Patronal Festival

At St John's Seven Kings we have just enjoyed a very special Patronal Festival which included a well attended and very enjoyable Barn Dance, an excellent sermon on telling your story from Rev. Chris Wragg (a former member of St John's, who is now Vicar at All Saint's Squirrels Heath), a presentation to our Reader Jean Richards on her 70th birthday, a Confirmation Service for our cluster of Anglican churches led in inimitable style, with Olympic and Paralympic imagery, by the Bishop of Barking, a combined choir from the four cluster churches, and original songs written by our own Lester Amann. Our congratulations to all those, from the four churches, who were confirmed tonight by Bishop David.

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Curtis Mayfield - Back To Living Again.

Upcoming events and services

The All-Age Harvest Festival at St John's Seven Kings is this coming Sunday 16th September at 10.00am. We are collecting Harvest goods to donate to the Redbridge Food Bank. After the service we will have a bring & share Harvest lunch. In the service we will be thinking about the third of the Transforming Presence priorities - serving with accountability.

  

We have our 50/50 Auction on Saturday 22nd September. All items are included in the auction on the basis that 50% of the sale price is kept by the seller and 50% goes to the Church. Viewing begins at 10.00am on 22nd and the auction starts at 12 noon. Refreshments will be available. This is always a popular local event and a good fundraiser for the church.

  

We will then be celebrating our Patronal Festival on the weekend of 6th and 7th October. We have a Barn Dance on Saturday 6th from 7.30pm. Tickets are £8 for adults, £6 for under 12s. All are welcome. Our Patronal Festival service will be at 10.00am on Sunday 7th and the preacher will be Rev. Chris Wragg, Vicar of All Saints Squirrels Heath, who is a past member of the congregation at St John's. In the evening, at 6.30pm, we will host a Confirmation Service at which 8 candidates (from St Johns, St Paul's Goodmayes, All Saints Goodmayes and St Peter's Aldborough Hatch) will be confirmed by the Rt. Revd. David Hawkins, Bishop of Barking.

  

I am also involved, with other churches in the Redbridge deanery, in organising a series of arts events that will be part of this year's Woodford Festival (6th - 14th October). These include: art exhibition, Big Draw event, classical & choral concerts, Jazzathon, Poetry event, Street Pastors patrol, Woodford Proms, Youth Festival and various special services (including Jazz, Pets, and visual arts). 

 

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Neil Young - Harvest Moon.