Pews News - St John`s Redhill

Tickets for the classical music concert at the end of April are now on
sale! We have lots of publicity material to distribute for the first of this
concert, which is entitled the Bibby Duo and Friends: Saturday 25th
April 6.00pm-8.00pm. Tickets are available after 10.30am services from
the back of the church from Jenny, priced £10 for adults and £1 for
under-18s. Please buy a ticket and sign up to take a leaflet to your
school, workplace, community group, local library/shop or deliver them
down your street. We have about 170 tickets to sell and this event has
potential not only to be a huge success but in doing so reach a vastly
wider audience than just our congregation. Please think about how you
can help to promote this and other concerts, which will be held in June
and July. The performers for the Bibby Duo and Friends concert are
internationally-acclaimed pianists Nicola and Alexandra Bibby, Sussex
musician and opera singer Jane Haughton (mezzo soprano) and our own
Simon Edge-Partington (oboe) who performs with the English Arts
Ensemble and organises concerts for charities. The programme contains
many delights for all, including the Carnival of the Animals.
Refreshments will be available at the interval.
Please also think about any items you could donate for sale, or with
a percentage of the proceeds given to the fundraising appeal, at the
auction of fine arts and promises, on Saturday 3rd October.
The auction will be run by Christopher Claxton Stevens (contact 020
8673 7071, c.claxtonstevens@normanadams.com) who has offered to
use his long expertise in the antiques trade to run the sale, and would
welcome hearing from anyone who would like to contribute items,
whether as gifts or on a percentage commission basis. These might
include antique or contemporary furniture, porcelain, pottery and glass,
pictures, books, silver and plate, jewellery, clocks, metalwork, or
collectors’ items. Part of the auction will also allow people to donate their
talents, services and promises. Maybe you could promise to do an
afternoon's gardening, an evening's singing, or donate a meal for two at
a restaurant.
Last, but no means least, please continue to use EasyFundraising for
all your online purchases and searches. Find our cause by typing in
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ and searching for 'St John's
new building appeal'.
Pews News
St John the Evangelist
Church Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 6QA
Registered Charity No. 1135368
Vicar: vacant
Church Wardens:
Janet Scott 01737 769336 Mike Genge 01737 770891
www.stjohnsredhill.org.uk
8th March
3rd Sunday of Lent
Services and Readings
8.00am
BCP Holy Communion
10.30am
Holy Communion
Readings
Hymns
5.30pm
Evensong
Readings
Hymns
Psalm
Exodus 20.1-17
John 2.13-22
634, 765, 541, 500
Exodus 5.1 – 6.1
Philippians 3.4b-14
422, 715, 481, 229
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Today’s anthems are “If ye love me” by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), text
from John 14, and “View me Lord” by Richard H Lloyd (b. 1933), text by
Thomas Campion (1567-1620).
Traidcraft Real Easter Eggs are available again this year. Please
complete an order form in the latest Spring catalogue, which is available
on the Traidcraft stall at the back of the church.
Today’s voluntaries are (at 10.30am) Prelude and Fugue in E minor
BWV555 by J S Bach (1685-1750) and (at 5.30pm) Trumpet Tune by
Henry Purcell (1659-95).
Church Maintenance Day - Saturday 28th March: This is the
target date and the time will be 9.00am to 12.30pm. There can be some
flexibility, however - it will be possible to pick a task and nominate your
own date and time near the above. Let's get things looking good for
Easter! Sign-up sheets will appear in due course. Feel free to talk to
Ted Eilley, eilley@btinternet.com, 01737 765657.
Junior Church: The topic for the St John’s school group (5-11 years) is
“Jesus and the Temple” (John 2.13-22) and for the Vestry group (2½-5
years) “A Beautiful Pearl”.
Salt n Pepper meets today for those in school years 7-11. All are very
welcome to join us at 10.30am. Please note the new venue of St John’s
School. Any questions please contact Claire or Richard French.
The next meeting of Afta8z will be on Monday 9th March, 8.00pm at
71 Chart Lane, Reigate, for week 3 of the Lent Course. All in school
years 10-13 welcome.
The next dates for A Good Yarn are Mondays 9th and 23rd March,
2.00pm-4.30pm and 7.30pm-10.00pm. All welcome, 6 Beaumonts RH1
5DT. Heather Powell 01293 774588 or 07710 447478.
Mothering Sunday Posies: On Saturday 14th March, starting at
10.00am, we will be making posies for Mothering Sunday. Everyone is
welcome to come along and help; many hands make light work.
Contributions of greenery will be gratefully received and can be left in
the church porch from Friday 13th March.
The Junior Choir will be holding another bake sale next Sunday,
15th March. Money is being raised to help pay for the RSCM summer
Choral course in Bath. Choristers would be most grateful for your
support.
The Church Electoral Roll has to be revised before the Annual
Parochial Church Meeting (APCM). This year you need take no action if
you are already on the Roll. However, if you are not on the Electoral Roll
and wish to attend the APCM and take part in its proceedings, your
name must be entered on the Roll by 6th April. Application forms for
enrolment are available at the back of the church. Please let me have
completed forms by 23rd March. No names can be added to the Roll
after 6th April until the close of the APCM. Peter Siggs.
Last Call for visit to Pilsdon Community, West Malling, Kent on
Saturday 14th March. Christians Aware is organising a trip to visit The
Pilsdon at Malling Community on Saturday 14th March. It is a
Christian-based community with its ideals and ethos taken from the
Pilsdon Community in Dorset. This visit will allow us to get an insight
into the works of the community. If you are interested in joining the
visit, please speak to Sarah Walters, and if enough people want to go, a
minibus can be organised for transport. We would need to leave St.
John's at 10.30am and we would be back at about 6.30pm. Please
contact Sarah Walters on 01737 217253 or email
sarah@waltersfamily.org
The Junior Church Good Friday workshop will be held on Friday 3rd
April from10.00am to 12.00noon, gathering at the church. There will be
plenty of different activities for family and friends. There will be sign up
sheets at the back of the Church from next Sunday:
Hand Bells, Arts and Crafts inside the church, an Easter Walk, making
an outdoor Easter Garden.
There will also be tea, coffee and Hot Cross Buns. We look forward to
seeing you there.
Church Magazine: The March magazine is available at the back of the
church. Please note that the deadline for the April issue of the magazine
is 22nd March, as the publication date will be 29th March. You can send
written contributions by email to jo@commsbiz.com at any time up to,
and including, 22nd March - the sooner the better! You don't have to
write anything - if you prefer, editor Jo Josh would be very happy to take
down your ideas in a telephone or face-to-face interview on 01737
270220.
Please send any contributions for Pews News to Anne Rueff at
a.rueff@ntlworld.com or phone on 762534, by 8.00pm on Wednesdays.