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Flower Festival sponsorship

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WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO HAVE SPONSORED OUR FLOWER FESTIVAL WITH DONATIONS OF MONEY, RAFFLE PRIZES OR THEIR SERVICES.

Carroll Estate Agents

Mama’s Cakeshop

Franco & Pino Barbers

Peter Neale Hairdressers

Kerrs Accountants

LMB Group (Loft conversions)

BBS Plumbing and Plastics

Dream Doors

Croydon Kitchen Studio

Goodfella Vapes

Lisa’s Florist

Anthony Leonard Associates

Kanes Florist

Silk Hairdressers

Grove Millican (Surveyors)

Shirley Dry Cleaners

Back in Shape Clinic

V Gibson Butchers

R J Groves Associates Ltd

Empire RV Ltd

The Co-operative Group

Picture Partnership

Wickham Dry Cleaners

Romeo Italian Bistro

Stagecoach

PTA Garage Services

Shirley Shoe Repairs & Key Cutting

Velvet Beauty Rooms

Shirley Cafe

Newsrack

Java & Chai Tearoom

Barnes Nurseries

Janet Martin (Wedding/Funeral Singer)

Regal Nails

If you feel you would like to add to this list please use the contact us section and select flower festival

Alpha @ St John’s

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We will be running an Alpha ( https://alpha.org )course at St John’s starting 30th September 2019.

Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the basics of Christian faith. Typically run over eleven weeks, each session looks at a different question around faith, and the talks are designed to create conversation in samall groups afterwards. It’s totally free, it’s run all over the globe, and everyone’s welcome.

Click the image below to find out more information, watch the video and register your interest.

Flower Festival – Alex Mitchell

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Alex Mitchell (http://alex-mitchell.co.uk/) is a journalist, author and gardener. She is the gardening columnist for the London Evening Standard and the author of The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own, The Edible Balcony, The Rurbanite and Gardening on a Shoestring. She will be at the Shirley Flower Festival on Saturday 14th September to answer your gardening questions. Bring along your copy of any of her books to get them signed too.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Mitchell/e/B003X0CEWG/

For more information on our flower festival please browse our flower festival section at https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/category/flower-festival/

Healing and Wholeness next service

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Please note that there will be no service in August. The next service will be Sunday 22nd September at 5pm.

Please use the Contact Us form for any prayer requests; or the yellow prayer request cards at Church (place in basket at the back.) Or speak to the Vicar or any of us in the team, we will always pray with you if you wish.

Robert Goldsmith

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Updated with the recording.

Today we said goodbye to our friend Robert. We were very lucky this man passed through our lives, always with a smile and a story.

Rowland Brothers Funerals have a page for Robert where you can read more and make a donation to the families chosen charities. The page can be located by clicking this.

Rovert Goldsmith

Needless to say he will be missed by all his friends and family.

We recorded the service so if you would like to hear it you can listen below.

Robert Goldsmith memorial

Informal Worship Sunday 18th August

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Wondering what’s on this Sunday evening – thought so!

Here is a glimpse of the praise we will be giving Sunday @ 5pm

Please come along to our informal worship – a light and refreshing service suitable for all, coffee, tea and cake provided to sustain you,

Let’s Unleash St John’s

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St John’s are going to Spring Harvest in 2020. Its seems ages away but this gig sells out fast. Imagine worshipping, praising, learning and even having fun with 1000’s of other like minded Christians.

Spring Harvest poster

The official Spring Harvest website has loads of information, why not take a look over at springharvest.org but don’t book individually, use the below contact us link. The more of us that book together the more discount we get, its even possible we may get some free places!

Don’t fancy this interweb stuff? That’s OK, see Julie Sutton, she and Dave are experienced Spring Harvesters and can give you the low down on what to expect.

Its going to be fantastic – don’t wait! get involved now.

Want to know more or get yourself added to the list, use the contact us and choose Spring Harvest – we will get right back to you.

Film voting update

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The votes are still coming in. Mamma Mia 2 is now only one vote behind Bohemian Rhapsody and “A Star is Born” has had another vote.

Keep the votes coming on our dedicated cinema page (www.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/cinema)

UPDATE 1 August

A flurry of entries have pushed Bohemian Rhapsody way out in front…

Fundraising

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We are currently raising money to fix our spire. After many long years service the “shingles” have worn very thin which has made it easy for the parakeets to eat through them. This means we now have holes in the roof and the only way to fix it is to replace all the shingles. Please help us to fix our spire.

fix our spire, image shows holes in the roof.

All the light you can see is holes not spotlights!.

See below the current target versus the amount raised – we have a way to go.

Created using the Donation Thermometer plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/donation-thermometer/.£102,000Raised £12,800 towards the £102,000 target.£12,800Raised £12,800 towards the £102,000 target.13%

So how can you help? there are many ways

  • Attend the events that are being organised. All the current events are donating the money to the spire appeal – these are.
    • The flower festival and festival concert (flo-fest). Tickets can be obtained from Janet or online at https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/flo-fest. Early bird tickets are just £10 for the concert.
    • Starting in September the Cinema will be screening films. The first film is “The Greatest Showman”, for more information please go to our cinema page, you can even vote for the next film. (https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/cinema)
    • Visit the Sunday tea room – 50% of the all money taken goes to the Spire – the other 50% goes to the Marsden. No expenses are taken for tea room so all the money is given away, its also a great way of meeting new people.
    • Make a one off donation – these are always welcome – see one of the church wardens, Lu or Chris Nelson for more information.

Your can keep an eye on all the upcoming events by checking the events page ( https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/whats-on/ .).

Thanks for reading.

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