Sunday Services 10 am, 6 pm
Events & Concerts
General Information
Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.
If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.
Other activities include our Welcome Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (run jointly with Our Lady & St Thomas RC Church), and on Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm the church is open for private prayer.
Concerts
St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).
Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.
Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!
Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day December 2023
Dec
10
Sun
Dec 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Dec 10 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Join us for Evensong – a service with hymns, readings, prayers and a sermon. We also sing some parts of the service.
Dec
14
Thu
Dec 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Adrienne Walters (soprano)
Music includes some Christmas music and carols for the audience to sing.
Provisional list of the music:
Mozart: Alleluia (from Exultate Jubilate)
Eric Fogg: The Carol of the Little King
Peter Cornelius: The Three Kings
Cecil Gibbs: Why do I love?
Daquin: The Cuckoo (piano solo)
Bach: Two movements from Magnificat: Et exultavit; Quia respexit
Britten: Four songs
Adolphe Adam: O Holy Night
Strauss: Audition Aria (from Die Fledermaus)
Dec
16
Sat
Dec 16 @ 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
All welcome at Harrow Philharmonic Choir‘s Family Carol Concert. Adults £5 (on door); children free. Conductor: John Wyatt. Also featuring brass ensemble and handbell ringers.
Dec
17
Sun
Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Dec 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
A traditional celebration with Bible readings and carols. All welcome.
Dec
24
Sun
Dec 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.
Dec 24 @ 11:30 pm – Dec 25 @ 12:30 am
The birth of Jesus was announced to nearby shepherds by angels in the middle of the night. Join us for our First Eucharist of Christmas.
Dec
25
Mon
Dec 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Our sung Eucharist on Christmas morning.
Dec
31
Sun
Dec 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.