St John's Church, with a network of children's workers from local churches in the Wimborne area (sometimes know as CDCW the Central Dorset Children's Workers), have come together to offer an evening for volunteers working with children and youth. This will be focussed on the joys and challenges of helping engage and work with those with additional needs. The evening will be full of informative material and top tips for the wide range of needs children and young people can present with and how to also engage with their families. Mark Arnold, Additional Needs Ministry Director at Urban Saints will lead the training.

Booking is available here. We're asking for £5 per a person to help towards the cost the handbook and for Mark as speaker / training enabler and it may be worth speaking to your church leadership to see if they can cover this.

15/06/2026

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.

Stuart Hull and Nigel Day (Churchwardens)
Please note that we are currently seeking a new Vicar, following the retirement of Revd Peter Breckwoldt in July 2025