At St John’s our relationship with God, with each other and with those around us, is what really matters. We are not perfect – as a church or as individuals – but we are on a journey of faith and friendship and we invite you to come along and join us!
St John’s is a church family centred in Castlereagh, East Belfast. We’ve designed this website to introduce ourselves, to invite you to find out more or to come along some time to check us out.
St John’s is full of ordinary people – young and old, business people, teachers, OAPs, stay–at–home parents, musicians, all sorts! We do our best to be welcoming to everyone who comes along, whether it’s for a Sunday service, one of our many mid–week activities or for a special occasion like a Christmas service, a wedding or funeral.
At St John’s our relationship with God, with each other and with those around us, is what really matters. We are not perfect – as a church or as individuals – but we are on a journey of faith and friendship and we invite you to come along and join us!
St John’s is a Church of Ireland (part of the wider Anglican church across the world) and its full name is St John the Evangelist, Orangefield. Orangefield is the area (called a parish) where we are located, which the Church of Ireland has given us responsibility for, and so we seek to meet the diversity of needs of all those living in our locality – whatever their belief or background.
The wider grouping of churches we are part of is called the Diocese of Down and Dromore.
If we are planted in God - we will be rooted, stable, well nourished, mature, growing, fruitful - not just for the short term - but over the long haul. God’s Word and God’s Spirit together are like a stream of water that feeds our roots and makes us fruitful.
The quality of the fruit that we produce is dependent on what kind of nourishment we take in. Over time - as we depend on God - we will produce new life: mature, ripe, flavour-ful fruit.
We are to grow supernaturally from small beginnings - but we exist for the benefit of others. This is not an overnight thing – it takes time for a tree to grow and for fruit to mature.
We, at St Johns, are to be like a rooted, mature, fruitful tree – with many branches where many birds can make nests.