The Parish Eucharist at St Mary’s will include activities for children and posies for the ladies.At St Simon & St Jude, Milton on Stour, the service will be cafe church - an informal service with a cream tea, crafts and posies.
In a joyful and packed service on the evening of Thursday 29 January, the Rev’d Becca McDonnell was licensed by Bishop Karen and installed by Archdeacon Penny in St Mary’s, Gillingham.This brings to an end a long vacancy and marks a new chapter for our 3 churches. We warmly welcome Becca and her family and look forward to working alongside her in her ministry to our town and villages.
We have eight bells at St Mary’s Gillingham, which are rung regularly.Bell practice is on Monday evenings from 7:30pm to 9pm. The bells are rung for the 10am Sunday morning Eucharist from 9:30am.We have a small friendly team of ringers, but need a few more people to join us.If you would like to learn to ring (age from about 11 or adult), why not come along to one of our practice sessions to see us ringing and find out what is involved?Bell ringing is good fun for people of all ages, as well as being a service to the church. And it’s excellent exercise!Possibly you are already able to ring and would like to take this up again and join us.If you are interested, please contact the Ringing Coordinator, Alan Jeffs, on awjeffs@btinternet.com.
