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Please click on the link below to watch an aerial video of the church and listen to our bells.

Drone photography courtesy of https://www.upaerial.co.uk

 

Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website.

Our church is situated in the picturesque village of Lemsford, close to Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City and opposite Brocket Hall. 

We warmly welcome all visitors to our church and we would love you to come to one of our services or events.  We hope that you find what you are looking for in these pages, but if you have any questions and would like to speak to someone about the church, please do contact one of the team members listed in the Who's Who and Contacts page.

We look forward to seeing you.


 




WHAT'S ON IN MARCH AT ST JOHN'S

 


March 2023


Sunday 5th March

8 am - BCP Holy Communion

11 am - All Together service at which we look towards the future of our worship - followed by refreshments in the annexe


Monday 6th March

7 pm Zoom evening natter.  To join in for a chat, please contact Frank Puranik for a link


Tuesday 7th March

10 am Lent Course 2 at St Michael's


Wednesday 8th March

9 am School Assembly service in church - All Welcome

7 pm Lent Course 2 at St John's


Thursday 9th March

 10 am Morning Prayer

Annexe open from 9.30 am until 11 am as a warm place, with refreshments


Sunday 12th March

8am  BCP Holy Communion

11 am Holy Communion - followed by refreshments in the annexe


Monday 13th March

7 pm Zoom evening natter.  To join in for a chat, please contact Frank Puranik for a link


Tuesday 14th March

2.30pm - Friendship Teas

7 pm Lent Course 2 at St John's


Wednesday 15th March

9 am School Assembly service in church - All Welcome

10 am Lent Course 3 at St Michael's


Thursday 16th March

 10 am Morning Prayer



Sunday 19th  March

8am  BCP Morning Prayer

11 am  All Together Mothering Sunday service with Holy Communion - followed by refreshments in the annexe


Monday 20th March

7 pm Zoom evening natter.  To join in for a chat, please contact Frank Puranik for a link


Tuesday 21st March

10 am Lent Course 3 at St Michael's

7 pm Lent Course 2 at St John's


Wednesday 22nd March

9 am School Assembly service in church - All Welcome


Thursday 23rd March

 9 am School Collective Worship - All Welcome

10 am Morning Prayer



Sunday 26th March

8am  BCP Holy Communion

11 am Holy Communion - followed by refreshments in the annexe
 
Thursday 30th March

9 am School Holy Communion service in church - All Welcome




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TURKEY AND SYRIA EARTHQUAKE APPEAL

No one can have missed the news and pictures of the devastation in Turkey and Syria, not helped at all by the fact that the affected area takes in several conflict zones.

 If you'd like to give to this appeal right now you can scan thIS QR code with your smartphone 

                    




 

Thank you

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UKRAINE - A WAY YOU CAN HELP

 

The Red Cross Appeal

Please consider making a donation to the appeal which has been made by the Red Cross.  To see their appeal details, please copy and paste this link into your browser: https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal.  You may donate any amount you wish, and your cash will go towards helping people who are being affected by the crisis, by supplying them with food, water, first aid, medicines, warm clothes and shelter.  Donations may be made direct to the Red Cross appeal, or alternatively, you may care to donate using the QR code below.  The QR code will also be displayed in church.


QR Code



 

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PLEASE CAN YOU HELP

 

WE COULD REALLY DO WITH YOUR FINANCIAL HELP IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME.

PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING IF YOU CAN TO SUPPORT OUR CHURCH AND OUR WORK IN THE COMMUNITY.

EITHER

CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR QUICK DONATION PAGE

CLICK HERE


  OR

ALTERNATIVELY WE CAN NOW RECEIVE DONATIONS VIA TEXT MESSAGE BY TEXTING THE WORD LEMSFORD FOLLOWED BY A SPACE AND THEN AN AMOUNT OF YOUR DONATION, TO 70085.  FOR EXAMPLE, TO GIVE £5 TYPE LEMSFORD 5, TO GIVE £10 TYPE LEMSFORD 10.  THEN SIMPLY SEND YOUR TEXT TO 70085.  TEXTS WILL COST YOUR DONATION AMOUNT PLUS ONE STANDARD RATE MESSAGE.

MANY THANKS

 

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IMPORTANT REQUEST TO REGULAR GIVERS FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

If regular givers would prefer to make their payments by bank transfer, the bank details of the church are:

HSBC Bank.  Sort Code: 40-46-08 A/C No: 51431609

Many thanks

 

 

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PARISH MAGAZINE

The latest edition of the Parish Magazine is now available, and for those who cannot collect a copy from church, it is available to read by clicking  HERE

To see earlier editions of the magazine, please visit the 'Getting Involved' page. 

 

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 FOOD BANK 

We are once again collecting food for the Food Bank.  If you are able to do so, please bring your food donations to church on Sundays and leave them in the box provided in the porch. 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 HOME INSURANCE

If you need to take out, or renew, a home insurance policy, please think of using Ecclesiastical Insurance as they will donate £130 to the church through their Trust 130 Promotion.  All you need to do is to say that the donation is to go to St John's Church, Lemsford.  Find out more at www.ecclesiastical.com/trust130 or call their team on 0800 783 0130 and quote Trust 130.

 

 

2023 PCC meeting dates

 

6th February 2023 at 7.30 pm

13th March 2023 at 7.30 pm

3rd May 2023 at 7.30 pm

10th May 2023 at 7 pm - this will be by Zoom or email

APM and APCM Sunday 28th May 2023 at noon

17th July 2023 at 7.30 pm

10th October 2023 at 7.30 pm

4th December 2023 at 7.30 pm


    

 

 

 

Choir practice every Sunday at 9.30 am 

Bell ringing practice every Monday evening at 7.30 pm

 

 

To email us either click the button below or go to the Who's who and Contacts page and click on the person you would like to contact.  Alternatively please use the form at the bottom of the Who's who and Contacts page.