Church News

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 Ghana. Following this we were able to enjoy lemon tart and milk tart

Thursday, 28 June, at 3.30 pm will be our next Messy Church.  For more information please check out our Messy Church page on our web site.

Following on from the success of last year’s course, this new Lent Course will be taking place during February and March.  The Discussion Course will be based on  ‘Another Story Must Begin’ by Jonathan Meyer.  There will be showings of the film ‘Les Miserables’ in the week

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 projects to stimulate new ideas amongst those visiting the different

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 Mission Partnership. The previous Sunday was our Harvest Festival celebration and people brought

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 so quickly that there was hardly time to take this photo before

Thursday, 12 October at 3.30 pm will be our next Messy Church.  For more information please check out our Messy Church page on our web site.

Saturday, 23 September 2 pm – 4.30 pm.  Come and join us.  Enter our competition for best decorated egg. Enjoy the Games, Stalls, Musical entertainment and a Quiz.  Tickets available from Janice Estcourt 01204 69912  Adults £5 and Children £3 (refreshments included).

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 Natter, Food for Thought and other church meetings.

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 as you did it for one of these the least of these brothers and