On Sunday 14th June, we will thank God for all the gifts he has given us in the past years and ask for inspiration to use them for his glory in the year to come.

As usual with our previous Gift Sundays, we will look ahead at the financial challenges set before us and our continued efforts to financially support our Young People's Ministry Fund. We will also be thanking and hearing from some of the many volunteers who give of their time for the life of St. John's and why they enjoy helping their church as must as they do.

This Sunday is one that I hope will encourage us and help us to keep going as we continue to proclaim the Good News in this corner of God's world. I also hope it will enable us to think afresh, both as individuals and as a community, about others ways we might serve God and God's people in Merrow.

Above all, it is a Sunday that gives me, as Rector, a chance to thank everyone at St. John's for all that you do to continue to make this church a place for the whole community to know God's love, grow in faith and live in hope.

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