OUR SCARGILL WEEKEND 2027
Next year we will have the chance to visit Scargill House in the Yorkshire Dales for a church weekend again, this time from September 17th to
19th, 2027. We have around 20 places available, and rooms will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
A limited number of en-suite double rooms are available for £207.50 per person, and other rooms (with plentiful facilities near each one) will cost £182.50 per person. To secure a room, you need first to notify Robert Beale of your intention and then to pay a deposit of at least 25 per cent. Reductions are available for students, children (under-5s go free), carers and single-parent families. The programme will run from 4pm on the Friday to 2.30pm on the Sunday.
PRAYING TOGETHER
The chapel is open again on most Monday evenings for a time of prayer. This is an informal gathering and everyone is welcome – you can join in praying aloud or just sit quietly whilst others do. The evening is led by one of our lay people and the chapel is open for around an hour.
GOOD TIME TO JOIN A HOME GROUP
The earliest Christian congregations met in people’s homes, and today at St John’s we have three fortnightly small groups. One meets on Thursday afternoons at 2.30pm in the chapel – Reverend Debra has further information; the other two groups gather on Thursday evenings – speak to Reverend Rodney or else Irene Pennington or Carol Cosham. All are for Bible study and relaxed discussion and begin new programmes in September, so now is the ideal time to join.
HARVEST TIME
Our All-Age services recommence on 4th October, and this is our Harvest Festival Sunday. We will all be together as a church family at 10.30am, with no JC Squad, and the Holy Communion service is at 6.30pm in the chapel. All gifts of tinned or dried goods, coffee, tea, biscuits and dog food will be delivered to the Booth Centre in Manchester for the homeless and needy people they serve.
PLEASE NOTE.....
Thursday Holy Communion services are to be held at St. John’s at 10.30am on 1st October, and at St Michael’s Flixton at 10.15am on 24th September.
Don't mention the C word … but please put these dates in your diaries:
13 December, 2pm-3.30pm – Messy Church Christingle.
20 December, 6.30-7.30pm – Carol Service.
A new Methodist Minister is joining the Trafford circuit: please pray for Reverend Louisa Taylor in her new role
FACEBOOK PAGE
St. John’s in Flixton has a Facebook page – search St. John’s Flixton for regular Facebook updates on events and activities taking place in church. Please “like” the page and encourage neighbours, family and friends to do the same to help us grow our followers.
Join the JC Squad!
'The J C Squad' is the new name for our Sunday School, and it runs at 10.30am during morning service. Children rejoin their parents in church at the end of the main service and often share with the whole congregation something of what they've been doing that day.