Who We Are

 Our former Rector and Priest-in-charge was Revd. Kate Lovesey.

She has now retired from this Benefice.

  Kate joined us in May 2019, before     which she was our Interim Minister   during an interregnum. Her ministry   was shared with St Peter's Church,   Aldborough Hatch, IG2 7QH, where Kate had been their Priest-in charge for over seven years.

From January 2021, Kate has been the Rector of the Aldborough Benefice ( St John's and St Peter's).  

Kate is pictured here with Rt. Revd. Peter Hill our former Bishop of Barking. 

                                                                                                        Church Wardens:                                                              

                                         Bob Keenan
                                     

                            Heath Springer

Our two wardens are long-standing members of the congregation and work together with the daily running of St John's. Their responsibilities are wide and varied and can be contacted via the church office: 020 8598 1536                                 

Parochial Church Council: Church wardens, Tony Wright (treasurer),  Charity Anyika, Carmen Cameron, Jim Gough, Keziah Jimoh (Licensed Lay Minister), Janet Keenan, Jade Springer.  

This group of church members were elected at our Annual Church Meeting and serve for a term of three years. They meet regularly to discuss matters around the church; its maintenance and witness.

Administrator: Maureen Patterson

Following the arrival of Covid, our monthly printed publication called Pilgrimage was discontinued in April 2020.
It was replaced by an on-line digital news-sheet called The Aldborough edited by Jade Springer. click here to email

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 Keziah Jimoh was licensed at Chelmsford Cathedral, as our Lay Leader on 10th October 2020.

                                                                               Our Benefice 
                                                                                         

Have you ever had a guided tour of HMS Victory in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard? If so, the Guide may have told you that not one single piece of wood, or nail has existed from the ship that fought at Trafalgar. She has been re-fitted twice whilst in service and, since becoming a tourist attraction, has been the subject of many renovation projects. The result is that what we see now is not, in fact, the original Victory.

Back in the nineties, Volkswagen launched its latest version of the Golf model. They   realised that this model did not have one single item that could be found in the first version released decades before. Their advertising slogan was: “The new Golf - still the car it always was, but not the car it used to be”.

 Churches are like that. Congregations and church people gradually change, and so do the   church buildings themselves. But the essence of the ongoing mission remains the same and incoming folk absorb the history of the church via its people. St Peter’s and St John’s are changing from what they used to be.

 We remain individual churches and individual parishes within the new Benefice. Still the churches we always were, but not the churches we used to be.