Posts from 2024

Barlborough Village Advent Calendar 2024 – join in!

Welcome to the 5th Barlborough Advent Calendar. Can you believe we have been doing this for 5 years! Thank you to all those who have taken part in previous years. There have been some fantastic sights and we hope you will join us again this year. Hopefully the village walking group will use the window trail for their weekly walks again. For those of you new to Barlborough or who have not heard of us; each day a new festive…

Clowne Eco Fair and Plastic Free Harvest Festival

This year parishioners at Clowne Parish Church are celebrating Harvest Festival in a new way – they are encouraging people to go plastic-free! Harvest Festival always used to be plastic free in the past, we want to make it so again. St John the Baptist Church is now aiming for the Eco Church Award. As part of this we are holding an Eco-Fair on Saturday 5th October from 10am to 12noon inside church. There will be a preloved stall, free advice…

Read this week’s newsletter

Click here to read our latest news or read the main content below: Hello from the Rector Dear friends, I hope those of you who watch our services online found it worked ok for you on Youtube last week. You can visit our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@bcjj/live. I am away for the next two Sundays so I’m afraid the next two Sundays’ services will not be livestreamed. I encourage you to watch the Church of England online services which can be found…

Watch our services on YouTube

This week, instead of using Facebook live for our service we are going to try using Youtube instead. To view the livestream you’ll need to go to: https://www.youtube.com/@bcjj/live And the video should appear there. If you have ‘subscribed’ to our YouTube channel, it should be easy to find it. The link will be shared on Facebook but you won’t be able to comment on the video on facebook. If you want to be able to comment as the video is…

Congratulations to our organist

Our organist at St John the Baptist, Clowne, Suzy Blagg has recently passed her exams with the Royal College of Organists. She is now an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and can put the letters ARCO after her name! Congratulations Suzy, we are really proud of you and lucky to have you as our organist!

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