The G46 Scouts meet on Friday evenings, in their HQ behind the Church Hall. For further details, please see the attachment below.
We're hosting a 'health and wellbeing' fair in our Church Hall - please see the attached poster for details.
Our main Sunday service takes place at 10.00, and all are welcome. We follow a modern and accessible Common Worship order of service, with Junior Church for children and young people roughly every other week: for details, please see the individual listings on the 'Services and Events' page.
In Junior Church we aim to provide fun, faith-centred activities for primary school age children, while 'older' young people help with leadership. Junior Church generally takes place on alternate Sundays during school terms; the young people join us in church for Communion and share some of their activities with the congregation before the Blessing and Dismissal.
Holy Communion for Ascension Day: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo,
First reading: Acts 1. 1-11
Gospel: Luke 24. 44–53
Ascension Day marks a pivotal point both in the very early history of the church and in the church's year. The day's readings look back upon the earthly ministry which Christ has now concluded, but also look forward to the gift of the Holy Spirit, the future ministry of the Apostles, and the Second Coming. Whereas many famous representations of the scene depict Jesus rising vertically into a cloud, sometimes in quite a comical way, some of the earliest are both more naturalistic and more meaningful, showing Jesus stepping from a mountain top into heaven; earth and heaven are thus made clearly distinct, but not necessarily distant from each other. The image above is the upper half of a fresco by Giotto showing Christ's reception by angels; the lower half (in the complete picture attached below) shows the scene from an earthly perspective, with the apostles looking upwards and the angels mentioned in Acts 1. 10-11.
Ascension Day itself falls exactly forty days after Easter, and therefore on a Thursday, but it is traditional to transfer the feast to the Sunday immediately following, as we are doing today.
The Cub and Beaver sections of our G46 Scout Group meet on Tuesday evenings: for details, please see the attachment below. The Group's HQ is behind the Church Hall.
All senior citizens and their carers are welcome at our Senior Moments group for a home-cooked lunch and an opportunity to meet.
First and third Wednesdays in each month.
'Fireflies', our Sunday evening youth club, is suitable for young people in school year 6 and above. All in that age group are very welcome.
Lunch for seniors, all on Thursdays at 1.00 p.m. A small donation is requested.
Please contact Lesley Moody, 07903 011118.
These lunches take place every other week, at 1.00 p.m.
