Having ancestors of my own who married at St John, the restoration and re-opening is very important to me as I am sure it is to all who have connections with this beautiful Church. Please see details of the appeal below and offer your support in any way you can. A request from Deb Brownlee appears below.............
For more information about the St John's Church Preservation Group, please see this link:
PLEASE READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY AND CIRCULATE ON IF YOU CAN
We have got 5 days to drum up at least 500 people to attend the attached event.
It has been very made clear to us that if we don't get enough people there it will be seen as proof of the lack of genuine interest and that will probably be that. All our work will have been wasted.
You will get this message again through facebook and general emails during the week but I am sending this email personally to people who I think might go the extra mile to help.
Please print off the attached poster (you have to join the two parts together) and put it everywhere you can - shops, lampposts, your car, front doors and windows, absolutely anywhere.
We also aim to get a load of leaflets out - if you can help with delivering and/or getting copying done please come to the drop in tomorrow Tuesday from 6.30/7pm or email me.
Please get in touch with your widest possible circle of friends and family - send them this poster and ask them to round up as many people as they possibly can to come to the Parish Hall on Saturday afternoon. Time commitment is about 10-15 minutes.
To make the Diocese consider re-opening the church we have to overwhelm them with the public demand. We can only do this with people, hundred and hundreds of them.
People can come and support from the heritage point of view, because they want to see it re-opened for community use or they may wish to go to church there, get married/christenings etc. They don't have to live in the area or parish.
Please email me back with what you will be doing to help with getting people there - some indication of numbers would be very re-assuring.
