Richard Dryer
Lent Termcard 2026
Lent Termcard 2026
'Tola Williams
Autumn Termcard 2025
Autumn Termcard 2025
Richard Dryer
Summer termcard 2025
Summer termcard 2025
Richard Dryer
Celebrate Christmas at St Stephen's
Celebrate Christmas at St Stephen's
'Tola Williams
Autumn Termcard 2024
Autumn Termcard 2024

Autumn Termcard

We would love you to join us at St Stephen’s this Autumn. The attached file shows details of our upcoming activities. Highlights include:

  • A Sunday sermon series looking at the first 7 chapters of the book of Matthew which shows us Jesus bursting onto the scene as he begins his public ministry

  • Home groups looking together at the book of Exodus and the privillege of being God’s people

  • A new evening service launching on 26 September

  • A new Mums and Tots group launching on 14 September

  • A seminar on being a Christian on the workplace on the morning of Saturday 13 November

  • A Christianity Explored course for those looking into the Christian faith or those wanting to go back over the basics

As far as it is possible and safe to do so we will hold our meetings in person. We will keep zoom links for Sunday services and prayer meetings, but would love you to join us in person if you are able to.

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Why listen to the Bible?

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Few would deny the influence of the Bible on our global culture but many would question its relevance today. Some view it with suspicion, others with nostalgia. Christians believe that the Bible enlightens our path through life. On 27th May at 8pm, we will run an on-line discussion to look at the trustworthiness of the Bible documents and their relevance to modern life. The session will last an hour and offer a mix of spoken input and the chance for questions. Join on the zoom link below or click here: http://tiny.cc/xxewoz

Summer Termcard

We would love you to join us at St Stephen’s this summer. The attached file shows details of our upcoming activities. Highlights include:

  • A Sunday sermon series looking at the first 6 chapters of the book of Acts which take us right back to the earliest days of the church - an exciting time as the faith spread rapidly after Jesus’ ascension.

  • Home groups looking together at the book of Luke

  • A Christianity Explored course for those looking into the Christian faith or those wanting to go back over the basics

  • Plans to launch an evening service in September 2021.

As far as possible and safe we will hold our Sunday meetings in person, with a zoom link for those who are self-isolating or feel uncomfortable coming to church during covid. The small groups will continue to meet on-line until we are allowed to do otherwise.

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Lent Termcard

We would love you to join us at St Stephen’s in 2021. The attached file shows details of our upcoming activities. Highlights include:

  • Home groups looking together at the book of 2 Timothy,

  • A Christianity Explored course for those looking into the Christian faith or those wanting to go back over the basics

  • A Sunday sermon series looking at Jesus’ last words to his disciples in John’s gospel.

  • A Lent course on the Psalms

As far as possible and safe we will hold our meetings in person, all with a zoom link for those who are self-isolating or feel uncomfortable coming to church during covid.

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Malachi: Spiritual energy for a despondent people

Malachi: Spiritual energy for a despondent people

2020 has been a year of frustration and disappointment. It shouldn’t surprise us if that mood of despondency drifts into our spiritual lives.

Over the next few Sundays we are going to be looking at the book of Malachi together in our services. Click the video below to get a 3 minute taster of how Malachi speaks to our current sense of malaise.

Autumn Termcard

We would love you to join us at St Stephen’s in the Autumn. The attached file shows details of our upcoming activities. Highlights include:

  • Harvest celebration, 18 October

  • Remembrance day service, 8th November, with a seminar that evening to consider how we reconcile our faith in God with suffering in our world

  • A three week course looking at Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, giving the chance to think back over the basics of the Christian faith

  • Carol service, 13th December

  • In our Sunday sermons we will be reading John 8-12, thinking about the nature of real faith and then the book of Malachi which will help us to think about nature of real repentance.

  • We will be launching a third Bible study group, meeting on a Tuesday evening. This will give us groups meeting on Tuesday evening, Wednesday evening and a Thursday morning. The groups will look together at the middle chapters of Luke’s gospel, where Jesus sets his face for the cross.

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Meeting during COVID

As we meet during COVID-19 we have a number of procedures in place to help keep us safe. These include:

  • We are keeping two metre social distancing between households within the church and have removed a number of chairs to facilitate this,

  • Anybody entering the church will be given hand-sanitiser on entry,

  • the government has made the wearing of face masks in a place of worship compulsory, other than for those with legal exemptions,

  • We are ventilating the building with doors open at the front and back of the church from an hour before the service,

  • We are not singing together as a whole congregation,

  • We have stewards who will encourage people to sit down in a particular place as soon as they enter the building,

  • We are exiting the building immediately after the service as directed by stewards,

  • Most importantly, we are keeping a live link to our services through zoom. If you are shielding, in a vulnerable health category, or feel in any way uncomfortable coming into the church, please stay at home and log into the service through zoom. Others are doing the same and we are working hard to ensure that the “zoom experience” is good. The link for zoom is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/122693181?pwd=RHVjbTd4STZwQlVTSEdQOVJsRnFoQT09 Meeting ID: 122 693 181 Passcode: 046849