Our Mission

Our mission at St. John's is primarily to share our Christian faith, our spiritural life, through our services and fellowship with all people. We also feel that St. Johns has many other things to offer. Our social and fund raising events provide the opportunity to enjoy companionship whilst helping to preserve the fabric of our lovely building and frequently supporting a variety of good causes both at home and abroad.

DURING 2006, several members of St. John's assisted with an event at Memus village hall, organised by Fiona de Clay, which raised over £8,000 for REFILWE the South African childrens charity, whilst other members assisted in CHRISTIAN AID WEEK door to door collections. A further donation of £1150 was made to REFILWE from sales of TRADECRAFT goods in St.John's. Also in May an event arranged by our congregation, held in our halls raised money for CAFOD (The Catholic Fund For Overseas Development)

Our Diocesan Lent appeal raised almost £5000 for JACARANDA HOUSE ORPHANAGE in Swaziland. The cheque was presented to nuns from the Order of the Holy Paraclete, who founded and run the house, at a lunch hosted by our parishioners in May, at Easter Ogil house, the home of Shelagh & Colin Millar. We endeavour to promote good environmental practice through the principles of the Eco-congregation guidelines. We also hope to do our bit to make our country and the world a better place by supporting such organisations as Christian Aid.with prayer and when possible, practical help. Please contact us if you would like information about any of the organisations referred to.

FARM AFRICA: our Harvest festival appeal raised £280. 53 for this charity and below is an extract from a letter recieved by St.John's from Hugh King:

.............The ongoing support of churches like yours helps our work to continue to transform the lives of thousands of people in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Southern Sudan. Be it through loaning animals to help farmers build assets, improving irrigation to increase harvests or developing crops that are resistant to droughts, our work helps people build secure livelihoods for farmers and better futures for their families............

Church support makes a difference to some of the poorest people on earth.

OUR CHRISTMAS 2006 GOOD CAUSE: was the Aberlour Child Care Trust for which £325.25 was raised at our Christingle service . Information about Aberlour is available on their website. www.aberlour.org.uk

LENT 2007 The Lent lunches held in St.John's halls raised £716. 60 for Christian Aid & SCAIF St. John's Carol Service collection raised £71.40 making a total of £787 which was shared between the two charities.

Door to door collections in Forfar were carried out during Christail Aid week by a team from St.John's, organised by Julian Ashley.

St. John's Lent appeal raised £215 for CATH

Members of St. John's assisted Fiona de Clay on May 29th at a highly successful art exhibition held at the Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh, in aid of the REFILWE charity for children in South Africa

A talk by Sister Fay of the Order of Franciscan Missionaries, in June raised £556 which was shared between the order, who help people in thw world's most deprived areas and St.John's Fabric Fund.

Our Harvest Festival appeal raised money for Village Water, a charity devoted to to providing clean water to those unfortunate people in so many African who currenty have no accessable clean drinking water.