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 Monday (except bank holidays) 10am-12pm for Take a Break Café and every Thursday 11:30am-1pm for Ignite. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

 

Upcoming events​

Saturday 7th Feburary, 9am – Out first one of 2026 Men’s Breakfast: at the Singleton Environment Centre. All men connected to St Mary’s are welcome.

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      Parish Consultation- January 2026

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​The Parish Leadership Team are making plans for the future of our parish and we would very much appreciate your prayerful responces to these three questions to help us in our planning.

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1, How do you feel about where we are as God's people in this place at this time?​

​2, How do you hope to see our church grow and develop in the future?

3, What support and resources would help you with this?

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You can submit your responces in three ways

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• By e-mail to info@ashfordchurches.co.uk with the header PARISH QUESTIONS

• On paper to the Parish Office in an envelope labelled PARISH QUESTIONS- please include your name on your response.

• By joining one of the informal feedback groups in your own church- details available in your church

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 We'd like to have responces by Monday 19th January, to help us prepare for the       consultation morning, but you can still send them after that.

 

 Then come along to the Parish Consultation Morning on

                                        Saturday 24th January 9:30-12:30 at

                              John Wallace Church of England Academy

 to join with others across the parish to share ideas for the future of our parish

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                  if you would like to attend the Consultation Morning, please                                                             e-mail the Parish Office

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 To explain more and In preparation for the meeting leaders of the Parish have put                                                                  together this video

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