Annual Report 2023
The Annual Report for 2023 was presented at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting on Sunday 28th April 2024. For a copy of the Annual Report, click here.
Family Services 2024
Stanton Church on the 2nd Sunday of each month is THE place to be. Tea, coffee, squash, cake and biscuits from 11am, and the Family Service starts at about 11:15. It lasts for about 30 minutes, so you can have more cake and still be home in time for lunch! Action songs, …
Stir Up Sunday – November 26 2023
The church’s year traditionally begins on Advent Sunday, which is the fourth Sunday before Christmas and falls on December 3rd in 2023. In the old Book of Common Prayer, the Sunday one week before that has always been known as “The Sunday Next Before Advent”. It’s actually still known as that, although because of the theme …
Walking Nativity 2023 – 3:30pm Christmas Eve
Journey with Mary, Joseph, the Shepherds, the Wise Men and the Angels from Nazareth (top of Church Lane), to the stable at Bethlehem (outside the church). This beautiful – if occasionally slightly chaotic – retelling of the Christmas Story is suitable for all ages, and is a lovely time for the village to come …
Christmas Carol Service 2023 – 7:00pm Christmas Eve
We can’t promise you a White Christmas, but we can promise you a wonderful traditional service of seven lessons and carols on Christmas Eve at 7:00pm. The readings from the Old Testament and the Gospels set the scene and then tell the story of the first Christmas, concluding with the wonderful reading from John’s Gospel In …
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Christingle – Family Service, December 10th 2023 at 11:00am
Our December Family Service is our annual Christingle celebration. Christingles are made using oranges and a few other things. During the service, each person will be given a Christingle and the candles are all lit to create a warm, magical glow symbolising the light of Christ and bringing hope to people living in darkness. The …
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From the Rectory – November 2023
In November we enter the annual season of Remembrance for our churches and our nation, culminating in Remembrance Sunday on 12th November. This year, as I write this piece in early October, I do so with a heart heavy with sadness against the backdrop of the dramatic and horrific escalation in the conflict in the Middle …
The Big Help Out
Volunteering on Coronation Bank Holiday-8th May 2023 Two days after his coronation, King Charles is encouraging us all to get out and do our bit for our local communities as volunteers on May 8th. If you’d be prepared to give an hour (or more!) of your time between 10am and 4pm on that day to …