You are invited to explore spirituality through creative writing, art and music. Saturday, December 7th at the Old Church

Soul Space at St Mary's

All welcome

Come and join St Mary's Community Choir. All welcome

'Come and Sing' Fauré Requiem, directed by Geoff Weaver

November 2nd in the New Church

Detailed information and tickets here.

We will be serving CREAM TEAS on the lawn on August 17th, 2-5pm. This will be a fundraiser for St Mary's New Community Centre. Come and enjoy home baked scones and cakes with a cup of tea.

The Annual Parish Church Meeting  

Our next JOINT SERVICE will be to celebrate Mothering Sunday on March 31st. This will be in the New Church at 10.30am. There will be a collection for the Bishop's Lent appeal- this year all money raised will go to combat modern day slavery.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who made our Winter Market such a success. Special thanks must go to Elizabeth Smallman, Claire Garrett and Sarah Robson for their huge commitment and hard work. Final amount of money raised still to be confirmed but it looks like we've made about 4k towards the New Centre. Here are some photos:

Get your tickets here

Coming up...

The 2nd of our Seeking Soul Space events is this afternoon, November 16th in the Old Church, 3 - 4.30pm. 

Participate in time-honoured practices for clearing inner space: chants, sacred scripture, meditations and silence.

Facilitator: Liz Watson 

If you’d like to join a choir for the Carol Service on December 17th please sign the list at the back of church today.  Rehearsals begin on Nov 26th.

There are lots of events coming up over Advent/Christmas where we’d like to serve mulled wine, beginning with our Winter Market on Nov 25th. If you are able to donate a bottle of red wine we’d be really grateful. And would anyone like to serve mulled wine over the festive season?  Depending on who is available and when, we will be looking to offer this at weekends whilst the Christmas tree market is running. If you might be free, please write your name on the list at the back of church. 

All Souls Service,

7pm in the New Church

Thursday evening

Is there someone you love

but from whom you are

parted by death?

Would you like them

remembered at the service?

If so, please come early enough to print their name

before the service begins.

If you cannot be there, cards for names to be written on

can be found this week,

on the prayer table outside the Epiphany Chapel.

‘Though we need to weep your loss,

You dwell in that safe place in our hearts,

Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.’

John O’Donohue

You may have noticed that the Old Church has been shrouded in corrugated iron and scaffolding for the past 3 months. This was to enable us to do urgent repairs to the roof and the gutters and drainpipes. The work was made possible by a very generous grant from the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repairs Scheme, who have financed 82% of the work.

Seeking Soul Space’: a series of workshops exploring spirituality.

The first is an afternoon of Circle Dance with Heather Williams, in the Old Church, on Sunday, October 22nd.  3 - 4.30pm. Come and join in dances from around the world.

Circle dance is a form of social dance that uses simple steps and sequences. No knowledge of dance is needed; just a desire to experience the interconnectedness of movement and spirit.

Heather is a dancer (and scientist), who is keen to make the links between dance and spirituality. She leads the monthly ‘Danced Liturgy' at St James's Piccadilly.

Harvest Festival this Sunday.  New church, 10.30am. 

All our harvest produce will be donated to the food bank, so please don’t bring perishable food, nor rice, nor pasta. Tinned fruit, tinned corned beef, toiletries are all good! There will be a sale of Palestinian olive oil after the service so do bring some extra money.

James is raising money for the new St Mary's Centre by cycling from London to Paris in 24 hours. Let's support him!
Thank you, James!!!
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jameslyons1

Members of St Marys joined the Demo outside the ExCel Centre on Saturday, in opposition to the World Arms Fair being held there this week.

Huge THANK YOU to everyone who gave their time and effort on Sunday.