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Can you help?

• We are looking for any unwanted planters – terracotta, earthenware or ceramic. Please leave at the Vicarage.

• If you are thinning out plants or have grown seeds and have an excess of plants etc, we would be happy to receive these. We would be grateful if you could hang onto any plants until Friday 28^th May but if you have something you can offer please let us know so we have an idea of what’s coming in.

• We would welcome any help on the day – setting up and running the stall.

Please contact either Helen on 07770 885545 or Viv on 07799 571939 with details of plants, offers of help or if you have any questions.

Many thanks for all your support

7.30 pm Deanery Eucharist at St Edwards New Addington 

Preacher: The Ven Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Archdeacon of Croydon 

To visit the Christian Aid website click: UK charity fighting global poverty – Christian Aid

To give direct online click: https://envelope.christianaid.org.uk/envelope/margaret-elizabeth-bebington?channel=status By using this link it tell us how much we have raised in Shirley.

To make an offering at St John’s Church: We are open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am-12pm. You are welcome to join us for our Christian Aid service on Sunday 16th May at 10am. Please book using this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/118742813953

Our ‘Lockdown choir‘ is being unlocked!! Whilst they will be reduced in number due to social distancing rules, it will be great to hear live music again in our Church supporting our worship. Why not book to come to our 10am Mass. The anthem is “The Lord Bless you and Keep you” by John Rutter which is one of the 30 anthems and 30 hymns they recorded during the lockdown.

Equally exciting is that we will be hearing our Frobenius organ played for the 1^st time in a year. It has been cleaned and had some ‘broken’ notes fixed and in May when we hope the weather will be warmer, it will be tuned. We are very grateful to have been awarded a grant towards the cost of this from the Reginald Baker Charitable Trust. If you would like to make a contribution towards this and support the music at St John’s, please visit our giving page or use the donate button on our website. Thank you the Reginald Baker Charitable Trust and everyone who has so generously supported us over the past year.  

To visit the Christian Aid website click: UK charity fighting global poverty – Christian Aid

To give direct online click: https://envelope.christianaid.org.uk/envelope/margaret-elizabeth-bebington?channel=status By using this link it tell us how much we have raised in Shirley.

To make an offering at St John’s Church: We are open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am-12pm. You are welcome to join us for our Christian Aid service on Sunday 16th May at 10am. Please book using this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/118742813953