Our main Sunday service is for all the community and ably supported by our choir. The service which includes music, a sermon and prayers, helps us reflect on what God is doing in our lives and in the world. Refreshments are available after the service.

A morning of fun activities, snacks and singing (and conversation for the adults too!).

A lunch time group for all - no need to book, just come along. A light lunch will be served. Please ensure to inform us of any dietary requirements and allergies.

A fun social group for all in the community - if you enjoy good conversation, and playing board games, this will be right up your street.

We have had a dressmaking group at St Matthew’s Church for over 25 years. During that time we have had some very interesting projects. Some of our members make new outfits, others do alterations or adjustments, to original garments, as fashion changes. We can offer basic help for those who are beginners, and ongoing help for those with more experience.

This is our weekly family-friendly service which may sometimes take an alternative approach to worship compared to the traditional Sunday Eucharist.

Do you love singing? Our choir is a friendly and welcoming group of people who are always on the lookout for new members! Come and join us and immerse yourself in the beauty of the English choral tradition.

Join us as we begin our Lenten journey together with our Ash Wednesday Eucharist with Ashing

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Back by popular demand, join us at St Matthew's Church on 7th March at 6pm for a Beetle Drive! Tickets are available by emailing [email protected] or they may be purchased in church from 10-11am on Sundays and 5-6pm on Thursdays. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Join us as we celebrate our Mother Church, Mother Mary and our own Mothers and those who have shown us a Mother's love.

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Join us as we Journey with Jesus as he enters Jerusalemat the start of this most Holy of Weeks.

On this day we commemorate Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to accomplish his saving work by dying and rising again. The Palm Sunday liturgy has two distinctive features: the Procession and the Passion Gospel.

The Procession expresses our readiness to take up our cross and follow Jesus, as we go with him to the place of suffering and death.

The reading of the Passion Gospel then takes us into the very heart of the mystery of Christ’s love.

For Palm Sunday, along with the rest of the days of Holy Week, is a celebration of the victory Christ won over death by his dying on the cross. As the week goes by, we look at this one, single mystery from different angles. Today, the Procession and the Gospel Reading remind us that the kingly power of Christ is the power of self-giving love alone.

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A journey through Holy Week through the eyes of women accompanying Jesus with reflections by Paula Gooder and art by Ally Barrett

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Follow in the footsteps of Jesus on the way of the cross through prayer and devotion

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Join us as we celebrate Jesus’ gift of the Eucharist, given to us at the Last Supper.

On this night we focus on Jesus’ command (mandatum) to love one another as he loves us. Jesus’ love is shown in all its fullness on the cross. But on the night before his death, Jesus washes his friends’ feet as an act of loving service. This is the kind of practical love which must characterise our life together as a Christian community, and so we re-enact the Foot Washing as a sign of our commitment to that love.

The love of Jesus was also expressed at the Last Supper by his giving to us of the Eucharist. At the end of the service the Blessed Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood is carried to another part of church and a Watch of Silent Prayer is kept.

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Join us for our family-friendly interactive service on Good Friday to contemplate Jesus' crucifixion.

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Join us as we experience the love of God from the cross

This day is a triumphant celebration of Christ’s victory. For on the Cross he triumphs over sin and death; that we might live for ever with him. We focus on the instrument of execution on which our Lord died for us. The Cross is brought into church, there is a time of silent adoration, and people may come forward and spend a moment there in reflection, a moment of intimacy with the crucified Christ. You may kneel or stand before the Cross or remain seated in contemplation.

Holy Communion is the means by which we are united with Christ in his self-offering to the Father. And so the consecrated bread from last night’s Eucharist is brought out and distributed to the people.

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Jpin us as we experience new life as darkness is turned into light

This is the single most important moment in the whole Church year. For this is the night of Christian Passover, the night when Jesus ‘passes over’ from death to life. The Church meets at break of dawn, watching and waiting in vigil. Then, as the watching and waiting ends, the world of darkness gives way to the rising Son of God! We celebrate Christ’s victory and our own ‘passing over’ from sin and death to newness of life in the risen Lord.

We begin around the New Fire, and begin the Vigil which consists of readings and psalms in which we recall the salvation history of the people of God. The Easter Candle is then lit and blessed. From this we light our own candles ready for the Easter Proclamation and the Gospel.

Then, after the Easter Gospel, we gather around the font for the Baptismal Liturgy, in which we renew, and are renewed in, our baptism and our commitment to Christian discipleship.

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Join us as we celebrate Christ's Resurrection on this most Holy Day with our Easter Day Sung Eucharist

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