The Parish of Langdon Hills

Ron and Jean Gough  have undertaken to organise our collecting again this year. Envelopes will be available in both churches on Sunday May 1st, May 8th and May 15th to distribute to our parish from the 16th May.

Sadly although Christian Aid and others have made great contributions to the relief of poverty, and many have benefited from our efforts, a lot of the problems have not improved in the last twelve months and our help is still required.

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Come and join us in celebration of the new childcare services extension at St John’s Church and our 20th year serving the local community of Langdon Hills.  We will be holding the celebration on Saturday 11th June from 2.00pm to 5.00pm.

Celebration Flyer

This children’s club meets at the Methodist Church, Emanuel Road, on the last Thursday of each month. The age range is 5-13. This has broadened slightly as those starting secondary school continue to come, arriving later and leaving later than the others. Craft activities, games and Bible teaching form the basis of the enjoyable sessions. This is a joint Methodist/Anglican venture. The next two sessions will be on 26th May and 30th June. If you know of any young people you think might enjoy this please let them know!

Reflecting back upon our Easter experience, for those of you who gave up chocolate or some other goody for Lent it’s probably not a moment to soon. For those of you who took something on, perhaps it might be worth while to continue, but what ever your decision was congratulations to you all, you have made it! And as we look at the Easter story itself, there is an element that Easter is the finish line, when Jesus accomplished all that he came to do. But is that the whole story, or is there more to it than meets the eye.

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For those of you who may have missed the parish AGM and in particular the Treasurer’s report, a PDF version of the report can viewed by clicking the link below.

Treasurer’s Report to APCM – 2011

There are some photos from inside the new St John’s extension on our Flickr page (will open in new window).

A page outlining the history of our two churches has now been added to the website – see History.

Thanks to Tony Dunhill for this contribution.

Click here for the handouts for each week of the SHAPE course, which ran on Thursday evenings at St John’s during Lent. Materials from weeks 1-6 are now available. (See this page for details of the course.)

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2011 programmes for the Mens group and the Ladies group are now available.

We have set up an E-mail group for mens and ladies events. Everyone on the list will be informed of forthcoming events via e-mail. If you are not already receiving e-mails from the St John’s and St Mary’s groups and would like your email added to the list, please email hurleyjuk (at) gmail.com ( Jill Hurley) or hurleysuk (at) gmail.com (Steve Hurley).

Anyone who has passed down Forest Glade since last summer will have noticed continual progress on the extension at St. John’s. The new building is due to be completed during March 2011, and details of events to mark the opening will be announced shortly.

The project as a whole will provide:

• two additional secure and purpose-built childcare spaces for Pre-school and Out-of-School Clubs with kitchen, laundry and toilet facilities.
• a chapel in the existing building offering spiritual space throughout the week (completed during summer 2011).
• additional offices and meeting room.
• more space in the existing building for other church and community activities.

The project has been supported by a substantial Sure Start Grant through Essex County Council, together with grants from Veolia and the All Churches Trust.

[Click here for a larger version of these drawings which will open in a new window]

Do you wish…

• You could discover your gifts;
• You could live a more joyful and fruitful Christian life;
• You could serve God more fully;
• You could become the person God has designed you to be?

Take part in exploring “Your SHAPE for God’s Service”!

What will it involve?
“Your SHAPE for God’s Service” involves six meetings in a small informal group. It will be enjoyable and interesting!
We will help each other to explore our unique God-given “SHAPE,” and how we can use it in his service.
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06 / 02 / 11 Morning Communion – Steven Poss (9.3mb)

20 / 02 / 11 Morning Communion – Steve Spencer (11.8mb)

27 / 02 /11 Morning Communion – Kennedy Rath (11.5mb)