This year The Good Friday United Walk of Witness will start at 10 am at The Hub (opposite the library on The Orbital) and move to an open-air service outside St John’s at 10:30am. Our musicians will lead the worship… Read more

As we noted last week, PCC made the decision to start supporting Shine Pinehurst as one of its local mission partners. That means we need to bring our support to a current partner to an end. Tom, Simon and Lesley… Read more

Raymond Away Raymond will not be around from Monday to Wednesday next week, as he and Alison will be going to Salisbury for an official pre-retirement course. As it lasts three days they clearly have a lot to tell us!… Read more

Thank you for your concern and good wishes. Alison and Raymond are aware that we are by no means the only people in church currently suffering from Covid. The good news is that the actual symptoms (for us) were not… Read more

Our treasurer James Bennett, could only sit on the side-lines and watch as the Promise Cards came in, first slowly and then more quickly. The reductions in giving came in first, as is almost always the case. After two truly… Read more

PCC decided it was ready to support Shine Pinehurst for the next six years at a minimum. That meant dropping one of our other charities. This is something we do on a regular basis. We replaced Bible Society with Mercy… Read more

This Good Friday we will be holding an open air service outside St John’s, just as we did a year ago exactly. It was our first service with music group for a long time. As ever, the service will be… Read more

If you have signed up for the Living in Love and Faith Course after Easter, please feel free to pick up a book from the foyer. We have completed the second week of what is intended primarily to be a… Read more

The Real Easter Egg is not available in shops or supermarkets this year. We have 18 available to sell this year at a cost of £4.50 each. The Real Easter Egg is the only one which has an Easter story… Read more

One of the most important gifts in church life is encouragement. It is so easy to take things and people for granted. Encouragement as one of the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit, yet one we can all practise. It… Read more

We are delighted that Ali has agreed to stand as churchwarden alongside Sharon at the APCM. Wardens easily get drawn into lots of different things. We need to look after them as they look after us. They come to church… Read more

There is going to be a service of confirmation on June 12th. We welcome adults and children who would like to be confirmed. Preparation is an important part. We are considering running a group along the lines of SAS on… Read more