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Coffee (or tea), company and chat

Our Tea, Coffee and Chat afternoons continue this month on Tuesday 5th March from 2pm to 3.30pm. Come along and join this social event – and bring your friends and neighbours: the church is warm and open to everyone to enjoy time together.

 

Christmas collections

The PCC has made donations of £100 each, based on our Christmas collections at the Crib and Carol services, to Francis House, the local children’s hospice which cares for and supports families of children with life-shortening illnesses, and also to the Gaza Crisis Appeal of the charity Embrace the Middle East (formerly the Bible Lands Society, publishers of the Bethlehem carol sheet and for many years active in the Holy Land).

 

At Home in Lent’

Our own Lent evenings take place in the side chapel on Thursdays the 7th, 14th and 21st March, from 7.30pm each time, running for approximately an hour. The theme is “At Home in Lent”, and sessions will include prayers, Bible reading, reflection, discussion and music.

 

l There are also ecumenical Lent studies on Tuesday afternoons, from 2pm, on the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th March, at the John Henry Newman parish centre (formerly Our Lady of the Rosary church) at the Nag’s Head roundabout. Each afternoon will begin with drinks and cake, then one of our local ministers will lead a session with worship. Entrance is free, but donations are welcome: see Reverend Debra for further details.

 

l And there’s an online Lent meditation and reflection led by our Area Dean, Rev Nick Watson, now running on Thursdays at 7.30pm, for anyone unable to join an in-person group. For details and the Zoom link, please email him (nickwatson@manchester.anglican.org).

 

Ready for the annual meeting

The church annual meeting (or APCM) will take place on Sunday 14th April after the morning service. This is when we receive our Financial Statement for 2023, with reports on the work of the church during the past year, and also elect our churchwardens and PCC (Parochial Church Council) members for the forthcoming year. There are special forms for the nomination of PCC members and churchwardens – please use one if you would like to make a nomination, and remember you need to ask your nominee if they are willing to stand and also find a seconder.

To have a vote at the APCM in the PCC election you have to be on the church Electoral Roll. Everyone who’s a baptized Christian, aged 16 or over and either lives in the parish or has attended St John’s for at least six months is welcome to apply to join the Electoral Roll. (You don’t have to have been a Church of England member before, providing your original church believes in the Trinity). There are forms available in church if you would like to do this. For anyone already on the Electoral Roll a form only needs to be completed if your details have changed – if you need to update your details or wish to be added to the roll, please speak to Rev. Debra. The closing date for applications this year is Monday 18th March.

 

Please note . . .

Our local Mission Community’s prayer gatherings continue on Thursday 14th March, from 7.30 to 8.30pm, at St Matthew’s Stretford. These are open to all.

It’s Messy Church for Easter on Sunday 17th March, from 2.30pm to 4pm. Please let all your friends and neighbours know and encourage as many young people as possible to attend.

24th March is Palm Sunday, so come and join our morning celebration in church at 10.30am.

Easter Sunday is 31st March, and there will be an Easter egg hunt for all our young folk, as well as joyful worship. And remember the clocks go forward that morning!

 

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE

St. John’s in Flixton now has a new 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.


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Licensing of Rev Debra Blair as Incumbent of St John's

The Rev Debra Blair was licensed as the Incumbent of St John's Flixton on Sunday 23rd October 2022, in a service at St John's  led by the Bishop of Middleton, the Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, and the Archdeacon of Manchester, the Ven. Karen Lund. Guests were welcomed from both our parish and the wider church in our area for this special celebration of a new phase of ministry. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


St John’s Football Project

Our football coaching club with a Christian message, supported by Ambassadors Football (ambassadorsfootball.org), is at 2pm on Sunday afternoons at St John’s. It's for boys and girls age 6 to 11.

 


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.

 


 

 

The Annual Parochial Church Meeting 2023 was held on Sunday 16th April. The Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2022 are available here. The Churchwardens' Report is available here. The Deanery Synod Report is available here

 

 

 

 


 

 

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