Due to COVID-19, “The Bazaar at St. John in the Wilderness” has
been rescheduled for May, 2021. However an Online Preview Sale of select items will
be available for purchase until September 15, 2020.
The fundraiser features fine artwork, jewelry, furniture, linens and silver with proceeds
assisting local charities involving women, children and families.
Parishioners Cynthia Shannon and Linda Giltner co-chair the sale, presented by The
Episcopal Church Women (ECW).
Purchase is easy and secure. A simple text reserves your item to 864-680-2793 or 404-
539-7670. After received confirmation all sales are cash and final. Pick up is every
Tuesday from 1- 3pm and Saturday from 10am – 12noon in the parking lot of the
church’s Parish Hall through the summer.
Tuesdays are best for furniture pickup as help is on hand to load. However delivery is
not an option.
Visit https://www.stjohnflatrock.org/upcoming-events to view all items available. For
more information call (828) 693-9783.
“We have up to 80 women of the church organizing this tremendous effort,” Shannon
said. “We are grateful for the public support that will enable proceeds to be used for
community outreach benefiting thousands in our community and beyond,” Giltner
added. Charities supported in previous fundraising including Gerard’s House (autism), Safelight (battered women), Vocational Solutions (training mentally impaired), Children and Family Resource Center (assisting mothers and adolescent mothers on how to parent) IAM, and Apple County woodworkers (making wooden toys to give to children and teaching woodworking) and many others.
History of the church and event: The Episcopal Church of St. John in the Wilderness
began with a donation from the Baring family in 1836. That donation to Bishop Ives and
the North Carolina Episcopal Diocese was land, and the family Chapel that stood upon
that land. On that day in 1836, twenty people signed a vestry book forming themselves
into the congregation of the church of St. John in the Wilderness.
St. John in the Wilderness holds firm to a long-standing history of community outreach
at home and abroad. At least 30 ministries currently benefit from financial donations,
gifts and services as varied as orphan support in the country of Moldova to backpacks
filled each weekend with food for hungry children in seven Henderson County public
schools.
The fundraiser now known as the Bazaar at St. John in the Wilderness originated in
1880 and is now organized by The Episcopal Church Women (ECW). For the past 140
years, it has been known by various names, but its focus remains unchanged: providing
valuable assistance to the community. This year the ECW honors this storied history
with a poster design similar to the one used in August of 1900.
