Welcome to the Website of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sandhurst, Berkshire
Welcome by Rev John Castle, Rector
St Michael’s is a community of people who worship God together, and who want to know God better and serve him better in our daily lives.
People come to our church for all sorts of reasons - at major life events such as marriage, christenings, bereavement, to find God and his purpose for their lives or to get involved in a local Christian community.
Whoever you are, we hope you'll find what you are looking for on this site, so we can help you practically, spiritually or however we can!
People come to our church for all sorts of reasons - at major life events such as marriage, christenings, bereavement, to find God and his purpose for their lives or to get involved in a local Christian community.
Whoever you are, we hope you'll find what you are looking for on this site, so we can help you practically, spiritually or however we can!
Visiting the ChurchEveryone is welcome to come into the church, to spend some time in a quiet space away from the busy-ness of life, to take shelter from a sudden shower, or to look around; whatever the reason, you are more than welcome. We try to keep the church open as much as possible for private prayer.
If the church is locked, you can obtain a key from the office (in the centre at the bottom of the path) during office open hours. See the contact page for details. A history and guide booklet is available to buy in the church and from the office, or you can find extracts here. Hall and Meeting RoomsIn the Pastoral Centre next to the church we have a large hall and several meeting rooms available to rent on a one-off or regular basis. Details here.
The General Election - A Christian ResponsePlease see the Rectors Blog.
800th AnniversaryDetails of our 800th Anniversary in 2020 with information about events can be seen here.
HighlightsText of the sermon for Advent Sunday 1st December by Rev John White can be found here.
The December 2019 Newsletter is available here.
December 2019 Services (with details of "hymns of the month") can be seen here.
Please Pray For . . .The Children's Society, the charity we support regularly as a church during the Christmas period. See the article in the December Newsletter, which is reproduced here.
The Sonning Deanery Prayer Cycle for December has an emphasis on Christmas activities at the various churches in the Deanery. Please follow this link.
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"Advent Hope"
The following article by Emma Hodge (Church Warden) appears on the front page of the December Newsletter.
Advent is a frantically busy time with Christmas preparations, parties, work deadlines moved forward, carol services (to name but a few) but it is also a season of hope. However, it is not always a happy time, for many of us it is a time of reminders of loved ones who are no longer with us, family tensions, worry about finances and the future.
John’s gospel has in its opening paragraph, the verse ‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it’ (John 1:5) and this reminds us of a prophecy written hundreds of years before by Isaiah (Isaiah 9:2).
We all experience the darkness that stress, fear, anxiety, grief bring and this is the same darkness that Isaiah and John were referring to; but we also need to remember that there is a light that is not overcome by that darkness, that light is Jesus. This is the hope of Advent. The son of God coming into our world as a baby, in a world where there was political turmoil and fear, God sends Jesus to come to us as an infant. This is the light that is referred to in the bible and in our darkest moments, we need to remember that Jesus is the light of the world.
Let us pray this Advent that we remember that Jesus is our hope and light in the difficult times and for those we know who are struggling to see and know that there is hope in the world, hope represented in the baby born in Bethlehem.
John’s gospel has in its opening paragraph, the verse ‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it’ (John 1:5) and this reminds us of a prophecy written hundreds of years before by Isaiah (Isaiah 9:2).
We all experience the darkness that stress, fear, anxiety, grief bring and this is the same darkness that Isaiah and John were referring to; but we also need to remember that there is a light that is not overcome by that darkness, that light is Jesus. This is the hope of Advent. The son of God coming into our world as a baby, in a world where there was political turmoil and fear, God sends Jesus to come to us as an infant. This is the light that is referred to in the bible and in our darkest moments, we need to remember that Jesus is the light of the world.
Let us pray this Advent that we remember that Jesus is our hope and light in the difficult times and for those we know who are struggling to see and know that there is hope in the world, hope represented in the baby born in Bethlehem.
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