St. Michael and All Angels Sandhurst

Welcome to the Website of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sandhurst, Berkshire

Our purpose:

Knowing God for ourselves
Growing as individuals and as a church
Showing God's love in the world

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!

Visiting the Church

Everyone 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 in the church and from the office, or you can find extracts here.

Highlights

Text of the sermon "The Anointing of David" by Jane Kraft on 17 June can be found here. Also the audio file.

The June Newsletter is available here.

June Services can be found here.

Summer Party for Winspire Saturday 18 August. See the News Page.

A new CD by the Choir entitled "Anthems Psalms and Canticles For The Church Year" is on sale at £10. For details of content see the News Page.

Please Pray For . . .

Compassion, one of the charities we support regularly as a church. See the Charities page.

The Sonning Deanery Prayer Cycle for June has a focus on St Pauls Wokingham, St Nicholas Emmbrook, and Woosehill Church. See below.

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"Love Is In The Air!"

The following article by PCC Secretary Dave Percival appears on the front page of the June Newsletter.

At Harry and Meghan’s wedding Bishop Michael Curry spoke passionately about the power of love. Did you know that there are five languages of love that we can use in all our relationships?

Loving words - being affirming, gentle, and kind in what we say, and of course telling someone where appropriate ‘I love you!’
Giving and receiving gifts - generosity flows from love, but it’s generosity with intent - seeking out the right gift for the person - making it personal;
Thoughtful acts of service - the little acts we can do for each other, asked or un-asked - serving each other with our time and talents;
Time and attention - stopping what we are doing, listening with our whole person, and really seeking to build empathy and rapport;
Physical touch - the touch of hands, the shoulder to cry on, the warm embrace - touch makes the connection personal.

Each of us will have a favourite - the little sign to us that makes us think ‘he/she really does love me!’ The most important thing is that we speak to people in their language rather than shouting in our own! Take a look through the gospel stories - can you find ways Jesus used each of these five languages as he reached out in love?

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