Welcome  to St John's

St John's regular Sunday morning services starts at 10:30 - do please join us in-person in church or online wherever you are.  

You can find St John's about halfway between New Malden and Kingston on Kingston Road (KT3 3RX) - more info on our Find Us page.

Keep in touch with us  by joining our mailing list and each week receive our regular Friday email with news of our Sunday services and news for the coming week. 

If you can't make it into Church at St John's join us online and also  catch up with services and sermons on our YouTube channel  or on our Facebook pages.

2025 Motto Verse

St John’s  Summer 2025 Fun Day - 12 July

NOT LONG TO GO!

Please save the date for our St John's Summer Fun Day when we will need all hands on deck to welcome in our local community.

St John's July ECO Church 

Suggested  Summer Reading challenge for July

AIM: to inform ourselves about something to do with our care for our God’s creation.

•  "How Bad are Bananas" by Mike Berners-Lee . I haven’t read it yet but a quick flip through suggests it is very readable in bite-size sections. 
• "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake . It’s a fascinating book but much ‘heavier’, I have managed two chapters, but that’s ok. You can learn a lot from two chapters. 

Or any other book you read over the summer that informs, inspires or motivates you about our natural world. It would be great to hear your opinion on our Facebook page, whether it’s one chapter or a whole book.  

Peter Greenfield's Ordiantion : Saturday 28st June

King’s Oak Summer Fair : Saturday 21st June, 12 - 4pm 

With thanks to those who came to help out.

Sundays at St John's

Programme for July / August 2025: Causes God wants us to Get Behind Series /  A Summer of Psalms (Joint services with New Malden Baptist Church)

• 6 July:  Mission by Philip Uren
  
• 13 July including Holy Communion (Stephen Kuhrt): Caring for Creation by Dave Pamphilon   
• 20 July:  Sustainable Lifestyle by Roger Parham
  
• 27 July - Psalm 19 by Stephen Kuhrt - AT NMBC
  
• 3 August - Psalm 27 (Preacher: NMBC) - AT ST. JOHN’S
  
• 10 August including Holy Communion (Simon Bramwell)- Psalm 62  by Phil Hutchinson - AT NMBC
  
• 17 August - Psalm 91 (Preacher: NMBC) - AT ST. JOHN’S
• 24 August - Psalm 100 by Jin Sung Hwang - AT NMBC
  
• 31 August - Psalm 145 (Preacher: NMBC) - AT ST. JOHN’S

Our Sunday morning groups for children and young people meet during the service.  There is a creche, as well as an opportunity for those of primary or secondary school age to meet together in separate groups.  There is also a relaxed space (with toys) for parents or carers with babies or toddlers to sit near the rear of the congregation if they wish.

St John's Prayer Meeting -  each Sunday evening in the church lounge at 6.30pm.

Midweek activities

• Monday mornings:  Tots in Tow 

Taking place every Monday (except school breaks)

This is our morning term-time play programme for children (0 to rising 5).   Each week Tots in Tow is open from 10 until 11.30 am on Mondays for parents and carers with their children.  £1.50 for first child, each additional child over one year old £1.00. Refreshments.  

More information by email or phone Dave Pamphilon on 020 8942 5643.

• Monday evenings at 6:50pm:  Keep Fit  

Taking place most Mondays

Gentle exercises in the hall for an hour - no need to be an Olympic athlete to attend! 

Contact Dave Pamphilon for more information 

• Monday evenings at 7:45pm:  Kingston Road Runners

Taking place every Monday

Our (dog-friendly!) running club for anyone who enjoys running with others, whatever your ability. 

Please contact Debbie McCarthy for more information.

• Wednesday evenings at 8:45pm (online): Compline 

Next session:  Wednesday 9th July

This is a quiet liturgical service of night prayer and a reflection led by members of our congregation - 2nd & 4th Wednesdays at 8.45pm on Zoom.  

Ask for the Zoom joining details in advance.  

• Thursdays 2:30-4.00pm:  Young at Heart Exploring Faith

Next session: TBC

Join us for discussion around issues to do with faith. 

For more information, contact Mac McCarthy on macmcarthy@btinternet.com or 020 8942 0208.

• Thursdays 3pm: Abbeyfield Service

Next session: July date on a Thursday TBC

A short service run at Abbeyfield Care Home on a monthly basis. If you are able to help, please contact Dave Pamphilon.  

• Saturdays 10.30am to 12.30:  Street Café :  

Next session: Saturday 11th July then 25 July

we open our doors and forecourt to offer company and refreshment to people in our local area.  All are welcome to come and chat and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and cake, so do please join us on the 

2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month.

Main items of news in the last 3 months:

St John's AGM - Sunday 11 May 

St John’s Annual General Meeting took place on Sunday 11th May, after the Bring & Share Lunch, around 2.15pm. 

For various reports and documents, please refer to the Members Info page 

Jin Sung compelted this year's London Marathon

Easter 2025 at St John's 

Our programme over Easter is as follows:-

• The Walk of Witness: Meet in Jubilee Square, Cock's Crescent (behind Lidl) at 9.50am, and join a procession to the memorial square opposite the Methodist Church for a short service, which will be led by New Malden Baptist Church.
• Palm Sunday 13 April: Jenny Hutchinson on ‘What it means to welcome Jesus as King’, as we mark Palm Sunday, and prepare to celebrate Easter. [Mark 11:1-11]
• Good Friday 18 April (2pm): An hour at the Cross, including the opportunity to receive Holy Communion
• Easter Sunday 20 April: 10:30am. Dave Pamphilon  speaking on ‘The Meaning of the Resurrection’

St John's are ECO-church Bronze Award Winners 

For general information, please visit A Rocha's website.

St John's April ECO Church 

Thank God our Creator for all the wonderful things we have noticed this Spring so far. In April we will focus on birds. When do we first see or hear the first swallow or swift returning from Africa? How many different bird species are there?

Were in your garden? Not sure how they look or sound? Try one of the bird identification apps on your phone, such as merlin.

Don’t forget to post your findings and pictures to share with the rest of the church by adding them to our Facebook page and / or send the picture to Shervin Nejand at snejand@hotmail.com and he will load them.

St John's March ECO Church 

Let's make 'enjoying nature' our priority for this month. Really look around us. Notice the first flowers. The first leaves. Bird songs.Lets's appreciate nature in a new way and allow it to lead our thoughts towards God, our Creator.  

If you take any pictures of  nature that you notice as you walk around this month, and you would like to share them with the rest of the church on face book or the Church website, please add them to our Facebook page and / or send the picture to Shervin Nejand at snejand@hotmail.com and he will load them.

St. John's is an evangelical church within the Church of England.  We aim to be a welcoming place and to serve our local community. The area around our location in Kingston Road, about half way between Kingston and New Malden, has changed a lot since our church was founded as a tin hut mission church in 1885. But inside our 20th century church building, the strength of commitment is as firm as ever.

At St John's we take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously. 
Further information can be found at Safeguarding 

The local primary school - Christ Church Primary School was founded and is partly funded by Christ Church and St John’s

Room Bookings: Some rooms are available for hire - see our page on Room Bookings.  All bookings can be made through the Church Office.

St John's is the hub-church for the New Malden & Kingston CAP Debt Centre 

Click the button and you can learn more and donate to the Centre's work.  
Read CAP's January 2023 Newsletter from Centre Manager Gayle Hardy

 

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