St. John the Baptist Parish Church is seeking volunteers who can assist with various duties, helping to look after and run the church and our church services. Please contact Rev’d Robb (01765 676298) or Churchwarden Andrew Carruthers (01765 677243) if you can help. We would like to find a musical director who can lead the choir who are desperate to begin practice and leading services once again. We are looking for a few extra people to lead the congregation in Intercessions during services. These are prayers offered to God on behalf of the whole congregation. Help is available on how to compose these prayers (a book is available and there is some guidance on the Church of England website). Please speak to Rev’d Robb if you think you might be interested. We also need more volunteers for the church cleaning rota. It usually works out about one week in every 6, working in pairs. Full instructions will be given. If you can spare a few hours and help us keep our church looking so beautiful, Jane Taplin (01765 677340) would be delighted to hear from you.
The PCC wishes to thank everyone who donated to the Gift Day appeal this year. The wonderful sum of £940.00 was donated. We will be able to claim gift aid of £210 .00 on these donations raising the overall total to £1,150.00.Your donations are hugely appreciated after the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the last eighteen months. Your generous gifts will make a significant difference in helping to meet the day to day running costs of the church. Thank you all so much Maggie Wood PCC Treasurer
Reverend Robb welcomed Dean John as celebrant and preacher, to the joint celebration of St John’s Patronal Festival with St Leonard’s Church. Robb went on to say that this will be the first of what he hopes will continue to be joint celebrations of our churches’ Patronal Festivals each year, with the services being followed by a bring and share meal. He said Dean John would be joining us as guest at our “Bring your own Picnic” to be held in the Vicarage Garden after the service. He recommended everyone to wrap up warm as the weather was forecast to be cooler than recently. The tables and chairs were already set out on the front lawn. Over 25 people attended and despite the forecast it was not at all cold and the sun even came out. We all enjoyed our respective picnics and relaxing with friends. The children enjoyed playing with “Jess” the Welsh collie belonging to Robb and Lindy. It was a really special day. Our thanks go to Robb and Lindy for sharing their garden.
