On a beautifully sunny afternoon, St John's held a Mother's Day tea for the local community, an opportunity to bless mothers. Donkeys Buffy and Solo were outside, their panniers loaded with posies of flowers. The church filled up with families, enjoying a cup of tea and a scone or homemade cake. There were crafts for the children who made gifts or cards to give to their mum. Read more...
St John’s Mothers’ Union have filled 100 shoeboxes with toys, gloves and hats, stationery and hygiene items. With the help of donations from St John’s congregation to pay for the delivery costs, the boxes will be distributed by Samaritan’s Purse, through their "Operation Christmas Child". The boxes were brought into church and were blessed by Revd John Dudley. They will go to children in countries around the world for whom this could well be their only Christmas present. Read more...
St John’s Church was filled with the sound of brass on Friday 16th September 2016 when it hosted a brass band concert featuring the Tadley Band, leader Stewart Lewins. The programme included selections from Cabaret, Les Miserables, Burt Bacharach and Elvis Presley, with other favourites from Walt Disney and Richard Rodgers, and the Finale to Sullivan’s Pineapple Poll. There was a memorable piece which blended Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” with Bach’s “Air on a G string”, an unlikely combination but one which the band proved worked very well. Read more...
We were treated to a very special evening of music at St John’s Spring Concert on 23rd April. It featured the “Burnished Brass” quintet and the mezzo-soprano Caroline Carragher, with accompaniment from Len David on piano and pipe organ. Read more...
The Bishop of Reading is pleased to announce the appointment of the Rev Penny Cuthbert, currently Assistant Curate in the Parish of Reading St. Agnes with St. Paul and St. Barnabas, to be the Transition Minister for St John Caversham within the parish of Caversham Thameside and Mapledurham. Read more...
The weather was appropriately chilly for St John's Christmas Fair, held on Saturday 21st November 2015, but fair-goers got a warm welcome from the stall holders, and the Caversham Community Cafe was on hand to provide a cup of tea or coffee. Read more...
Christmas came early at St John’s, when 102 boxes of gifts were brought into church on 1st November for our annual “Shoe Box Sunday”. Members of the congregation had filled the boxes with toys, sweets, knitted hats and gloves and items to help with hygiene and education. The Rev Rachel Ross Smith blessed the boxes, which will go to The Samaritan’s Purse charity to be distributed through “Operation Christmas Child” to children across the world who otherwise may not receive a present. Read more...
