Due to the new national lockdown, St John's has made the difficult decision to suspend all public worship services until further notice. Our weekly online provision is as follows:
Sundays
Pre-recorded Church at Home Service
Zoom Coffee and Conversation at 11am
Zoom Evening Prayer with Sermon at 6pm
Monday - Thursday
Zoom Morning Prayer at 9am
Wednesdays
Zoom Coffee Hour and Reflection at 10am
Zoom Compline at 9pm
For links to any of our Zoom Services, please email Chris.
Printed materials are always available to those who request them and our Sunday sermon is also available on the St John's Dial A Sermon Phone Line (01223 643887)
This Sunday’s Church at Home services are detailed below:
Pre-recorded Service for the second Sunday of Lent.
This Sunday is the second Sunday of Lent. Revd Chris Campbell and Sam Duckhouse are leading our Church at Home service this week, with contributions from the choir and a number of members of the congregation. Revd James Shakespeare will be preaching, and will be particularly reflecting on Jesus' call to each of his disciples, to 'take up their cross and follow him'. You might like to watch the service at 10am, joining with many of us in doing so – but it will be available to watch any time from Saturday afternoon. The service sheet for the service can be downloaded here.
If you join us at 10am, you might like to join us afterwards at 11am for Coffee and Conversation on Zoom
6pm BCP Evening Prayer with Sermon (via Zoom)
At 6pm, we will have our online service of Evening Prayer via Zoom. All the words will be shared on the screen and it will include a short sermon/ reflection. This week it will be led by Rev James Shakespeare, with reflection from Tom Owen, our Ridley ordinand.
Please message us for the zoom links for any of our services.
Resources for the whole family can be found here.
All our past services can be found on our YouTube channel, here:
If you've been worshiping with us online, we'd love to here from you! Here's a short message from Sian, our Pioneer ALM, to say hello!
You can contact Sian via email.
For those who aren’t able to use the internet, we plan to continue uploading our weekly sermons to the St John's Dial A Sermon Phone Line (01223 643887)
The Church of England continues to produce a free dial-in worship service phone line, which includes hymns and prayers – phone 0800 804 8044.
Spiritual Communion
Spiritual Communion describes a means by which person can receive full communion with Jesus Christ, even when they are unable to partake in the Eucharist.
Two liturgies for this are given below.