Fellowship Afloat’s outdoor activity centre on the converted lightship Trinity was featured in last week’s BBC Songs of Praise. The program can be found on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001pp5n/songs-of-praise-colchesters-christian-heritage

We had a fantastic indoor Ice Cream Sunday service last weekend. A huge thankyou to everyone who helped make it such a wonderful experience!

We now have enough volunteers to keep St John’s open during this year’s Ride & Stride. If you would like more information on how to take part in the event as a rider or strider, please contact the Parish Office.

We are praying for sunshine, but if the weather turns out to be particularly “typical British summer 🌧” this weekend, we’ll move indoors where we can continue to enjoy worship together and have some lovely ice cream afterwards!

The Well Church, who currently meet in St Francis Primary School on Sundays, have a new home. The Diocese of Bristol have bought the Christ the Servant Church building in Abbey Meads (currently empty since the previous church closed) to… Read more

The North Swindon Cluster of local churches is holding an ecumenical worship event on 23rd September at Rodbourne Cheney Baptist Church. The well-known Ghanian worship group “Joyful Way” have been invited to visit Swindon and will lead the worship. It… Read more

Our prayer meeting for August will be held next week on Wednesday 16th August at 7.30pm in the church Quiet Room. Please come along if you can. Lifts are available through the lift-sharing scheme if transport is a problem.

We have received the following letter from Bwaziba school, which St John’s supports through our link with Uganda. This is Mabel the new Headteacher of Bwaziba c/u primary who has replaced Akuro. I am glad to have had this opportune… Read more

This year’s Ride & Stride, in aid of Wiltshire’s Historic Churches Trust, is taking place on 9th September. On the day, we’ll need a team of people to be in St John’s to welcome participants and stamp their sponsorship forms…. Read more

How do you tackle a problem like poverty? Heather and Tom are leading our service this week looking at the work Christian charity Compassion does to tackle poverty through child sponsorship. Compassion works in 25 countries around the world working… Read more

With many people on summer holidays and to give the leaders a break, there will not be any children’s or young people’s groups during the 11:00 services. Instead we will try to keep the sermons shorter and simpler, reduce the… Read more

Our PCC met last Monday and made a number of important decisions regarding the vacancy. The Parish Profile was agreed upon and it will shortly be sent to the Diocese and CPAS (Our Patron). We have requested that +Viv write… Read more