A service featuring members of our community:
Bob Skinner (Foodbank)
Sara Gillingham (Speaker on being Intersex)
Jeremy Hunt (MP)
Cathy Burroughs (Hale Community Centre)
Janet Martin (Foodbank)
Pat Evans (Mayor)
Stella Wiseman (Surrey Inclusive church)
Thanks so much to all involved.
A beautiful service with chants from Olivia and June Jasper.
Happy Trinity Sunday! This is the day when we celebrate the doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Below are the resources for this week, the Sunday morning services and four sermons, but first the notices:
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
I have updated the Children’s Page with an Adventurer’s Video – The Story of Joseph part 2.
Jean Probert’s funeral will be streamed online on 9th June at 2pm. Please let Lesley know if you would like to be able to watch that and she will give you the details.
Favourite hymns
On 10th June we are having a special service, members of our community including our MP and Mayor will be choosing their favourite hymns and will be saying why they love the hymns.
Then from 14th June we will be including in the services a “Favourite Hymn” slot for anyone who would like to take part – if you have a favourite hymn then please video yourself explaining why it is meaningful to you and send it to Lesley or Alan.
Happy Birthday
It is Glad’s birthday – Happy Birthday!
Here are the resources for adults at home this week.
Here are the resources for families at home this week.
We now have two Sunday morning services – an all-age one and a more traditional one:
All-Age:
More Traditional:
All- Age from Alan:
Lesley’s reflection on Rublev’s icon of the Trinity
John Innes’s Friday Service Sermon
Bishop Andrew’s Sermon:
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
I have updated the Children’s Page with an Adventurer’s Video – The Story of Joseph part 2.
Jean Probert’s funeral will be streamed online on 9th June at 2pm. Please let Lesley know if you would like to be able to watch that and she will give you the details.
Favourite hymns
On 10th June we are having a special service, members of our community including our MP and Mayor will be choosing their favourite hymns and will be saying why they love the hymns.
Then from 14th June we will be including in the services a “Favourite Hymn” slot for anyone who would like to take part – if you have a favourite hymn then please video yourself explaining why it is meaningful to you and send it to Lesley or Alan.
Happy Birthday
It is Glad’s birthday – Happy Birthday!
Here are the resources for adults at home this week.
Here are the resources for families at home this week.
We now have two Sunday morning services – an all-age one and a more traditional one:
All-Age:
More Traditional:
All- Age from Alan:
Lesley’s reflection on Rublev’s icon of the Trinity
John Innes’s Friday Service Sermon
Bishop Andrew’s Sermon:
Today’s service led by John Evans:
Jeremy Hunt, MP; the Mayor of Farnham; a prominent advocate for those born with intersex traits; and other key members of the local community, are all taking part in an online service of their favourite hymns, which will be online here on Wednesday, June 10, from 6pm.
Each person has chosen a hymn and will introduce it online explaining why they like it and what their Christian faith means to them. The hymns are a mix of old and new, and range from the 17th century My Song is Love Unknown, chosen by Janet Martin, one of the key organisers of the Farnham Flash Festival, to the 1980s’ one The Servant King, chosen by Sara Gillingham. Sara, an accountant by profession, also works with the church, universities and the media to raise awareness of people born with intersex traits, which is her own story.
Each speaks about what the hymn and their faith means to them – for Sara Gillingham it is a faith in a God full of grace, in whose image we are made, and Christ there beside us; while Jeremy Hunt speaks of the stillness which his faith gives him and how it is reflected in his choice of hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. Among the other hymns you can hear are Father I Place into Your Hands, chosen by Bob Skinner, whom many will know from Farnham Foodbank, and Faithful One so Unchanging, the choice of Cathy Burroughs, manager of Hale Community Centre. You will also hear the rousing God is our Strength and Refuge, chosen by Pat Evans, the Mayor of Farnham, and sung to The Dam Busters March.
Lesley Crawley explains the thinking behind the service: “Favourite hymns can speak to us on a deep level, through the music and the words, and help us understand more about God and our faith. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to hear the choices of those who have so kindly contributed and understand more about what their faith means to them.”
Join us here on Wednesday, June 10, from 6pm, or on Facebook or on the parish YouTube channel. You may even want to sing along!
Thanks to all the musicians involved in this beautiful service, a real treat:
Happy Pentecost! The day when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples and their courage to tell others about Jesus. AKA the church’s birthday. Below are the resources for this week, the Sunday morning services, three sermons and a play for your enjoyment, but first the notices:
We have a birthday to celebrate – The Church’s!!!
Favourite hymns
On 10th June we are having a special service, members of our cmmunity including our MP and Mayor will be choosing their favourite hymns and will be saying why they love the hymns. Then from 14th June we will be including in the services a “Favourite Hymn” slot for anyone who would like to take part – if you have a favourite hymn then please video yourself explaining why it is meaningful to you and send it to Lesley or Alan.
This week we particularly pray for: Lindsay, Anne, Jacob, Lisa, Sandra, Denis, Alfie, Janet, Fiona, Vera and Judith. We also pray for the families of those who have recently died: Liz Matthews, Jean Probert, Pat Munroe and Verena Holloway. Jean’s funeral will be streamed online on 9th June at 2pm. Please let Lesley know if you would like to be able to watch that and she will give you the details.
Here are the resources for adults at home this week.
Here are the resources for families at home this week.
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
I have updated the Children’s Page with a great little video from the Bible Society – Pentecost and the Early Church in 3.5 minutes.
We now have three Sunday services – an all-age one and a more traditional one in the morning and today a beautiful wholly sung one in the evening (comes live at 6pm):
All-Age:
More Traditional:
Wholly Sung Service (from 6pm):
All- Age Play
Alan’s Pentecost Sermon
John Evans’ Friday Service Sermon
Today’s service is led by John Evans. We are now able to receive donations online:
This church relies on donations to provide care and support to everyone in this community. Now more than ever, please consider giving generously to support our mission and ministry by clicking the button above. Thank you for your support.
Catch the premier of our stunning, all-sung service for Pentecost this Sunday, May 31, at 6pm, here on the website. Everything is sung – the Gospel, the sermon, the prayers, everything, some of it using original music composed for the occasion.
The service features Bob and Lesley Shatwell, whose concept this has been, Margaret Emberson, Wendy Edwards and Liv and June Jasper, and they have created, as Lesley Crawley said: “One astonishing work of art after another”.
We are also promised more than one Bob, Lesley and Margaret at the same time!
Don’t miss this beautiful, uplifting, creative service this coming Sunday (May 31) at 6pm, here on the website.
During the period of Thy Kingdom Come, we are asking people if they can create prayer stations at home and send them to us (news@badshotleaandhale.org)
Here is one which Michelle Chapman has made – a finger labyrinth with instructions which we have reproduced below.
Praying with the finger labyrinth
Once prepared
Coming out of the Labyrinth
