St. John's Bloomfield

07/16/2026

Good things are happening with our brothers and sisters in the Southeastern District!

07/14/2026

07/11/2026

Our food pantry will be open today from 11:30am-12:30pm. All are welcome! No ID check.

07/04/2026

For Christians in America to celebrate the Fourth of July is good and right. We are citizens of this nation, enjoying its privileges and embracing its responsibilities. So today, we grill our hamburgers, wave our flags, and shoot fireworks.

Yet, while we are citizens of this nation, our ultimate allegiance is to God as members of the kingdom of his Son. His reign, teachings, and ownership of us trump everything else. Christ is not a president we elect; he is the King under whose reign we live.

This means, at a bare minimum, that when the government or its leadership should ever ask us or try to force us to do something that, as citizens of Christ’s kingdom, we cannot do, our response must echo the apostles: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

It also means that our beliefs, worship, priorities, loves, and overall worldview are not shaped by the American ethos but by the teachings of the Christian Scriptures.

The Epistle of Diognetus, written in the 2nd century, captures these truths beautifully when it says of Christians: “They participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners.”

Here is the context:

“For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or custom. For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do they speak some unusual dialect, nor do they practice an eccentric way of life. This teaching of theirs has not been discovered by the thought and reflection of ingenious people, nor do they promote any human doctrine, as some do. But while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one’s lot was cast, and follow the local customs in dress and food and other aspects of life, at the same time they demonstrate the remarkable and admittedly unusual character of their own citizenship. They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.” (Michael Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers in English).

This is a sober truth to ponder as we celebrate this day.

07/02/2026

Our food pantry will be closed tomorrow for the holiday. Please stay indoors during this heat wave.

Take advantage of the cooling center at the Bloomfield Civic Center 8am-4:30pm from Monday-Friday.

06/21/2026

If our country were invaded, about 90% of the soldiers who took up arms to defend us would be men.

If a criminal is breaking down your door and you call the police, there’s about an 85% chance the officer who shows up to put his life on the line for you will be a man.

If you need electrical work, plumbing, or welding done, about 95% of those who do such hard work are men.

If you need goods hauled from shore to shore by truck drivers, around 90% of them will be men.

Thank God for the men who do such work—and all other kinds of labor—most of whom do it to care for their wives and children. Thank God for all men who get out of bed and are off to their jobs so their families have a roof over their heads and food on the table.

Families need fathers. Daughters need dads. Sons desperately need dads. You can look up the stats that prove the deleterious effects of fatherless households. Or you can just open up the Bible and read Genesis 1-2 to see that God created a man and woman to be a husband and wife, and together to procreate and raise children.

Are men perfect? I don’t need to answer that. We all know the answer, especially us men. And the same answer applies to women. None of us are: women, men, mothers, fathers. We are all deeply flawed people, all living by the mercy of a good God.

That same merciful God has put us all together on this planet to live, to love, to work, to worship. Men do men things. Women do women things. God uses fathers in ways that mothers can never replicate. Just like he uses mothers in ways that fathers can never replicate. Parenting is not a competition between the sexes.

Today is Father’s Day. A day of gratitude for men who shoulder tremendous burdens, provide for their families, take them to church, teach their sons to be men, show their daughters that they are loved and respected, and will do whatever it takes to protect their families from harm.

Fathers. Thank God for them.

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth!

06/11/2026

"So, 1 disagree with the idea of closing 500 congregations, which leads me right back to the questions of SMP and education. I do agree with him that we need more schools. I believe"........ Read the rest of the blog post by Anthony Giordano HERE:👇👇👇👇

https://www.uniteleadership.org/post/preserving-the-smp-pathway