At the June 27th vestry meeting, the vestry enthusiastically supported a motion to dedicate the parish’s Godly Play Sunday School room in honor of John Johnson! On September 9, the Godly Play Room was officially dedicated in John’s honor.

Alexander H. (Sandy) Webb II, who was, until he started seminary this month at Virginia Theological Seminary, the Assistant to the Deputy Executive Officer at the Executive Office of the General Convention, presented John with letters from the Presiding Bishop, Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori and the the former PB, Frank Griswold. John's family joined us from Georgia at the 11:00 service of Holy Communion. During the service which concluded in the Godly Play room with prayers of dedication and dismissal. The morning continued with a festive reception in the Guild Room.

Godly Play is a program using a Montessori-based curriculum. John single-handedly initiated and developed a children’s Sunday School program approximately 12 years ago...and for 10 years John has been our children’s primary Sunday School teacher. Throughout the years our children have also enjoyed the leadership and nurture of Brian Crane and Jeff Brainard as Sunday School teachers. The entire community of St. Thomas' has been enriched by the teaching ministry of John, Brian, and Jeff, for without the witness of children and their unique experience of encountering God in community, we are less whole.

» View photos from the dedication in our gallery