St John's Methodist Church

A Message from our Minister, Revd Peter Taylor:

Hello! I am Rev. Pete and I seek to work with the Church members here to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in the Church and the community, in relevant and authentic ways.
I grew up in the East Midlands. My wife Sam is a part-time Minister serving another area of the Borders Mission Circuit as a Deacon. For 11 years I worked in retail for Burtons, most years spent in management in stores across the Midlands. Then for 3 years I worked as a training Assessor with a charity called Rathbone helping young people gain work placements. Sam and I did two short term mission trips with a Christian charity and then felt God’s call to move, somewhere in Europe. We became Methodist Mission Partners, and lived and worked with the Methodist Church in Bulgaria for nearly 4 years. Feeling prompted by God, we returned to the UK to candidate and train for ministry. After 3 years at Queens College for Ecumenical theological education, we went to Barry, South Wales in our first appointments for 7 years. We moved to Sutton in Ashfield in 2017, to work within the Borders Mission Circuit (Methodist area) See the website www.bordersmissioncircuit.org.uk
Sam and I have two children, Rose and Matthew, who complete Team Taylor! In my spare time I enjoy walking, meeting people and enjoy football, especially watching Derby County! I think St. John’s Methodist Church is a good place and space in this town for all.
Feel free to contact me or the church members if you want to know more about what we are about.
God the 3 in 1 be with you, Rev. Peter Taylor.
Peter.Taylor@methodist.org.uk 01623 554259

Welcome to our Church

"We are united by the love of Jesus. We will support one another in love and through worship and service work together to share the good news of Jesus with everyone."

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THIS WEEK'S GEM:

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BIBLE STUDY GROUP
A new sub page has been added for the Bible Study Group. Have a look at it.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS/APPEALS:

THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN US
If you have any items eg socks, jumpers, sleeping bags, coats, toiletries, towels which you think may be useful for either the Beacon Project or Framework please speak to Ann Cope who is co-ordinating our appeal and will arrange to collect items and deliver them to either of these projects. Please contact Ann on 01623 554157. Thank you.

FOOD BANK – Thank you for your continued donations to this
project. Could we please make a request that you place in the box only items listed n the box. In recent weeks we have had donations of fresh fruit and vegetables which are not suitable for the food bank. The way the system works is that items we collect on a Sunday are taken to the food bank the following Friday but may not be used until the following week as the volunteers have already made up the bags for any given week before we arrive. This means that they cannot use items that are fresh nor can they give out items which are past their use by date – this food is then wasted.

Postage stamps -Bob will continue to sell stamps as his contribution for Church Anniversary/ Jubilee celebrations. So far, that little 10% has raised £600 for St John’s. However, it is getting difficult to buy stamps in the medium quantities needed – for instance, rolls of stamps now cost £5,600 because 10,000 is the minimum order.

Leprosy Mission Stamps and postcards
Up to end of July this year, St John’s has sent over 30kg weight used postage stamps to the Leprosy Mission who sell the stamps on to international stamp dealers plus some postcards. That's more than half a hundredweight in 'old' money. Please help. Snip or tear your stamps from correspondence and give them to Mary Aldous or Bob Dawson. Please don’t try to soak stamps off paper and don’t damage them as we cannot send those. The Mission can also use children’s unwanted stamp collections, those stamps you found at the back of the drawer, adult accumulations, presentation packs, covers etc. All countries, not just Britain. They are sorted by SJ into various categories and the charity sells them by weight to dealers according to the contents of sorted packs, eg everyday British 'Machin' stamps are less value than commemorative, and older British and foreign fetch more than either - but all have a value for the Charity.
Also, any postcards. Used or unused from anywhere in the world, from Mansfield to Mancunia and even the very exotic places like Skeggy, Blackpool and Wormwood Scrubs. Unfortunately, this is postcards only, not old Christmas or Birthday cards (sorry).

UPDATE: We have just been given several kg of stamps by Maureen and Terry from Belper who were visiting the SJ website. Thank you Maureen and Terry.

Do have a look at our Gallery page. There are many interesting and exciting old and new snaps.

Grateful thanks to all those who have supplied illustrations, especially Alan Herberts and Martyn Walker. Alan and Martyn are our official site photographers - big thank you to them - but we're grateful for pictures from any sources.

This website is kept as up to date as possible so new information and pictures go up regularly.

Picture of the Week

Another very happy and busy Messy Church

Above, previous pictures of the week -

Ploughmans

Sorting for the Leprosy Mission. Keep 'em coming!

Praise and Fellowship