St. John UCC of Fairview Heights

02/18/2026

Join us today at noon or 5 pm for Ash Wednesday, or anytime in this season of Lent.

02/18/2026

Ash Wednesday today -- the beginning of Lent and the road to Easter. Join us at noon or 5:00 pm for dispensation of ashes. All are welcome.

01/09/2026

Join us for a renewal of baptism vows this Sunday. Hope to see you!

12/26/2025

End the old year on a high note --- with worship! Sundays at 10:00 a.m.

11/29/2025

Service is cancelled for November 30, 2025 due to the weather.

11/13/2025

🙏🏾 God of love and justice,

Stand with those whose tables are empty.
Move through the hands that deliver food,
Through the hearts that resist indifference,
Through the voices that speak justice to power.
Come, God of the Kin-dom,
Tear down the halls where greed sits,
Shake the rooms where vanity prays,
Turn over the tables where apathy reigns,
And plant your love in the hearts of all who feed,
May we see hunger and act.
May we see injustice and resist.
May we see one another and recognize your image.
Because feeding individuals isn’t political.
It’s holy.
It’s justice.
Amen

-Reed Kirkman
McKinney, TX

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08/27/2025

08/27/2025

Farewell to our Hackberry tree behind the church.

07/21/2024

Join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:00!

04/12/2024

This is one of many prayers being written by congregants of UCC churches. Follow the UCC to read these heartfelt prayers daily.

🙏🏾 O God...

Our hearts break for the lives lost, the lives limited by fear, the lives overcome by grief. For the communities in conflict, the neighbors who can't find common ground, the families embroiled.

Holy One, infuse your peace into all these broken and hurting spaces.

Blow your Spirit of possibility and healing throughout your Creation.

Bless us, your people, that our hands and feet and hearts and minds and voices might be instruments of your Peace. Amen.

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OPEN DESCRIPTION: Image of an open bible and hands clasped in prayer. Prayer excerpt from Molly: O God, our hearts break for the lives lost. For the communities in conflict, neighbors who can't find common ground, the families embroiled. Infuse your peace into all these broken and hurting spaces. Bless us, your people, that our hands, feet, hearts, minds and voices might be instruments of your Peace. Amen.

04/11/2024

🙏🏾 Creator,

We pray for the staff of World Central Kitchen, who were killed in Gaza while trying to feed the hungry.

We pray for the doctors in Gaza, who no longer have a place to treat the sick and injured.

We pray for hungry children and their mothers and fathers, and ask for peace and comfort to those who have lost loved ones in this conflict.

We pray for the people of Ukraine, who have been battling for their freedom for over a year.

We pray for a cease fire for these countries. May it be so.

Join us in praying for peace! Read the submitted prayers and add your own: https://ow.ly/Ms5C50RcOSU

OPEN DESCRIPTION: Image of candles. Anonymous prayer excerpt: We pray for the staff of World Central Kitchen, killed in Gaza while trying to feed the hungry. We pray for the doctors in Gaza, who no longer have a place to treat the sick and injured. We pray for hungry children and their mothers and fathers, and ask for peace and comfort to those who have lost loved ones in this conflict. May it be so.