjohns60@stjohnsbr.org. If you have any pictures from years gone by, share those as well!
Join The Second Printing Waitlist for Our 60th Anniversary Cookbook
Our first 100 copies of the St. John’s 60th Anniversary Cookbook have all been sold!
As part of our anniversary celebration and in keeping with our mission to feed people, St. John’s UMC is publishing a cookbook! St. John’s cooks–past, present and future–submitted 360 recipes for the cookbook. Each book is $20, and we encourage you to buy multiple copies, perhaps tucking one away for a future member or buying copies for grown children who grew up at St. John’s. Proceeds from the cookbook will help fund our forthcoming kitchen renovation. Thank you to all our contributors! To God be the Glory for 60 years of feeding people!
If you pre-ordered one of the first 100 copies, they will be ready for pickup beginning Sunday May 23 during our Birthday Party celebration.
If you didn’t get a chance to order or wish you’d ordered more, we’ve created a waitlist. Once we have at least 50 orders on the waitlist, we’ll do a second, and likely final, printing. Once we place the order, those books will be available a few weeks after that. Join our waitlist at stjohnsbr.org/order-cookbooks
St. John’s Swag!
Give God the Glory by wearing our 60th Anniversary commemorative logo, which were available to order on a variety of shirt types. All shirts will be navy blue, and our supplier is able to offer short-sleeve and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts, polo shirts, and button-down dress shirts. The pre-ordered shirts will be available for pickup starting Sunday May 16, and we invite you to wear them to our 60th Anniversary birthday event on May 23!
Updated Pictorial Directory
This fall we will be taking pictures for a new pictorial directory, our first one in more than five years. Sign up for pictures will begin in mid-July, and the process is set up to follow all COVID requirements. We’ll announce more details this summer!
60th Anniversary Ornament
We have commissioned local artist Kai to make ornaments featuring our beautiful Burch Bell Tower. These will be available to order later this year so they will be ready to grace our Christmas trees. Stay tuned for more details about how to purchase!
60th Anniversary Paraments
Our beautiful 60th Anniversary paraments were lovingly created by Joyce Perry. Thank you to Joyce for always sharing her time and talents. This set took five months from concept to hanging, and the pictures don’t do them justice. You’ve really outdone yourself this time, Joyce!
60th Celebration Sundays Magnet
Have you picked up your magnet listing the dates of all our 60th Celebration Sundays throughout this year? They’re available in the narthex before and after in-person worship or from the church office Monday through Friday during our abbreviated hours of 9 a.m. to noon.
60th Celebration Sundays
January 31, 2021
May 23, 2021
August 29, 2021
October 31, 2021
December 5, 2021
Give God the Glory during our 60th anniversary year