Author: Paul Garrett

This is a copy of our tribute to Her Majesty the Queen which featured on our home page during the official time of mourning. A number of people have asked if it could be preserved. We are deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and offer our condolences to her family and…

Our flower rota is now available on line. You can access it from our calendar page or directly using this link. We are very grateful to all those who provide and arrange flowers to decorate the church and would love to welcome more people, whether regular members of our congregation or not, to be involved…

On February 1st it is one year since the Myanmar (Burmese) military junta overthrew the democratically elected government. Doctors and nurses, worried about the welfare of the people, have since then been leading peaceful protests as part of a Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). Latest figures show that 1,375 Protestors have been killed and over 8,000…

In order to protect everybody involved we have taken the decision to cancel the Angel Festival fun day on Saturday 27th November.

We have a new service which will be fairly short and solely internet-based using Zoom. It will take place every Sunday at 4.30pm and will start on Advent Sunday (28th November) at 4.30pm. Further details and a link to use will be on our home page soon.

Our Annual Church Meeting will take place after the morning service on Sunday 23rd May 2021. It will also be possible to join on Zoom using the usual Sunday service link. Documents for the meeting for those joining on Zoom can be found below.

Following the presentation given by Jane Hugo, CEO of Streetlife at our recent service, here are some links and contact details for the various types of volunteering and donations she mentioned as well as some more general information. Streetlife’s web site and FaceBook page These are full of information about the charity and how it…

The following poem was sent to us by former parishioners Bill and Barbara Birmingham telling of their memories of Rogation Day. Prayer comes the Rain For many months there’d been no rainThe farmers started to complain.The fields were dry throughout the nation.The church gave farmers intimationThat on the Sunday called RogationThe Vicar and the congregationWould…

Our opportunity to admire the strength of the Vanuatu Christian community, to empathise with their concerns and to be encouraged by their faith. We ask you to share in this prayer, taken from a service prepared by Vanuatu women from different Christian denominations: Let us be united in prayer with Vanuatu and the world. Everlasting…