Information

Contacts

The Parish Office is your first port of call for more information about St John's.  This includes information about baptisms, marriages and booking the church hall.  

It is open Tuesday 9:30am to 1pm, Wednesday 9am to 5pm, Thursday 9am to 1pm & Friday 9am to 1:30pm and can be contacted by email and phone - 01582 712776 (outside these hours there is an answerphone).

Finding us

We are located in the south of Harpenden at St John's Road, Harpenden, AL5 1DJ:

 
To find out if you live in the Parish, please use the Church of England's A Church Near You website.

We are within walking distance of Harpenden Railway station; the 321 bus stops nearby.

We ask the able bodied to park on nearby roads in order to keep the space in front of the church free for the less mobile.  If you can't park in St John's Road, we recommend Walkers Road and Queens Road.  There is also a large car park behind the Co-op supermarket.

Magazine

We publish a parish magazine four times a year - in time for Lent, for early summer, for Harvest (end of September) and Christmas. It is distributed to all houses in the parish and the latest four editions are available here:

  

Our mission 

St Johns is part of the Diocese of St Albans, which, in 2011, invited the people, parishes and deaneries, school and chaplaincies in the diocese to explore what it means to live Gods love today. This initiative has three strands:

  • Going deeper into God
  • Transforming communities
  • Making new disciples.

Each parish was encouraged to develop a Mission Action Plan as part of this initiative. For St John's, our Mission is now best represented in our Parish Profile - the document we prepared in early 2021 as part of our preparations to recruit a new Vicar.  This states:

  • Our mission: To welcome everyone warmly and enable all to grow spiritually - nourished and transformed by reverent and relaxed worship and inspired to live and share God's love..
  • Our vision statement: To sustain and develop our vibrant all-age worshipping community, living out our faith in Jesus Christ in all we do, so that more and more people in our parish are touched by His love.

Our Profile also has a wealth of other useful information about us and our plans (and challenges).

Useful documents and forms

  • Our Safeguarding Policy is available from our Safeguarding page; our other Policies are on our Policies page.
  • PCC Members 2022-2023.
  • Papers for our Annual Church Meetings are available on a dedicated page.
  • Electoral Roll documents as: PDF | Word.  After completion, Please complete and return the form to the St Johns Electoral Roll Officer Neil Middleton preferably by Email or alternatively via a Churchwarden or c/o of the Parish Office.
  • Parish Giving: Forms are available on our Parish giving page.
  • Eco Church: Our Bronze Award.

External links

Diocese of St Albans | Living God's Love | Church of England