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Christmas at St John's

Stained glass window depicting Christmas.

St John's Christmas Services

Caterham School Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
11 December 2024 at 7pm
St John's Church, Clareville Road

Forest Church - Carols under the Stars
14 December 2024 at 3pm
Caterham pre-prep car park

St John's School Carols
18 December 2024 at 5pm
St John's Church, Clareville Road

St John's Church Carol Service
19 December 2024 at 7:30pm
St John's Church, Clareville Road

Christingle
24 December 2024 at 4pm
St John's Church, Clareville Road

Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve
24 December 2024 at 11:30pm
St John's Church, Clareville Road

Christmas Day Parish Eucharist
25 December 2024 at 10am
St John's Church, Clareville Road

Wishing you a Merry and Peaceful Christmas.


The Trail of the Christmas Bells

Trail of the Christmas Bells poster.

Back by popular demand...Caterham Valley for You free Christmas Trail returns, and it’s better than ever!

Mrs. Claus needs your help to track the explorers heading to the North Pole to meet Santa. Along the way, Santa’s lost his bells, and it’s up to you to find them in our shop windows.

Throw on your Christmas jumper, grab a map, count all the bells, and submit your guess online for a chance to win a prize!

That’s not all - @stjohnscaterham is kindly hosting a free end-of-trail Christmas party, packed with games, treats, music and fun. You might even spot Santa there and tell him you found his bells!

The trail launches Saturday 7th December, from 1pm to 4pm. Can’t make it? No worries—you can download the map from our website and complete the trail at your own pace until 29th December. Stay tuned for more details!


Trinity School Prize-winners - Munch with Music - 4 December 2024

We were very lucky to have prize winning musicians from Trinity School, Croydon, perform for us a varied and intriguing programme:

O Magnum Misterium Morten Lauridsen  Trumpet Ensemble
Impromptu in B minor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Piano
Arabesque no 2 Claude Debussy Piano
Portrait of a trumpet  Sammy Nestico Trumpet and piano
Prelude op 32 no 12 in G sharp minor Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano
The man I love George Gershwin Piano
Red, White and Blues Leonard Bernstein Trumpet and piano
Estompes - Pagodes Claude Debussy Piano
Introduction and Tarantella Pablo de Sarasota Violin and piano

All performances were very well received and greatly appreciated. We wish all the performers well in their future careers (including the aspiring doctor).

A Merry and Peaceful Christmas to you

 


Toys are us

Toys, having been blessed, lie in front of the altar.

St John's contribution to Caterham Corps Salvation Army's collection of toys and games for distribution to those who will best appreciate them.


Hear Here - 5 December 2024

Hear Here poster.
 
A free service for people with NHS hearing aids includes:
 
Basic maintenance - Battery supply - Cleaning and Re-tubing - Trouble-shooting - Advice
 
Please do come along if you need advice, support, maintenance or batteries for your NHS hearing aid, 9:30am to 11:30am.

St John's Church Hall
Clareville Rd
Caterham
CR3 6LA.

Contact us at hearherestjohnscaterham@gmail.com

Game of Chance 2024 - report

Flora and Jaimee at the Lolly Game in hurch Walk.
What chance did the other charities have (including our friends 3rd Caterham St John's Scouts) when our idea for fund raising had 'em licked.
 
Our pitch this year was right down the car park end, next to the Photo-Me machine, which was quite flashy. Flora and Jaimee demonstrated the fundamentals of the lolly game and were rewarded with ... lollies.
 
A very late winner took one of the teddies home, the other teddy seemed sad to me, having featured not only this year, but last as well. Maybe next year.
 
Big thanks to Julie who organised, and to all the volunteers who got lolly for lollies.

Munch with Music - December 2024

Munch with Music December 2024 poster, 4 December 2024, 12:15pm.

The next Munch with Music will be held in the church on 4th December 2024 featuring Music from Trinity School.

You are invited to bring your own ‘Munch’.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Coffee, tea and biscuits from 12:15pm, with the performance starting at 12:45pm and lasting about 45 minutes.

The following Munch will be on 5th February 2025, with Christopher Sayles on piano.


Advent Compline 2024

Candles set in a wreath.

Jaimee wiil be leading Compline (Night Prayer), each Tuesday at 6pm in the Church during Advent (3rd, 10th and 17th December).
 
It will be a service of quietness and reflection.

Christmas is coming! Singers and instrumentalists wanted

Carol singers

Christmas is coming! Singers and instrumentalists wanted to sing carols in the centre of Caterham Valley shopping centre Sat Dec 7 at 2 and 3 p.m. finishing by 4 p.m.

Contact johnwoodhousecat(at)gmail.com.

Also for our festival of Nine lessons and carols at St John the Evangelist Clareville Road Caterham Valley at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday Dec 19.

Rehearsals start after service on Nov 17 (not Dec 😎).


Game of Chance 2024

Vicar with Rosie their dog in Church Walk.

On Saturday 30th November, St. John’s Church will be joining other charities in Church Walk to run a Game of Chance, 11am to 4pm.

We will be doing the same as last year - lollies in a table. Everyone keeps their lolly, but if it has a coloured stick then they win a prize as well.

Later that day, the Christmas Lights will be switched on.

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