At St Mary's we believe that worship is important. It gives us the opportunity to have a life-changing encounter with the living Lord where we can experience his love, forgiveness and where we can be challenged and equipped to serve.
We have a rich diversity of worship, which ranges from the quiet, reflective early morning Holy Communion service, through the lively, family orientated, mid-morning variety of services to the more varied and thoughtful evening services.
These are our more reflective services where we have the opportunity to meet with God at the start of his day. We use the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) on the first Sunday of the month and Common Worship (A) on other Sundays.
In these services there is a rich variety of worship style, with traditional and modern worship hymns and songs. We always try to ‘scratch where people itch’ with good Bible teaching on a passage or theme that challenges us to apply what we are learning to our Christian lives. Often that teaching becomes the input for our home groups.
On the first Sunday of the month our children and young people start with their own groups and join us at the Peace in the Communion Service. They always bring a special and welcome dynamic to our worship.
On the other Sunday our children and young people start the service with us and there is usually a ‘warm up’ activity that starts at 10.45am and sets the scene for what they will be doing in their own activities. On these Sundays our children and young people usually leave for their own activities after the first hymn.
1st Sunday of the month Family Communion
2nd Sunday of the month Family Parade Service
3rd Sunday of the month Family Communion
4th Sunday of the month Morning worship /
Special Baptism Service
5th Sunday of the month Special Family Celebration Service
Again, these services provide a rich variety of style and worship as we meet together at the end of the Lord’s Day. These services usually provide us with more opportunity to explore the Bible theme for the day and its application to our lives. Often at these services we have guest speakers and leaders from our Church Family
1st Sunday of the month Evening Worship
2nd Sunday of the month Holy Communion
3rd Sunday of the month Healing Service
4th Sunday of the month Holy Communion
5th Sunday of the month Special Services
We are always trying to ensure that St Mary's is a warm and welcoming church for people of all ages and with different needs.
Our planned redevelopment will provide us with many further special facilities, but for now you may like to know that we have special facilities for:
