Events for Holy Week and Easter

There is a varied programme of events around the parish for Holy Week and Easter, allowing people to choose something for them, or to keep Holy Week by attending a service or activity each day.

Church AGM

Our church AGM will take place on Sunday 21st March, following a 10.00am united service. The event is open to all, but only members of the Church Electoral Roll are eligible to stand for election or to vote.

At the AGM we will need to elect a secretary, treasurer and people's warden, three committee members and, if there are resignations from other committee members, further committee members to replace them.

Election forms will be posted at the back of church on Sunday 28th February, and nominations close on Wednesday 17th March.

Please prayerfully consider whom you might nominate, seek their permission to nominate them and enter their names on the forms!

Church Electoral Roll

This year, being a year ending in "0" or "5", all names are removed from the Church electoral roll, and everyone wishing to be included on the roll must fill in an application form. This is to ensure the roll is as accurate as possible (at least every 5 years). It is so important that everyone who considers themselves a member of St John’s joins the roll as it is the only accurate register we have for contacting people and including them in church life.

Please collect application forms from Church from 28th February and fill them in before Wednesday 17th March!

"There is a time for Everything"

So writes the Teacher in Ecclesiastes 3.1. The time has now come for Helen, the kids and me to leave you all and head off to pastures new. We have loved being part of the church family of St John’s and rejoice in all that we have experienced of God together. But we have heard God’s call to leave Wrexham and take up the post of Rector of Eynsford, Farningham and Lullingstone in Rochester Diocese, Kent.

We trust that this will be a good move for St John’s as you examine again what kind of church you are, what kind of vicar you need and as you begin a new phase of life with a new pastor. We trust, too, that it will be a good move for us, as we make our home just 5 miles from where I grew up, amongst a people I know and love.

Eynsford and Farningham are commuter villages (population 2,000 and 1,200 respectively), and Lullingstone is a scattered community based around a castle (population 120). The churches are quite traditional yet looking to minister faithfully and creatively to their communities. We are looking forward to joining them in this mission.

We plan to make Sunday 11th April our last Sunday in Wrexham. It is appropriate I believe to be leaving in this Easter season, with all its hope of new beginnings and resurrection life. My induction (God willing) will be on Tuesday 11th May at 7.30pm. You are of course all invited, although I doubt any of you will be able to attend! You might pray for us that evening?

I do not want my leaving to be a long drawn-out affair. I will endeavour to end well, and leave you in good shape for the inevitable 'interregnum'. In the words of Julian of Norwich, "all will be well".

Rev. Gary Owen