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Spire update

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Here are the latest pictures from the top of the Spire.

The shingles are nearly complete, as you can see your have to look really ‘hard’ to do this job!

Thanks to Paul for providing the photos.

Thanks for the Cinema Support

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Many thanks to all the helpers who made yesterday’s Cinema such a great success. I think we cleared the church in record time.

Thank you to all the cinema goers who turned out on a chilly Saturday to come and share this experience. We really hope you enjoyed the shows,

If you have any feedback, please use our feedback form here.

Be sure to check out our December showing on the 14th of December. We are showing “Nativity!” and Phantom of the Opera.

Why not record the strictly final and join us.

November Cinema Weekend

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Cinema @ St John’s returns this Saturday, we have Toy Story 4 in the afternoon and Rocketman in the evening. Tickets are available online

Rocketman
Toy Story 4

using the buttons above will take you to the relevant ticket page, Tickets are also available on the door.

You can also checkout the main cinema page at www.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/cinema to checkout all the films and watch the trailers.

Remembrance day

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Great service of thanks for those that went before us and a further reminder of how lucky we are.

It was great to see so many young people getting involved. Here is young Faye helping to lay the wreaths at the end of the service.

November Events

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We have lots of fundraising activities going on the November, here is how to get involved. Tickets for ALL events are available at the door, or you can buy online.

November Cinema – 16th November

November films.

Tickets for films can be found below

Toy Story
Rocketman

Aspire – 23rd November

This is being organised by the Friday Knights and it will be the first of its kind event at St John’s. There will be a house band and some absolutely fantastic musical performances. Tickets available below.

Aspire

Christmas Fair – 30th November

A great start to the Christmas Festivities, lots of stalls, refreshments and a Santa’s Grotto. Entrance just £1.50 for adults and FREE for children.

For All The Saints

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Yesterday was All Saints’ Day, and our sister Church, Shirley Methodists, marked the day with the first of the Revd. Dr Leslie Griffiths’ talks on faith, hope and love. This was a fascinating journey through reflections on the recently canonized John Henry Newman’s life, to the whole of the Christian community St Paul greets and commends at the end of Romans 16 for their friendship and service to others.

St John’s and Shirley Methodists have a long-standing friendship and commitment to work together in faith and mission in Shirley, and it was a pleasure and privilege to share in this exploration together. The series of talks runs throughout November (Fridays at 8pm), and everyone is welcome.

The Revd. Griffiths had that morning led the BBC Daily Service on the same theme, and you can listen to his thoughts and prayers here: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009td5

Tomorrow, Sunday 3rd November, St John’s will celebrate All Saints’ Day with a Eucharist at 10am. We will give thanks for the women, children and men in whose lives we have seen the grace of God powerfully at work; and we will pray that we may all grow together in the love and maturity of Christ in both the ordinary and extraordinary ways of our human living.

At 5pm tomorrow, everyone is also welcome at St John’s for our Commemoration of the Faithful Departed for All Souls’ Day. Here we will remember before God those we have known and loved, who have been with us along our spiritual journey, and who have now departed this life to rest in our Father’s eternal arms.

One family, we dwell in him,
one Church, above, beneath;
though now divided by the stream,
the narrow stream of death.
(Charles Wesley)

2019 Flower Festival pictures

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Thank you to everyone who has shared with us their photos, in particular SPAN’s Peter Barry and Alex from Picture Partnership. 

To see the missing ‘best’ 12 you’ll need to buy the 2020 festival calendar! 

  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
  • PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
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