John and Sarah Gieske

Gieskes 2023
Sarah grew up in the Wimborne area, John in the USA’s Midwest, and our children in West Africa. We are currently on ‘home assignment’ visiting family, friends and churches in the USA and the UK.
Followers of Jesus are ‘people of the Book’ but many engage best with this Book by hearing it, singing it or seeing it. (How about you?) John helps translation teams think through, create and distribute what they believe will best help their own people hear and understand God’s word.

Examples of this year’s work include a film dubbing (God’s Story), a Bible overview series (audio), a radio theatre piece, and a dramatised recording of Exodus with songs.
Sarah educates our three children at home. As a ‘language geek’, Sarah also enjoys proof-checking colleagues’ newsletters and putting together our own news and prayer updates.
Hebrews 11:8-16 may help you pray for us. Pray for refreshment during these months of travelling and speaking and fellowship. Pray that lessons from our first decade here would help us to establish good relationships and family rhythms as we ‘pitch our tents’ in a new city from spring 2024. Most of all, pray that God’s word would be heard and He would draw many people to faith and to lives that are worthy of our faithful God.
Link people: Kendal & James Whitehorn kendall.whitehorn@gmail.com

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