Ascensiontide and APCM

Dear friends at St John’s Over the past few months, the ministry team and PCC have been working on developing a renewed vision for St John’s.  As part of this process, we are inviting the whole church to join with us in prayer during the ten days of Ascensiontide.  From Ascension Day (Thursday 14th May) until Pentecost (Sunday 24th May), the church celebrates that Jesus is alive and reigns in heaven, and we wait in expectation for the promised Holy Read more

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 10-16 May

There will be a dedicated collection for Christian Aid at the 8.00am & 10.15am services at St John’s on Sunday 10 May. Donations can be made via the card reader (on Sunday 10 May only) & Christian Aid envelopes will be available. This year’s appeal focuses on urban farming projects in Nairobi, Kenya. Through Christian Aid’s partner, Beacon of Hope, women living in urban poverty are being given tools, seeds & training to grow fresh Read more

My Trip to Jerusalem

One of the oldest pubs in England is ‘Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem’. The name captures how important a journey to the Holy Land was to Christians in years gone by. An expedition from England to the Middle East was, in the Middle Ages, a daunting and dangerous, and extremely lengthy, undertaking. One might reflect on how things have changed – in some ways, not much. I have long wanted to visit Jerusalem, more because Read more

God, nature and us

Environmental issues are in the news all the time, whether it is sewage in our rivers or the new British ‘monsoon season’ each winter, or the decline of many of our wild animals, such as hedgehogs. It’s not a very cheerful message, so how should we respond as Christians? Psalm 24 begins: “The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.” All life on this Earth belongs to God – he has created it and loves everything Read more