This Sunday

Sunday 19th August

9.00am Morning Prayer at
St Giles Church  Directions 

10.30am  Family Communion Service
St Andrew’s Church Directions

6.30pm Evensong
St Giles Church  Directions 

We record our sermons. You can listen to them here:
Link to the sermons

Prayer Link

This Month’s prayer link contact is John Wheatley. Please email or text prayer requests to John (contact the church office for his email or mobile)

Life Groups

We have several Life Groups, which
meet at various times during the week, click here or speak to Andrew to find
out more or see which one might suit you.

Hiring St Andrew’s

Please note that whilst we are “running in” our new Caretaker and Lettings Manager, the hire of rooms at St Andrew’s will be limited to existing hire arrangements. Please contact the Church Office with any queries.

GDPR

The new data protection law came into effect on 25th May. Please make sure you have completed a consent form, so that we can send church notices and updates to you. These are available in both churches or you can download one here. You can also view our Data Privacy Notice. The blog is separate – you can read this any time by clicking on the link in the middle of this page and “follow” it if you would like to receive it in your email inbox.

Looking Ahead

Please note the following adjustments to the church timetable for August:

St Giles’ Church will keep its regular opening times for visitors.

The Church office will be open Mon, Wed, Fri only. It will be closed from 14th-21st August. Emergency contact details will be available on the answerphone message.

Junior Church will be on holiday throughout August.  But join us on
12th, 19th & 26th August when youngsters will stay with us in the service and there will be colouring-on-the-carpet.
Our next  All-age service will be on 2nd Sept.

TJ Moving on

Congratulations to TJ on her selection for Ordination training and being offered a place at Penn & Tylers Green Churches. TJ’s last Sunday with us will be 2nd September. We wish her well!

Bacon chefs needed!

We need volunteers to cook our Bacon Sarnies on 2nd September. If you can help, please contact the church office.

Our new Vicar

Natasha Brady will be joining us as our new Vicar from Sunday 26th August and her official welcome to the parish will be at St Giles’ on Thursday 6th September at 8pm. It’s going to be a full house so please RSVP to the Church Office by 31st July. Read an introduction to Natasha here.

Church Barbecue 9th Sept

Our annual Family Service and Barbecue will take place on Sunday 9th September at St Giles’ at 10.30am.

Opportunity for Confirmation

There is an opportunity for confirmation in the local area on Sunday 23rd September at 6pm (venue tbc) If you are interested or considering confirmation, please speak to Andrew.

For the complete calendar of church events click here

We’d love to help you…

If you are looking at one of the following please follow the links below or contact the church office.

Baptism                  Confirmation
Marriage                  Funeral
Personal Prayer       Healing
Hiring St Andrew’s 

St Andrew’s church centre has a variety of rooms for hire. For more details please
click here

If you’d like to help us…

If you have some time to help regularly or
now and again we’d love to hear from you.
Click on the areas below to find out more

Reapers –        Maintaining our grounds
Dusters –         Keeping St Giles beautiful
Coffee Shop –  Come and be a Barista
Sunday Team –  Join a Sunday Coffee team
Bell ringing –    Learn to ring
Financial Support   …. and lots more

Contact the church office to volunteer