St John’s is a community which exists for two basic reasons: to worship God and to serve our area. We gather to pray and worship, to draw near to God that God might polish the tarnish off our fragile lives and restore his image in us. The congregation is very varied and mixed, so you’ll fit in just fine!

We’re keen that people should feel that it’s a safe space to come and see - we promise we won’t jump on you and make you join something! And we don’t claim to have all the answers - but in our faith we’ve found a framework and friendship with God which is beginning to make sense of life as we experience it. Christians talk about God as a mystery - not a puzzle to be solved, but a relationship to be entered into and an experience to be lived.

We have a feeling that people have often got the wrong idea about God, and our prayer for all who come into contact with St John’s is quite simple: we want people to forget the god they don’t believe in and discover the God who believes in them.

Our aim is to create an open, “safe” community where people are encouraged to meet God and respond in appropriate ways. We want to foster mature disciples who live out their faith day to day.

Lots of different things flow from that: