Caterham Walk & Talk

14 April 2025
Knights Garden Centre Woldingham
Woldingham Rd
Woldingham
Caterham
CR3 7LA

We are a new, local group for all ages, for walking & making friends, based in & around Caterham.

Walks will be various levels of difficulty & on different days and times to make it more accessible.

Although this is organised by the church, it is open to everyone and will not be a specifically "religious" event.

Walking is good for wellbeing; for mental and physical health, and socialising and spending time in nature are good for the spirit. We are coming together for all these reasons.

This particular walk is largely flat, with a small incline. It's around 2 miles in a loop from Woldingham Knight's, and ending up back there. Knight's has some parking available. On a scale of croydon road (1) to Waller Lane (10), it is probably a 4.

Dogs are welcome so long as they are not aggressive.

Please bring adequate water for you and your dogs and adequate clothing/suncream etc & any medication you need to stay safe and well.

Easter at St John's 2025

He is Risen! Alleluia

Andrew Garrido on piano - Munch with Music - 2 April 2025

Hear Here April 2025

Please do come along on 3rd April between 9:30am and 11:30am, if you need advice, support, maintenance or batteries for your NHS hearing aids at:

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

Contact us at hearherestjohnscaterham@gmail.com

Munch with Music - April 2025

The next Munch with Music will be held in the church on 2nd April 2025 featuring Andrew Garrido on piano.

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 7th May 2025, with Yohei Nakajima on viola and Miho Sanou on piano.

Forest Church is back in 2025!

All sessions are on Saturdays, 3pm-3.45pm in Caterham School's Pre-prep outdoor area (unless otherwise stated).

26 April: at St John's Church - hedgehog house building session 'Stewardship of creation'
24 May: Spring - prayer mandalas, leaf prayers, blossom painting 'Consider the lilies'
June: No Meeting
19 July: water play - building twig boats 'Calming the storm'
16 August: Harvest/ foraging - Blackberries, bird feeders with apples and picnic 'God's provision'
13 September: Spiders, bugs and tiny overlooked things 'God of the little things'

Wood chippings for you!

After the activities last Saturday (15 March), there is a pile of chippings by the church tower (west end), for you to take away.

Please come and fill yer boots! (a wheelbarrow, car or other similar receptacle may be more practical ?)

If you like to make a donation for chippings removed, please go to Support our ministry and mission.

Thank you ?

Timber!

Under the guidance of experts, our team of temporary lumberjacks/jills using serious bits of kit, tidied up some long standing tree management issues.

Farewell lunch for John Woodhouse

Many thanks again John (and for doing your own camera work).

Bells to Caterham

The Sunday morning service (9 March 2025) at St John the Evangelist commemorated and celebrated the installation of the bells in St John's in 1975. The bells came from St Mary's Lambeth.

During the service:

• two of our ringers, Alan and Noel, read lessons
• there was a talk: Noel made a brief introduction, focusing mainly on our band of ringers and trailing Milica’s talk on the bells themselves; Milica, using extensive research, dove down into the history of St Mary's bells that later became St John's Bells
• there was ringing while communion was being taken
• the vicar, Jaimée, blessed / rededicated the bells and bell ringers from the ringing chamber
• after the service and during the refreshments we rang call changes