Friday 21st December |
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| 8pm | Service of Nine Lessons and Carols |
Sunday 23rd December |
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| 10am | Shared Eucharist Service and Nativity Play |
Monday 24th December |
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| 2pm | Crib Service |
| 4pm | Crib Service |
| 8pm | Bethlehem Christmas |
| 11.30pm | Midnight Mass and Blessing of the Crib |
Tuesday 25th DecemberChristmas Day |
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| 10am | Christmas Day Eucharist with Carols |
Sunday 6th January 2019Epiphany |
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| 9:30am | Sung Eucharist |
| 11:15am | Christingle Family Service |
| 6pm | Healing Eucharist |
| 7:30pm | Recharge Service |
Our monthly charity for December is the Children’s Society. We will be collecting donations for them after the morning services on Sunday.
The Children’s Society has helped change children’s stories for over a century. Through their direct practice, policy work and campaigning, they fight childhood poverty, harm and neglect.
Stalls include:
Lunches served from 12 noon. Licensed.
Our monthly charity for November is the Leprosy Mission. We have been and will be collecting donations for them after the morning services on Sunday.
[A]n international Christian development organisation that diagnoses, treats and offers specialist care, including reconstructive surgery, to leprosy patients. Our aim is to transform and empower the lives of people affected by leprosy.
Next Sunday we will be marking the Armistice Day Centenary.
Our rector, Chris Davies, will be leading a service of remembrance on King’s Green in Loughton, beginning at 12:30pm.
In the evening at 6pm we will be holding an Armistice Centenary Service at St John’s. Join us for anthems, songs and readings to celebrate the centenary of the signing of the armistice. The concert will end with our award-winning bell-ringers tolling for the centenary.
Please note that our 11:15am Family Communion will not be held. Instead we will have family activities in advance of the parade to King’s Green for the remembrance service there.
The 8am and 9:30am services will be held as normal.
Please support these acts of remembrance in this centenary year.
Come and join us for a presentation by Debbie Coupland, in St John’s Church, Loughton at 8.00pm on Thursday 8th November in remembrance of the centenary of the signing of the Armistice, as a prelude to peace in 1918. Debbie’s presentation will include details of the actions of Private Sidney Godley VC who rests within Loughton Cemetery and our other local fallen heroes. Debbie will review the war, it’s final stages and the consequences for world peace. She has an abundance of forensic detail, born of a lifelong passion for the War to end all Wars. Do come for a fascinating insight into the world of our forefathers. The retiring collection will be in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund.
Debbie has been a keen student of the First World War since childhood. She decided not to go to university, as expected, but instead, take an Officers Commission in the Army. In due course, as a lieutenant (in the Women’s Royal Army Corps) she was posted to Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, linked inextricably with the most famous memorial to the missing (72,195) of the battle of the Somme.
Having left the Army to bring up a her family, she completed a University degree in Military History, as a mature student. She left her job within the Civil Service, recruiting men and women to serve as Officers in the Army, to create Great War Tours, providing personal escorted Great War Battlefield experiences.
Fireworks will be taking place on Saturday 3rd November from 6pm to 9pm, and we are hoping to sell as many tickets as possible beforehand to help with queueing and congestion on the night.
Tickets can be ordered by calling 07383 489556 and bought from the church each Sunday after our family service 12.30pm to 1.30pm from Sunday 7th October
Tickets will also be on sale inside St John’s Church at the following times:
Pricing remains the same as the last few years, ie £15 family (2 adults and up to 3 children), £6 adult, £3 child, and we would ask that you bring the correct money with you as it really helps our volunteers!
There will be a Choral High Mass at the 9.30am service this Sunday, 14th October. Pieces will include the Gounod Mass in C and pieces by Saint-Saëns and Fauré.
Please do come along to support St John’s Singers.
Our monthly charity for September is the Spark!. We will be collecting donations for them after the morning services on Sunday.
[We seek] a society in which people are work ready, mobile and equipped to make a significant difference to the economy, their lives and community.
We will work with education and business to prepare people for working life and enhance their employability through practical, accredited and inspiring work-related experiences.
With Sam joining us we will be able to offer more services, so we are now offering morning and evening prayer.
The Church of England tells us that:
As Christians we believe the full purpose of our lives is to praise God. As we do so we begin to recognize more and more that everything comes from God and to feel even more thankful and full of praise.
Come along and share in this wonderful tradition.