June is our Festival month, and festival is a time when we both celebrate the community of St John’s and extend our arms into the tangle of communities that makes up Hillingdon. So June is a good month to consider the broad subject of community.

We have a hunch that this is an opportunity to celebrate what is good about our communal life rather than to beat ourselves up over our collective inadequacies. Though, once we look more closely into the joyous muddle that we call community, we cannot fail to be challenged.  Read full article »

Festival 09 begins on Friday 12th June with the biannual Flower Festival.

Behind the scenes flower arrangers are arranging themselves, murder mystery actors are rehearsing their lines, mucisians of all shapes and sizes are practising, and in kitchens across Hillingdon cakes are being baked. The full Festival 09 programme is available in various places.  Read full article »

Hopefully the festival programmes will have now been received. We would love to get these delivered around the parish as quickly as possible- please speak to Louise if you can take bundle ( or two!).

Things needed for the Festival:

• 450g yoghurt pots to Brenda Thomas

• white pizza bases to Kath Harrison

• scraps of brown fabric (furry or otherwise) to Christine Bartlett ( for a giant teddy bear collage)

• offers of cakes for the cake stall on June 13th to Pauline Andrews

• cuttings and small plants  for the plant stall

• offers of help to deliver brochures  to Louise

• bottles for the bottle tombola to Liz Sands

Many thanks!  Read full article »

St John's seven 'Commissioned Ministers' were re-commissioned on Wednesday 21st Jan at a special service in Southall. The process of 'commissioning' links these seven into a support structure within the wider family the 'Willesden Area' churches which enables them meet people who do similar things in other churches.  Read full article »