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.

Are you excited about sharing Bible stories with school children? want to have fun with a team? perhaps you’d like to be a Storyteller and join a team of like-minded people from our churches taking Bible Stories into our local schools with ‘Open the book’? We would like to do this regularly, ideally weekly. The presentation takes around 10 minutes but a little extra time is needed for rehearsing, planning and prayer. No lines to learn. All stories and prayers are provided – they just need to be read to the children. A group of us started this at Scott Broadwood before covid struck. When we couldn’t go into school we recorded a couple of the stories and made them available to the children on YouTube. Look at the video below if you’d like to see what we did.   We propose to start with Scott Broadwood – hopefully in the New Year. But depending on how many people come forward, we could expand to include the Weald & possibly Newdigate. Contact Reverend Liz via our contact form for more information or if you would like to help. Post expires at 9:10am on Monday November 18th, 2024

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

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