John and Sarah Gieske

John and Sarah
Sarah grew up in the Wimborne area, John in the USA’s Midwest, and our children in West Africa, though we moved to a different city in spring 2024. Praise God for providing a lovely apartment, and pray that it will become a home in and from which we can be a blessing.
John’s priority is to help translation teams consider, create and distribute audiovisual Scripture content that will help their own people to know Jesus better. After our move, he spent the summer equipping a purpose-built studio in order to offer his technical services for recording and production. This year, he is looking forward to working with up to five teams, recording portions from Genesis in two languages, Matthew in two languages, Acts in one language, and various New Testament portions in three languages. Two teams are also planning to hold Scripture song-writing workshops in early 2025.
Sarah supports our colleagues by proofreading prayer updates and offering informal childminding. She is privileged to educate our three older children at home (Y4, Y2, R) and eager to meet our fourth, due in early January! Sarah is also our primary communicator with you, our prayer and financial support team.
Throughout the Bible, God’s workers are encouraged and commissioned with words like these found in Haggai 2:4: ‘Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the LORD, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the LORD Almighty. Pray that we would be aware of, and strengthened by, His presence to faithfully do the specific work He has given to each of us, so that many more people may come to know Jesus through the Bible.

Link people: Kendal & James Whitehorn kendall.whitehorn@gmail.com

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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