I’m Father Phil Cooke, Rector/Pastor of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church and chaplain for St. John’s Preschool.

I have the delight to be a grandfatherly greeter of children and families in the morning.  It is important for me to know your name and my memory is aided only by a daily prayer list.

We do a preschool wide faith values program with a regular chapel.  Children will learn many songs and also experience our Puppet Theatre.  I strongly believe that parents are the most important faith mentors of their children and are crucial in how a child’s faith values are fine-tuned to his or her own family’s faith expressions.  We are blessed to have families of diverse confessional communities and in our chapel we present the common values of faith while acknowledging our own Episcopal tradition which is based upon respecting the dignity of every person.