On Wednesday 22nd March, we will be trialling a Repair Café to run alongside the SJ’s Café in St James Church, Abinger Common between 9 and 10:30am. We will be offering sewing repairs, minor alterations to clothes, sewing of tears in seams, hems, darning, zips, etc. Please do drop in and see if we can …
Author archives: Philip Rawlings
Sermon 19th March 2023
Mothering Sunday 2023 We’ve come here this morning to say thank you. Thank you to our mothers for all that they are and all that they do for us.And for some of us we have come here to remember. To remember our mothers who are no longer here to say thank you to – but …
Music 2023-04-09
9th April 2023 Easter Day 11.30 Parish Communion,Lighting & Procession of the Paschal Candle O filii et filiae – Anon. Medieval (sung in English)Hymns NEH110 Jesus Christ is risen today; Gloria substitute NEH105 Christ the Lord is risen again; NEH486 We have a gospel to proclaim; And can it be; NEH120 Thine be the gloryAnthem: …
Sermon 12th March 2023
Exodus 17: 1-7, Romans 5: 1-11, John 4: 5-42 My goodness don’t we all love to grumble: be it about the weather, the Government, the NHS or the lack of tomatoes and cucumbers in our supermarkets. Apparently, the word is derived from the Middle French word ‘grommeler’ which means to mutter through the teeth. And …
Mothering Sunday
Come and join us for a short family service to celebrate Mothering Sunday, 9th March at 11:30am – with free posies and refreshments! We look forward to welcoming you!
Sermon 4th March 2023
Genesis 12:1-4a, Romans 4:1-5 & 13-17 What does it mean to be faithful?What does it mean to live by grace and not by works?Can the ungodly be righteous? In our bible readings today, Paul addresses all this and more. Our Romans passage is not easy to understand and at first reading is rather confusing – …
Music 2023-03-27 practise
27th March 2023 7-8:30pm Choir practise Coldharbour
Music 2023-04-02
2nd April 2023, Palm Sunday 10:30am Combined Parish Communion with Palm Sunday Procession Organ: Volluntarie 4 parts – Thomas Weelkes (d1623) Pretroit: The royal banners forward go (NEH 79, vv 1,3,6,7) Hymns: NEH Sing Hosanna; NEH86 My song is love unknown; NEH90 O Sacred Head (vv 1,4,5); The Servant King Anthem: God so loved the …
Music 2023-03-12
12th March 2023, 3rd Sunday of Lent 6:00pm Choral Evensong Organ: A Voluntary – Gibbons Pretroit: Lent Prose Hymns: NEH64 Be thou my guardian and my guide; NEH495 God is working his purpose out; NEH244 Glory to thee Psalm: 46 Canticles: Shephard/Ives Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks – Herbert Howells Organ: Fugue …
Music 2023-03-05
5th March 2023, 2nd Sunday of Lent 10:30am Parish Communion Organ: A Voluntarie: for my ladye nevell – ByrdPretroit: Call to Worship – ByrdHymns: NEH238 New every morning is the love; NEH339 Be thou my vision; NEH94 We sing the praise of him who died; NEH498 (tune185) Son of God, eternal saviourAnthem: Wash me throughly …
