Tearfund

Christian relief and development charity Tearfund

(www.tearfund.org) has for many years received gifts from our special offerings at Harvest and Christmas. This will be concentrated just at Christmas in future. Many church members are also individual supporters.

In common with many charities, Tearfund has faced financial challenges in the past year, and has reluctantly cut back on its campaigning and advocacy work in order to concentrate resources on core activities. Tearfund’s key strategy in tackling poverty in almost all of the 50 countries they work in is Church & Community Transformation (CCT). Grounded in biblical teaching, this envisions and equips churches in practical ways to work with their local communities. We heard inspiring examples of communities engaging with CCT from Serena Dalton from Tearfund’s Church Partnerships Executive who visited St John’s in June, speaking in our morning service and at a Tearfund lunch.

It was one of two charities chosen by the Bovington Military Wives Choir to receive a donation of £1,000 from their concert held at St John’s in March. In the year to mid-September (time of writing), we have sent gifts from church totalling £1,816.78. This included £1,362.19 towards the CCT programme and £454.59 to their Middle East Emergency Appeal.

Thank you so much for all your interest, prayers and support.

If you would like to find out more about Tearfund, click on the links below:
Introduction to Tearfund (short video) here
Tearfund annual report (two-page pdf)
Introduction to Church and Community Transformation (short video) here
Find out more at: tearfund.org

Planning your Visit

Welcome from the Vicar

Let me welcome you to St John’s! I am so delighted you have found our web site. We are a Church family in Wimborne for anyone living, working or studying around this area. Whoever you are, whatever your age, whether you’re an experienced Christian or not, we would love you to join us.

From an intrigued onlooker to the committed follower we are keen that everyone should grow in relationship with God through knowing Jesus. To help us do that our emphasis is on hearing God speak to us by his Holy Spirit through his word, the Bible. Each of us knows that we only grow in a relationship with someone and get to know them when we spend time listening to them and responding and reacting to what they say. So the focus of St John’s is on listening to God’s word, talking to him in prayer and taking up all that he says.

The Church family here at St John’s longs to help anyone who wants to investigate the life of Jesus. On this site you will find people, meetings, talks and events shaped to help you take another step forward in finding out more about God and his love for us in Jesus, and to help you get linked into the church family life.

I do hope I will have the opportunity to meet you personally in the very near future and that you will quickly feel at home at St John’s.

Revd. Peter Breckwoldt