Remember tomorrow morning (30th April) the church will be open from 08:00 to 09:30 for Take time for God. Please feel free to come for as much or little time as you need.
News
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Shrublands Foodbank
These are the URGENT items required for the food bank. These can be left at the back of church, taken to the food bank or left in the donation box at the Shirley co-op.
More information on the food bank can he found here
Christian Aid week is coming
Christian Aid Week: ‘All mums should live’
Sierra Leone is the world’s most dangerous place to become a mum. Every day 10 women die from giving birth. In Sawula district, the community struggle with a clinic which has no electricity and only two delivery beds.
For more information and to see the video go here
APCM Sunday 28th April
Don’t forget it’s the APCM meeting after church this Sunday.
TT4G
Remember its Take time for God tomorrow morning from 8am.
The Church will be open for you to take the time out to pray for those things that are important to you.
He is Risen
Following the Dawn service we enjoyed some fellowship in the Tamberlin room.
Easter Day dawn service
Why not come and greet the risen lord
5:30 at St. John’s on Easter Day.
On Saturday we wait
The church is in darkness, the cross is the focus, we wait for the risen lord.
Good Friday services
As part of the Maundy Thursday service the church has been stripped ready for good Friday, the day Jesus dies on the cross for us.
Good Friday means we have a lot going on at St Johns. Here are the service times
9am Morning Prayer
10-11am Children’s Liturgy
1-1.50pm Stations of the Cross
2-3.00pm Liturgy of the Passion
Followed by Hot Cross Buns in the Vicarage
Maundy Thursday explained.
The Archbishop of Canterbury says
Today, Christians mark the Last Supper. On the eve of his death, Jesus washed the disciples’ feet, saying: “I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you.”
The Revd Isabelle Hamley reflects on Maundy Thursday:
Join us at our #MaundyThursday service taking place at St Johns tonight (16th April) at 7:30pm