A number of services and events took place in the church on Remembrance Sunday, 10th November 2019.

Memory is a strange thing. Many of us – and not only those of more mature years – will find we can vividly recall events of many years ago, but forget things that happened yesterday, or even why we came upstairs five minutes ago! Memory can also be an illusion; do we really have that childhood memory, or have we heard the story of a certain event so often that we think we remember it?

The answers to the recent Food Bank Quiz are now available.

For the October talk Surgeon Harding explained how surgery was carried out Worcester Infirmary in the late Victorian era. Paul was the only one who turned up in fancy dress as he dressed as the Victorian Surgeon.

A selection of the wonderful flowers that the Flower Ladies of St Johns created for Harvest.

Eleven years ago, during a group discussion at theological college, we somehow ended up talking about famous fish of the Bible. Given the lack of contenders in this category (the fish in Jonah notwithstanding), it mystifies me now how we got into this topic, what we were meant to be discussing, or how we kept going for so long. I certainly never imagined that more than a decade later, I would be writing a magazine piece about animals of the Bible.

Calling all young actors and actresses!

Children aged 3-11 are invited to take part in our Community Nativity.

55 people joined the coach at St John’s for the trip to Trentham Gardens and Shopping Village, which is near Stoke-on-Trent. This was probably the most we have had on one of these trips and once again everyone enjoyed themselves.

Ordinary Time between Pentecost and Advent can drag on a little, so I think I’m going to launch a campaign for the end of September to the beginning of December to be officially designated Angeltide!
On September 29th we celebrate the feast day of St Michael and All Angels and at the end of October we have All Hallows. No sooner have the pumpkins and witches’ costumes left our shop shelves than their place is taken by Christmas cards and decorations in which angels feature prominently.