On 3 October 2019, St John's Church welcomed students and teachers from Charles Read Academy for their Harvest Festival.The students had previously brought groceries to the Academy, ready for taking to our local food banks.Their singing was first rate, and their enthusiasm in making words out of the letters H-A-R-V-E-S-T great fun. Thank you to all who gave, came and participated. Your gifts will be a huge help to our local food banks, whose shelves were beginning to look worryingly empty...
From the last week of August Revd Stephen and Revd Aron will be travelling across the benefice for the Daily Offices of Matins (9am) and Evensong (4pm).The services will be from the Book of Common Prayer. The weekly notice sheet (which can be downloaded from this website) includes details of where and when the services will be. Do join them if you can, to continue this regular cycle of prayer.
Keeping track of services across a benefice of six churches can be tricky. Here's a handy list of dates and locations of services for the month of August. Don't forget the next Messy Church, on the theme of Summer Holidays, on Saturday, 10 August, 2pm, at the Church Street Rooms.One further point to note: With the arrival of our Curate, we'll be celebrating 'red letter days' throughout the year with a said Holy Communion. Our first one is on Saturday, 24 August, on the festival of St Bartholomew the Apostle.
