service & community outreach
St. John’s Outreach Committee meets at noon on the Third Sunday of each month to plan ministry projects in the community and the world. The Committee gives financial support to community outreach projects as well as our partner agencies Manna Meal, Religious Coalition for Community Renewal and Covenant House. The following projects have been sponsored by St. John’s and our outreach committee. Habitat for Humanity
Colors of Life Africa
Spokes for FolksSpokes for Folks is a ministry project providing bicycles to those in need of basic transportation around the city. The leader of the project, Beth Marquart was recently featured in The Living Church for this creative outreach. (Link to Spokes For Folks Making News) Here's an article from the June 4, 2006, edition of The Living Church, the weekly, national Episcopal Magazine. Click here to view the article. Note: The article is in .pdf format. This means you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. If you don't have this software on your computer, don't fret -- it's free! Click here to download your free copy of the Acrobat Reade
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St. John’s has been a leader in community outreach. Manna Meal, a soup kitchen, which feeds more than 400 people two meals a day in the parish hall, was founded by St. John’s. St. John’s has given birth to many agencies which serve the Charleston community such as 
A nonprofit, ecumenical housing organization building simple, decent, affordable housing that bi-annually St. John’s joins with other faith communities to build a Habitat Home in our community. Since its founding in 1976, 
The Outreach Committee has partnered with a co-operative in Nairobi, Kenya which provides employment for people who are infected with HIV/AIDs or who lost loved ones to AIDS. Initially the co-operative created hand crafted boxes made of banana leaves filled with hand made African crafts such as nativity scenes, jewelry or animal carvings. Our current shipment includes nativity sets packed in banana leaf boxes, colorful mobiles, brightly colored hand-woven baskets and many more items. St. John’s sells these crafts to support Colors of Life Africa. The Outreach Committee supported an exhibition booth at the 2006 General Convention of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. to promote this ministry. A resolution was passed at the 2008 convention of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia naming Colors of Life Africa as the Millennium Development Goal project for the diocese. To see photos of a sampling of crafts -- 
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