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 10:30am-1pm for Ignite Church. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

 

Upcoming Events​

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Sunday 26th July – Annual Church Meeting: as last year, we’ll gather after a
shortened morning service at 10am to review what’s been happening in our
church over the past year and look forward to the year ahead, including how
we engage with the new Parish Mission Plan approved by the PCC and
supported by the diocese. 

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Sunday 2 August - sadly, we will say Farewell to our Team Rector and pastoral lead, the Revd Dr Canon Jeremy Worthen, as he heads off to Sheffield to serve as Canon Chancellor at the cathedral there. The 10am service will be his final service at St Mary's, and in the Ashford Town Parish.

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Saturday 19 September - Church Quiz Night - doors open at 7pm; the quiz will start at 7:30pm. £5 per person. Maximum of 6 people per team. Please bring your own drinks and nibbles and prepare to enjoy the fun!

 

Sunday 27 September - we will celebrate the Harvest Festival at our 10am service.

 

Sunday 4 October - World Cuisine Lunch, 12 noon (after our 10am service), featuring dishes from the many nations represented in our congregation at St Mary's - including Switzerland, Poland, South Africa, Scotland and more. 

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Saturday 21 November - Church Christmas Fayre, 10am-12 noon, with stalls, games, Santa's Grotto, raffle, auction and much, much more. 

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From 15 to 24 December, we are hosting a Christmas Tree Festival, organised by a local charity - more details will follow shortly!

 

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