Courses between September and December 2025.Sunday Snippets Our short teaching session to introduce you to a wide variety of topics for half an hour on a Sunday morning - starting around 11.30amBible StudyOur weekly Bible Study that allows for a much deeper exploration of scripture. This meets on Zoom each Monday at 10.15am. Contact Fr Mathew for the Zoom link.Our Autumn and Lent coursesThese spend several weeks looking more deeply into a particular topic and will meet on Thursdays, both after the 10.30am Eucharist and at 7.30pm. Come back here for more details.You can dip in and out of any group to fit around your other commitments and all groups are suitable for people who are completely new to theology.
Over the past few weeks we have listened to the views of the congregation and people in the local community about how we can better grow in faith and serve our community.The survey is now closed.
We are delighted that the Rev’d Alice Smith has been appointed as our Vicar. She was licenced by the Bishop of Chichesterat a service in Church on Monday 17 February 2025.Mthr Alice was born on the west coast of Scotland, and after an early childhood in various places, went to secondary school in mid Wales.After a degree in Physics and Astronomy at UCL (which she has largely now forgotten) she worked for two years at St Michael’s Camden Town in London, during which time she was selected for ordained ministry. She spent three years at St Stephen’s House in Oxford, doing, amongst other things, a BA in Theology.She was ordained deacon in Chichester Cathedral in 2014 to serve in the, as then, Moulsecoomb Team Ministry in Brighton. She finished her curacy at St Swithun, East Grinstead, before spending the last 6 1/2 years as Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park, London, adding on St Thomas Finsbury Park for latter 2 1/2 years.In her last parishes, she had a particular ministry to those suffering from food poverty, as well as focussing the parishes’ energies into growing its children’s and families ministry. At the Good Shepherd, she is particularly looking forward to working with local schools and groups of young people.Mthr Alice is married to Harry, who is a solicitor, and has two young daughters, Martha (3) and Anna (1). Her hobbies are slightly theoretical (what with the shepherding of two small ones), but they would be running, cycling, baking and knitting. Pictures are on Flickr here
