Can you help the Fellowship?

Could you give your time to help us?For over 40 years the Fellowship has been organising conferences and publishing calendars, directories and its journal. More recently we have added the youth festival to our events. We send information to members and manage our funds in accordance with charity law. We respond to current issues in the Church and try to keep our website and social media up to date! All of these things require time, some require some skill – and we would love to have more of both on the team!

This Lent, please consider whether you could give some time to the Fellowship to help build up our strength. The more people we have, the less you might have to do! There are many opportunities. You could join the committee and help the direction of the Fellowship, or you could just take in a specific task. All help welcome!

Please contact us if you are interested in helping, either through the comments below or email OFSJBDirectory@gmail.com.

God bless you and give you strength this Lent!

Conference places available!

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There are still places available at our 40th anniversary conference, 19-21 July at The Hayes conference centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire:

40 things you didn’t know about Orthodoxy

Come along and hear our fantastic speakers on the founding and first 40 years of the Fellowship; the next 40 years for Orthodoxy in this country; 40 days with the Bible; living under the patronage of St John the Baptist; and finding God in the wilderness.

Places are still available, but contact us soon – link to the application form below.

OFSJB 2019 summer conference application form

£210 for non-member, £200 for members, £180 for unwaged or students. Let us know if a bursary would help you attend if you cannot afford the full amount.

Hope to see you there!

Forty Years of Fellowship!

1979 was the year that

  • Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister.
  • McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal
  • Sony launched the Walkman
  • Philips demonstrated their new “Compact Disk” or CD
  • Elton John was the first westerner to perform in the USSR
  • Mother Theresa won the Nobel Peace Prize
  • The Dukes of Hazard were topping the TV shows and
  • Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep starred in Kramer vs Kramer

It was also the year that the Fellowship of Saint John the Baptist was founded to bring together English speaking Orthodox in the UK.

Next year, 2019, the Fellowship Celebrates Forty Years!

As well as holding a fun, fortieth, family festival in the Summer- we’d also like to produce a special 40 years anniversary edition of Forerunner.

So if you have photos, memories or anecdotes of the Fellowship in the last 40, 30 or even 10 years, please share them with us!

Also, for those of us who weren’t even born 40 years ago – what is your vision for the next 40 years?

Drop us a line at ofsjb.web@gmail.com

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