Our next and last Lent lunch for this year will be held on Saturday 13th April starting at 12:00.
The menu is Soup, lasagna, quiche, salad and desserts.
This week will be raising funds for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.
Mick Wall
Tea room
Hi and welcome to St Johns Tea room page.
The tea room is open every Sunday afternoons between 3.00 – 5.00pm
Pop in for a tea, a cake and a chat in the Tamberlin Room at the back of the church!
The tea room is a donation only place you can come and spend a minute or a whole afternoon. Any money we do collect is equally distributed between the church and a charity of our choosing.
The current Charity we are supporting is the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. (https://www.royalmarsden.org/ )
The previous charities we have supported are the
https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org
and the Orpheus Centre
Tea Room 7th April
The Tea room will be open from 3pm. We will have a large variety of cakes.
We have also chosen a new Charity to support. We will now be supporting
In recognition of the fantastic work they do.
50% of all the money we take will go to the Marsden.
The View from the Cross
A sequence of words and music for the start of Holy Week fashioned around the “Seven Last Words” of Jesus on the Cross.
Palm Sunday Evening, 14th April 2019, at 6.00pm
Hall Grange
Hall Grange have a grant to revitalise the seven acre garden created by Rev. William Wilks (2nd St John’s Vicar) and Bernard has invited Alice Henry, the Head Gardener to tidy and replant the Wilks grave plot with Shirley Poppies.Alice is meeting Bernard in the churchyard on Sunday afternoon and they will join the Tea Room folk for a chat about the scheme and a St John’s link. The Fellowship Group are planning a Sunday Ramble soon to explore the Hall Grange Garden and return for tea and cakes.
Work began on Sunday to replant the Shirley Poppies around our former Vicar’s grave. The Revd Wilks was a renowned horticulturist, who developed the Shirley Poppy from 1880 onwards.
For more information on The Revd Wilks’ early ecological garden at Hall Grange, click here http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=CRO033
Keep up with the project here – this link will take you to the Methodists’ website about The Wilderness Project to revitalise the garden at Hall Grange https://www.mha.org.uk/news-and-views/latest-news/news_archive/reclaiming-wilderness/
Lent Lunch tomorrow (6th April)
Don’t forget tomorrow there is a Lent Lunch being run to collect funds for the Demelza Hospice Charity.
On the menu there is Sausage Casserole, Beef stew and vegetarian cottage pie. Why not get to the Tamberlin room for 12 o clock and save yourself some cooking and washing up.
Numbrella has a new home for this week (7th April)
For all you attending the Numbrella extravaganza on Sunday it will be held at Joyce’s house starting at 15:00. If you are not sure where that is give her a call and she will provide guidance.
After this week it will be back at the Tea Room.
Informal Worship 7th April
We have a selection of services this Sunday so there is bound to be one suitable for all.
08:00 Said Mass
10:00 Sung Mass – families welcome
17:00 Informal worship – a more modern service with audience participation (if you want to)
Food Bank items needed
Here are the items that are urgently needed for the food bank, When you are doing your shopping why not drop a few of these in. Collection point is at the back of the church, just drop them there and you can make a difference.
Gifts from God
Beautiful daffodils at the altar on Sunday- tokens of all the love and kindness we receive from one another and from God