Mick Wall, Author at St John the Evangelist Church, Shirley, Croydon

2019 Flower Festival pictures

08/11/201901/11/2019 by Mick Wall

Thank you to everyone who has shared with us their photos, in particular SPAN’s Peter Barry and Alex from Picture Partnership.

To see the missing ‘best’ 12 you’ll need to buy the 2020 festival calendar!

PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival
PICTURE SHOWS :- St John’ Church the Evangelist Church, Shirley, 2019 Flower Festival

Saturday 16th November is the date for this years St John’s Primary School fair. This is a great opportunity to join in the fun and games on offer. Why not make a day of it and finish off with seeing Toy Story 4 at St John’s Church.

November Newsletter

29/10/2019 by Mick Wall

Its here, the November newsletter has arrived. Make sure you read it to keep up with all the action at St John’s.

Flower Festival 2020 Calendars

29/10/201929/10/2019 by Mick Wall

A limited edition 2020 Flower Festival Calendar will be available from mid November. To pre-order and secure your copy, call 01689 841040, you can also reserve these online here.

The Calendar will be on sale at our community cinema on 16 November and 14 December, our Aspire gala concert on 23 November and our Christmas Fayre on 30 November. At only £7 each they will make ideal Christmas gifts and you’ll also be helping us to repair of our Church Spire!!

Book Club November book

28/10/2019 by Mick Wall

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.

Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.

For more information on the book club, contact Viv Welch

Sponsor a Shingle

19/10/2019 by Mick Wall

Sponsor a shingle is still active, here is a short video.

Please consider sponsoring a shingle today. We have made it even easier to remember.

Just go to http://www.sponsorashingle.org.uk

Here are a few pictures of the new shingles being fitted.

Film vote results

16/10/201914/10/2019 by Mick Wall

Rocketman is our November film and will be shown on November 16th.

Spire aerial photos

14/10/2019 by Mick Wall

Pictures courtesy of DBR, an unusual look at our spire while works are in progress.

St John’s book group

16/10/201913/10/2019 by Mick Wall

The next book group meeting is 20th October, the book is Clock Dance. Here is a brief synopsis.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.

So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman – and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog – will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things.

A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it’s never too late to change direction, and choose your own path.

The book group meets in the Tamberlin room from 3:30pm.

Film vote closing

12/10/2019 by Mick Wall

Here are the current voting results.

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The vote above will automatically update as new votes are registered.

The vote closes this coming Monday at 9am so there is not much time left to register your vote.

Rocketman is just ahead of Green Book, if this is not the outcome you are looking for please vote now.

I have also made it easier to find the voting option, it right on the menu under Cinema, here is a picture. Underneath the film vote is our cinema feeback form. Please use this to tell us how we can enhance your experience.