The YWAM team are trusting the Lord to provide the funds for the next 2 instalments needed by the end of 2015 (each of £65,000) to enable them to purchase their premises in Jinja, and praise the Lord that the first £65,000 needed as a down payment was reached in August enabling YWAM to sign…

St John's will be hosting the deanery confirmation service on the evening of Sunday 18th October this year. If you are interested in being confirmed please contact Rev'd Tim Stanford.

An amazing £273.98 was raised by the Tearfund lunch for the "No Child Taken" Tearfund campaign, which took place at St John's recently. The meal consisted of various home-made soups, bread rolls and cheese.  A 13 year old girl in the film shown during the morning service is now in secondary school, and another girl…

St John's will shortly be running an Alpha course, due to start on Friday 1st May - this is for anyone who would like to learn, find out more or ask questions about the Christian faith and explore what it means to be a Christian, in a friendly and informal atmosphere. Anyone who is interested…

This year we are again taking orders for these high quality Fairtrade milk chocolate eggs which come with a pack of Fairtrade chunky buttons, a 24 page Easter story book with quiz and a 3ft Happy Easter banner. Price £4.

This is the title of the book of poems compiled by St John's church member Carole Moorhouse after inviting contributions from people she knows, as a follow-up to her first collection of poems in 2011, "It don't have to Rhyme, Not All of the Time". In the end this collection turned out to be a true community project , with 48 people -…