St. Michael and All Angels Sandhurst

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!

Memorial Service Sunday 1 November at 6.30pm

The service will be in Church and live streamed on Facebook. Details on News Page

Services - CoronaVirus

The notes below are intended as an overview of our Sunday services during these unusual times; please see the Services page for the current month for specific details.

Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion 8.00am
This service will restart in September and will be held in church. Everyone attending will be asked to provide their details for ‘test and trace’, maintain social distancing, and use hand sanitiser on entry. Communion will only be given as a wafer (gluten free available). All those speaking will not wear a face covering so that lip readers in our congregation can read the lips. Unless you are exempt, you are required to wear a face covering.

Parish Communion 9.30am
Our Parish Communion service is held every Sunday both in church and broadcast via our Facebook page . You do not need a Facebook account to watch.

Everyone attending in church will be asked to provide their details for ‘test and trace’, maintain social distancing, use hand sanitiser on entry. Communion will only be given as a wafer (gluten free available). All those speaking will not wear a face covering so that lip readers in our congregation can read the lips. Unless you are exempt, you are required to wear a face covering. At the moment, the only singing allowed is a soloist.

Family Service 11.15am
Our Family Service is on the first and third Sundays of the month and is held in church. Everyone attending in church will be asked to provide their details for ‘test and trace’, maintain social distancing, use hand sanitiser on entry. All those speaking will not wear a face covering so that lip readers in our congregation can read the lips. Unless you are exempt (including under 11s), you are required to wear a face covering. At the moment, the only singing allowed is a soloist.

Evening Services
Please check our newsletter or the current services page for the arrangements of the evening services, which will be live streamed via Facebook and may also be in church.

Visiting the Church

We are trying to keep the church open as much as possible for private prayer, but this does depend upon the availability of volunteer stewards.

Visiting/Using the Pastoral Centre

The Pastoral Centre is now available for use on a restricted and ‘by appointment’ basis. Please see the Pastoral Centre page for further details.

Supporting Us

All are welcome to join in our services whether online or in the church. If you wish to support our activities financially, please take a look at our Donations Page.

Highlights

Text of the sermon on Nehemiah 5 ("Putting Our House In Order") by Rev John Castle on Sunday 11th October can be found here.

October 2020 Services (with details of "hymns of the month") are here.

The October 2020 Newsletter is available here.

You can watch a recording of the APCM (Annual Parochial Church Meeting) held on 11th October on Facebook Page Livestream.
Papers related to the APCM (including the agenda and reports) can be found here.

Please Pray For . . .

Crowthorne Foodbank, our Charity for Harvest time.

The Sonning Deanery Prayer Cycle can be found at this link. The emphasis is currently on the world and the church in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.

"All Good Gifts Around Us . . . "

The following article by Rev John Castle appears on the front page of the October Newsletter.

Harvest Festivals remind us of the fundamental Christian doctrine of God as Creator, and of our dependence on the natural world for our very survival.

Two recent programmes I watched on TV, however, gave a different slant on this. The first was the live-streamed Eucharist in which Bishop Olivia gave a moving and challenging sermon on our response to the current ecological crisis. The other, of course, was David Attenborough’s ‘Extinction: the Facts’, describing the massive loss of biodiversity, caused by humans, which is occurring right under our noses.

But there is hope: we still have a window of opportunity to turn things around. And as Christians, we have rich resources in the Bible and Christian tradition to help us live more appreciative and sustainable lives. One inspirational model for me is St Francis of Assisi, whose festival is this month. Francis’ calling led him to preach the gospel, serve the poor and celebrate the creation (one of his poems inspired the hymn ‘All creatures of our God and King’). Caring for creation is not an optional extra for Christians: it is a fundamental expression of our faith.

Facebook

Facebook Page
We use this public Facebook Page to make announcements about Services and Activities.
Anyone can read this page, but only designated Editors can post to it.
http://www.facebook.com/StMichaelsSandhurst

Facebook Group
This private Facebook Group is where members of the congregation can exchange thoughts and ideas.
You need to make a request to join this group, but any member of the group can then post to it.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/StMichaelsSandhurst

Safeguarding

Safeguarding information can be found here.

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