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Welcome to St. John's in the Mission.

Located around the corner from the busy Mission-16th Street-Valencia corridors in San Francisco's north Mission District, St. John's has been described by many as an oasis not only for the tranquility of our garden amidst the surrounding bustling streets, or the warm golden light that fills our soaring nave on a sunny day, but because so many have found St. John's to be a place of loving peace, healing, and renewal in an often all-too-broken world.

Sunday at Saint John's

Join us this Sunday May 8th at 10:15am when we will have our worship service outside in the garden.

The Palm Sunday Procession with the Congregation of Saint John The Evangelist in the Mission on April 10, 2022

The Bishop’s Committee Monthly Meeting will be held at Manny’s (16th and Valencia) this Sunday at 12:15pm.

Our Worship

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In our beautiful garden Eucharist today we sang a

In our beautiful garden Eucharist today we sang a capella, with the birds, and the flowers were in full bloom. It was lovely!

(thanks to Michael Mallory for the short video)

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We had our Sunday Eucharist in our beautiful garde

We had our Sunday Eucharist in our beautiful garden today, and heard from Lydia Bransten, Executive Director of our community partner, The Gubbio Project (@thegubbioproject) speak passionately and articulately on the subject of harm reduction, continuum of care, meeting people where they are, and love for neighbor.

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New art installation! Street artist and longtime

New art installation!

Street artist and longtime artist-in-residence at the Tenderloin Museum Deirdre Weinberg shares a temporary installation with St. John’s & The Gubbio Project of several of her large-scale portraits painted onto salvaged doors. The doors are, of course, a synecdoche for “home”–-shelter and a place of one’s own, a should-be essential that many San Franciscans are without or are in danger of losing. The doors are also a symbol for the worlds that opened up during the conversations between artist and subject. Dialogue often traversed typical points of social division (race, gender, class, etc.), and Weinberg recognized these exchanges opened a door to connect on a human level and celebrate diversity and commonalities.

As these works grace the space at St. John’s and are blessed in their proximity to Gubbio's guests, our neighbors, they take on a sacred dimension. They become objects of potential devotion for our discernment and prayer. Portraits from the street community begin to remind us of the saints and angels who walk amongst us unhoused. When does a picture of a mother and child from the street become a new icon of Mary & Child?

Artist Deirdre Weinberg will be with Saint John on May 15th after church to discuss her work, including the small sketch portraits she paints of Tenderloin residents. Beginning as early as 2018, first inside the Tenderloin Museum and later outside in the Tenderloin streets during the pandemic, Deirdre paints Tenderloin locals and gifts the mini-portraits to her subjects. In the 20-30 minutes it takes to make a painting, conversation flows, and while the small talk is sometimes pedestrian, sometimes profound, Weinberg has come to understand her portrait work as giving time and space to Tenderloin folks who struggle day to day with hardships. Weinberg dutifully documents all of these works, however, photographing each piece with its subject, and records stories and banter as people sit for their portrait.

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#throwbackthursday with familiar faces, photo take

#throwbackthursday with familiar faces, photo taken pre-pandemic. We’re still here! #StJohnsintheMission #MoreLove #MasAmor

Free Covid vaccines in the sunny St. John’s gard

Free Covid vaccines in the sunny St. John’s garden happening right now! Boosters and first shots available. This team of lovely people from the San Francisco Department of Public Health will help you out, no appointment needed. Thank you to The Gubbio Project (@thegubbioproject) 🐺 for hosting. Grab a cup of coffee too! — the garden is lovely this morning. 🌸🌿

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