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Christmas at St John's
Celebrate Christ's birth with us at our gatherings this December. 8th December Picnic & Carols in the Park 5.30pm, Maynardville Theatre...
St John’s 2025 Stained Glass Window Calendar
We are thrilled to reveal the St John's 2025 calendar, a true celebration of art and spirituality. This exquisite calendar showcases a...
Bursaries for tertiary education available
Did you know that St John’s Parish has an Educational Fund that awards modest bursaries to tertiary level students? If you are currently...
St John's Stained Glass Windows will light up our Market Day on 31st August
Come and join a short tour of our church and learn about our stained glass windows from Laura Milandri during our Market Day on the...
Our birthday month
The celebrations for our 190th birthday have begun already. On Sunday 21st July, our 9.30 morning service was one of thanksgiving, praise...
"Tour de Parish"
Some beautiful photos from Brian and Rae Vermeulen prompted some research into the Parish magazines for written accounts of two cycle...
Gerald Francis remembers
It was good to meet Gerald and Trish Francis at St John’s recently. Now a retired Anglican Minister, he was rekindling assorted memories...
Rea Thusana Home Update
We are pleased to share with you the recent developments at Rea Thusana Home. Over the past few months, we have warmly welcomed five...
How is the heritage project going?
Celebrating our stories – Thank you to the many people who have shared stories and pictures, insights and reflections. Quite a few of...
Diocese of Cape Town Football Festival
On Wednesday 1 May 2024 St Johns Church Wynberg soccer team won the Silver Section of the Diocesan Soccer Festival. We give God the...
Coming Together as Parish
The Parish of St John the Evangelist is made up of six churches: St John's Wynberg, St Luke's Diep River, Christ Church Kenilworth,...
Healing the past in order to move forward
Graham Bresick was very involved in the parish initiative ‘Home is where the Heart is’. His article in the Easter 1992 Parish Profile...
A new season for Hannes & Christine
Today, Hannes and Christine Fehrsen shared words of farewell to St John’s. They had previously written some of their treasured memories...
The Open Door
By Kathy de Smidt The other evening, we attended an open community meeting (advertised on our Church whats’app group) concerning U-turn...
Greetings from Brian Hill
Listen here to Revd. Brian Hill's 2024 video greeting to St John's in our 190th year. Brian came to St John's Church for a year as a new...
Her hands were always busy
Anne Lawton speaks very warmly of her friend, Gwen Mulligan. “She was a most special person. She was married to Alex (a church warden)...
Learning to be a family of families
“The church must be a place to feel at home; but if only we feel at home in our particular church, and all others are either excluded or...
A greater picture of God and his kingdom
By Mary Holgate A big step Easter 1981 was a memorable though difficult weekend for Peter and myself. We had been through some...
Spearhead
Miriam Butcher (née van Reenen) shares her Spearhead experience. “1967 was a very special year for me. It was the year in which churches...
The Human connection
by Wendy Bates My late husband, Malcolm Bates and I married in June 1974. We rented a house in Waterloo Road, close to St John’s Church,...
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