29th March Service – Jim Hodgkinson
Although we cannot meet together in church for our services at the moment, Jim Hodgkinson has made available the service he has prepared. The service is designed to be used for personal devotion while ...
Abbot Hall Weeknd Away – June 2018
On a gloriously hot weekend (Friday 29th June - Sunday 1st July) twenty nine member of St John's spent time together at Abbot Hall. It was a time of relaxation and of getting to know each other even b ...
Food for Thought with Jennifer
On Tuesday 12th June our regular Food for Thought evening had a distincly African theme. We began with an African meal inspired by Sally Annan-Mensah who prepared soups based on her own homeland of Gh ...
Circuit Mission Fair
On Sunday 26th November 2017 St John's took part in the circuit Mission Fair. Each church displayed material to show what they are doing in all sorts of areas of Mission. There was a large variety of ...
Harvest here and in Kakrao
Food for Thought - Tuesday 3rd October 2017 This was an opportunity to share our thoughts about harvest in the affluent western world with the situation in Kakrao, Kenya, with which we enjoy a Missio ...
Biscuits for sale
Our Send a Cow mission project is benefiting from the efforts of Margaret Wardle who is selling home-made "Cow" biscuits (and buns) to have with coffee after church (or to take home). They are going s ...
Look out for the milk churn
The "Send a Cow" milk churn and milking stool is out and about. This is our regular means of donating to our church Mission Partner - The Kakrao project in Western Kenya. Look out for it in Cup and Na ...
Mission Service launches “Send a Cow”
On Sunday 13th August 2017 the Sunday service at St John's reflected on our call to Mission under the heading "INASMUCH....", referring to the passage in Matthew's gospel in which Jesus says "Inasmuch ...
Food for Thought – View from Australia
On June 29th we held our third Food for Thought evening. We heard from Dr Tim Senior about his work as a GP in Australia with a number of is ...
Church Weekend 2018
We are organising another church weekend away for the whole of the church family and friends. This will be from Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st July 2018 at Abbot Hall in Grange over Sands ...