Church News

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

            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 isolated communities as well as people living in deprived urban settings, most

  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. The cost is approximately £150 per adult (reduced for younger members)

Food for Thought View from Australia Thursday 29th June 2017 6.00pm to 8.00pm (arrive from 5.30pm) Guest Speaker: Dr Tim Senior Writer on poverty and health and on climate change Tim is an active member of the Uniting Church in Australia. Please bring friends, relatives and neighbours.

The Annual Church Meeting takes place after the service on Sunday May 7th. It is important that as many members of St John’s as possible contribute to the meeting. It is where you can help in the direction and leadership of the church and give support to