John’s is a congregation of the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). WE ARE A RECONCILING IN CHRIST (RIC) CONGREGATION. Trusting in the extravagant grace of God that sets us free, we affirm the sacred worth and dignity of our siblings in Christ – of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, racial and ethnic identities, ages, abilities, and socio-economic statuses. We confess the church’s complicity in systems that harm God’s people, including homophobia and transphobia, sexism, racism and white supremacy, and ableism. Together, as a community of Jesus followers, rooted in grace, we commit ourselves to the work of racial equity and anti-racism and to confronting and dismantling all systems of injustice and oppression in all we do and say. LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery is located on the original and ancestral homelands of the Mohican, Haudenosaunee, and Schaghticoke peoples, and we give thanks for their presence here since time immemorial. We also wish to acknowledge and honor all our Indigenous siblings who have and continue to call this land their home.
