Plant, Cake & Toy Sale – 9th May
We are looking for people who might be able to donate items please for plant, toy and cake stall for Christian Aid. Sunday 9th May in the St John’s Church Garden, 11am to 1pm. Cakes can be home made with ingredients clearly displayed or shop bought. Thank you for...
Daily Update #255
9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there...
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Daily Update #254
“There is a time for everything, andA season for every activity under heaven:A time to be born and a time to die,A time to plant and a time to uproot,A time to kill and a time to heal,A time to tear down and a time to build,A time to...
Daily Update #253
Ecclesiastes 2:18-26 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I...
Daily Update #252
“Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved” Winnie the Pooh Today’s reading: 12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?13 I saw that...
Daily Update #251
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil,and this was my reward for all my toil. Ecc 2:10 One of my all time favourite films is John Boorman’s reworking of the Arthur legend, Excalibur. It is an old film now, 1981,...
Daily Update #250
Today’s Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun;...
St. John’s APCM
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting will take place on Thursday 15th April 2021 at 7.30pm via Zoom. The link will be sent to the Church mailing by Wednesday. If you have not received it, please email admin@stjohnssouthbourne.com....
Daily Update #249
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11Life is meaningful! Today we depart from the lectionary after more than a year and start to delve into the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. It feels a bit like going out of the frying pan and into the fire! This oft-ignored book, nestling in the middle of...