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St John’s Church: a Healthy Healing Hub

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Bringing Belonging, Meaning and Hope

The Healthy Healing Hub Project is a nationwide initiative run by the Guild of Health and St Raphael, a Christian charity committed to healing in its widest sense. St John’s Church joined this partnership with the Guild and other churches earlier this year and became a Healthy Healing Hub. Our aim as a Hub Church is to promote health, wellbeing and healing in our local community, working collaboratively to identify and alleviate need.

As a Healing Hub Church, we recognise the impact of the pandemic and economic downturn on the most vulnerable among us. We have a holistic outlook, caring for mind, body and spirit. Our work and witness in the healing ministry of St John’s Church community is missional in its focus on pastoral and ecological concerns and our commitment to Inclusive Church.

Please pray for St John’s as a Healthy Healing Hub, and the active conversations that are taking place as we discern together the direction of the Spirit in this work and God’s plan for the flourishing of all.

Our healing ministry is the work of the whole Church community, resourced and supported by the Guild as needed and connecting with other churches and organisations. As part of our daily eucharistic sacrifice, we offer our souls and bodies, our time and resources and open our buildings to those in need. We pray that St John’s will become a place of encouragement and renewal – bringing Belonging, Meaning and Hope.

More information from The Revd Lu Gale, or email [email protected]

Help make St John’s a Warm Space

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During this cold weather and times of hardship for many people, St John’s, like many local churches are already, is planning to offer a warm space of welcome for our community.

To help us learn more together, there is a short online training session through Eventbrite this Wednesday run by the Warm Welcome Campaign, to give some practical tips on how to get started.  It’s free, only 45 minutes and hopefully will inspire and equip us to take this forward.

As a ‘Healthy Healing Hub’ church this is part of our outreach and service, so do think about how you can help- on a rota- with making this happen, even if you can’t tune into the online information session. We will need volunteers of all kinds once we get going: setting up, chatting with people, providing something simple and warming like soup and a roll, so please pray and contact the Vicar or a churchwarden if you would like to find out more or think you can help in any way. Thank you.

[email protected]

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-a-welcoming-space-tickets-474223052917?aff=eand

December Newsletter

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