Services

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Regular events
 

​St Mary’s Community Café: Open every Saturday and Tuesday from 10am–12pm. Everyone is welcome.

• On Tuesdays, the Community Café hosts an arts and crafts table. Bring your own art or craft projects to work on, use donated materials to help create items for sale at future church events, or support initiatives such as knitted blanket squares. If you want to learn knitting or crochet, we can help. There’s plenty of time to chat too! If anyone has odd bits of wool or fabric they’d like to donate, these items would be very welcome.

• On the second Saturday of each month, there is an informal prayer meeting in the St Francis chapel at 9:30am, before the Community Café opens, with a particular focus on praying for the life of our church.

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The church is also open every Thursday 11:30am-1pm for Ignite. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

 

Upcoming events​

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14th May–Ascension Day: The ‘cluster’ Ascension service will be at St Mary’s Kennington this year, at 7.30pm, with a joint choir.

14th May–Thy Kingdom Come begins: look out for online resources to help us pray for God’s kingdom to come where we are, in our everyday lives and relationships, at https://www.thykingdomcome.global/thy-kingdom-come-2026 and via the TKC app. The theme this year is ‘God with us’.

16th May–Reading the News with the Bible: as part of our 2nd goal for thisyear at St Mary’s, ‘Explore how our faith relates to what’s happening in the world,’ we’re holding a discussion group 10–11.30am on Saturday 16th May in the Crothall Room. The plan is to take a couple of stories that have been in the news recently and explore how the Bible can inform the way that we respond to them. Please let Jeremy know if you’d like to be part of this.

 

24th May–Pentecost Sunday: This year’s annual parish Pentecost service will be held at 10.30am at Singleton Village Hall, the home of Singleton Community Church within our parish. It marks the 10th anniversary of Ashford Town Parish, and also comes at a point where we are launching a new plan for the next five years, based on our parish vision of many more people of all ages encountering faith, coming to faith, and growing in faith through our churches. It feels particularly appropriate to be hosted by Singleton Community Church this year, a church planted over thirty years ago with a flourishing ministry among children and young people. Come and be part of the celebration! Please note that there will be no 10am service at St Mary’s on this day, though the 8am service will happen as usual.

Sunday 7thJune–lunch at the London Beach Hotel: Following the great success of our 1st Church Family lunch at London Beach Hotel almost 18 months ago, we are planning another Sunday lunch at the LBH on June 7th so please save the date and join us! All proceeds from the lunch (excluding room hire) will be given back to us, so it's a great and enjoyable way to fundraise for our Church.

Saturday 11th July–Summer Fayre: The annual Fayre, organised by our hard-working Social Committee, will be open from 10am to 12 noon, and there will be the usual Tombola, raffle, coffee and cakes plus burgers, sausages etc. Bring your friends and family!