Annual Parochial Church Meeting @ St John’s, Sunday April 7th after the service
Dear Members and friends, This year the APCM (Annual Parochial Church Meeting) will be held on Sunday April 7th at 11.45am at St John the Baptist Capel. Please join us for this annual meeting where we can come together to review the past year in our wonderful parish. If you wish to be elected to serve on the PCC please complete a nomination form, with Proposer and Seconder and hand it to the Chairman or Secretary at the beginning of the APCM. The APCM Report is attached here so you can read up ahead of the meeting. APCM Report 2023 R We hope to see many of you at the there. The PCC PS apologies for the email earlier today. This is a new ‘newsletter’ specfically for important announcements and the system accidentally sent an email for an existing post.
Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury – Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby: ‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee’ (Psalm 122) Our grief and shock only grows greater as more devastating news and images emerge from the abhorrent terrorist attacks in Israel. The agonising suffering endured by those who were targeted and their families can scarcely be imagined. Our hearts are broken open by the grief of Israelis and our Jewish brothers and sisters around the world, for whom this trauma and loss stands in the dark and terrible shadow of the worst days of their history. I beg that those who have been taken hostage are set free into safety, that they and their loved ones might be released from the horror of their captivity. The anger felt by the people of Israel at the cruelty they have experienced is entirely justified. Many around the world share in that anger. But in the face of a ground offensive in Gaza, I plead that the sins of Hamas are not borne by the citizens of Gaza, who themselves have faced such suffering over many decades. The price of evil cannot be paid by the innocent. Civilians… Read More
Reports to the Special Parochial Church Meeting – 11 Feb 2018
Dear Friends, Please find attached the report over 2017 to the coming Special Parochial Church Meeting on Sunday Feb 11th after the 10:30 service. SPCM report 2018