Click here for a personal message from Bishop Rob

Our Mission

We are called to serve our local parish and the wider community, so that what we say and do reflects our love of God in Christ Jesus such that people will find a spiritual home here with us.

Welcome to all

If you have been accessing our live-streamed services, or simply looking at our website, welcome! Perhaps you find church on line easier to try out than a physical building, perhaps these extraordinary times have triggered something spiritually inside you, perhaps you would appreciate linking with a Christian community.

If, for whatever reason, you would appreciate some human contact with our church, or have a question, then please click here to email us and one of us will get back to you.

Our first points of contact during Covid-19 lockdown are

Priest in Charge Bishop Rob Gillion .....07465 696419
Hon Assistant Priest Rev. Pat Willson...01775 422815 Churchwarden Sally Sneath....01775 640368
Secretary - Freda Hilliar ........................01775 766048 Treasurer - Julie Millington .....01775 767549
Please note that, as our Parish Office cannot be manned at the moment, voice messages left on 01775 718237 may not be received or acted upon. Please contact us via one of the numbers listed above.

4th Sunday after Trinity (05/07/2020) Welcome to Bishop Rob's service this week in which he explores the phrase, "Come to me and I will give you rest." As before, the voices and music of the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, are included with their permission and with the permission of the Church of England and the "achurchnearyou.com" website under our CCLI Copyright Licence 278109 and our CCLI Streaming Licence 789012.

The latest Service Video will always appear above and all Bishop Rob's previous services and video messages are available on our Video Library page

Podcasts

Click here to go to Bishop Rob's Podcast page Click here for Revd Pat's Podcast Page

Anybody who you know who doesn't have Internet Access may like to try this new Church of England freephone number to listen to talks, prayers and hymns in their own home.

A message from Lawrence, our Website Editor

Welcome to everybody, particularly to anybody who has "just landed" on our site for the first time. If you would like to make contact with our church community then please click here to email our priest, Bishop Rob.

We are re-open for for our first service at 10:00am on Sunday 12th July so please check for the latest details on the News Flash page. We will also be live streaming this service via a zoom meeting. Please email Lawrence for Zoom access details (see below).

We have recently added the facility for visitors to our website to make donation to our Church Funds directly from our website. You can do this from our new Donations Page.

Our heartfelt thanks must continue to go out to Bishop Rob & Janine for their deep, insightful and moving video services through the many weeks of "lock-down." I am sure that we are all enjoying the voices from the Choir of St Martin in the Fields bringing music to our services.

So our thanks to all who have contributed to our video streamed services in any way!

Thanks to all who have contributed to our Community Page. If you would like to contribute then please email me by clicking on the "Email Lawrence" link below, or follow the link from the Community Page. Please have a look around our website to see what we do at St John's during normal times.

Best wishes and stay safe!

Lawrence (St John's Website Editor) 08/07/2020

Click here to Email Lawrence

Please click here for an update from Freda, our PCC Secretary

The changing effects of Coronavirus Updates and Instructions on the ongoing daily life of our Church will be posted here and, where appropriate, on the relevant pages. In the meantime we pray for the safety of the whole community in which we are called to serve.

13:30 on 17/03/2020 - The Church of England has now suspended all public worship. Our regular services will therefore be suspended until further notice.

Click picture below to see images of our recent Candlemas Service