St. John's Episcopal Church

This wiki documents St. John's Episcopal Church, a historic Episcopal parish at 424 Washington Street in Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia (see st-johns-portsmouth). The site is built from three parish reference pages (the page-3190989 home page, the page-3190998 leadership page, and the page-3191012 prayer and support page) and a large set of event pages covering roughly June 2025 through November 2026.

The parish reference pages cover the church's welcome message, worship schedule (Sunday Eucharist at 8am and 10am, online worship, and daily Compline), the Memorial Garden, and giving. They also describe governance, which is shared among the Rector, the Vestry, and the Endowment Committee, along with prayer ministry, pastoral care, and discretionary fund assistance.

The event pages show a parish that combines liturgical life with open community use of its historic space. They include the Christmas Eve services, the full Holy Week sequence of 2026 (Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday and the Community Easter Egg Hunt), a blessing of the new school year, and community events such as the Fall Community Blood Drive, the Neighborhood Block Party, An Evening in Tuscany, the Steeple to Steeple Tour, and the Sail250 open houses. Many concerts also take place there: the Candlelight Concerts series, the Live at St. John's acoustic series, a Flute and Harp Concert, and Virginia Arts Festival appearances.

The log records ingests of these pages. Some events listed there, such as Ascension Day and Death by Chocolate, Children's Harbor Graduation, and Bring your pet to Worship, are not in the current catalog, so the index may be incomplete for them.