Care Leaver information

Hermione Kelly, a member of our Soul group, recently shared with us her experience of being a care leaver in the evening service. A care leaver is an adult who has spent time in care as a child (e.g. foster care or residential care). Hermione wants our church family to know the challenges that care leavers face so that we can pray for, support and welcome more care leavers into our church family. Because of their experiences in childhood, care leavers face a number of challenges and often don’t have the support networks around them that other young people take for granted. Please pray for our outreach to care leavers in our area, and that through St John’s they can find their true home with Jesus.

If you’d like to find out more or get involved in supporting care leavers talk to Hermione or she recommends this website: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/children-families/childrens-social-care/children-in-care/children-in-care-and-care-leavers

27/10/2026

Planning your Visit

Welcome to St John's Church!

We are so delighted that you have found our website. We are a Church family in Wimborne for anyone living, working or studying around this area. Whoever you are, whatever your age, whether you’re an experienced Christian or not, we would love you to join us.

From an intrigued onlooker to the committed follower we are keen that everyone should grow in relationship with God through knowing Jesus. To help us do that our emphasis is on hearing God speak to us by his Holy Spirit through his word, the Bible. Each of us knows that we only grow in a relationship with someone and get to know them when we spend time listening to them and responding and reacting to what they say. So the focus of St John’s is on listening to God’s word, talking to him in prayer and taking up all that he says.

The Church family here at St John’s longs to help anyone who wants to investigate the life of Jesus. On this site you will find people, meetings, talks and events shaped to help you take another step forward in finding out more about God and his love for us in Jesus, and to help you get linked into the church family life.

We hope to have the opportunity to meet you personally in the very near future and that you will quickly feel at home at St John’s.

Our new Vicar, Revd Tim Partridge, joins us at the end of October - it will be a pleasure to welcome him, his wife Abby, and their three children to the church family.

Nigel Day and Paul Wareham (Churchwardens)