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. We love to welcome people, whether you're looking for a church to worship in, would like to explore the Christian faith or are interested in getting married or having a child christened, or have recently lost a loved one.
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! Feel free to e-mail or phone us - see our Contact page.

Easter at St Michaels

Sunday 13 April (Palm Sunday) to Sunday 20 April (Easter Day)
A summary of services is available here.
For more details (including bible readings) see the usual April Services page.

APCM 27 April and Revision of Electoral Roll

Please see the announcement and information on the APCM page.
Important: If you are currently a member of the church Electoral Roll and want to continue, you are required to complete a new form this year, or you will no longer be a member.

Supporting Us

To make a one-off donation, please use the Donate button, which will take you to our page on Givealittle, who administer donations securely for us. You can include GiftAid here if appropriate. Your money will go to support the regular work of our church and the maintenance of our buildings.
For information about giving regularly to St Michael's, please visit our Donations page.

DONATE

If you would like to donate to a particular fund, e.g. the Spire Project, or would like to learn about making a regular monthly contribution, please visit our Donations page.

The Spire Project
Our beautiful church building needs repair - the wooden tiles (shingles) on the spire, the peal of six bells and the clock all need attention, the total cost of which is around £250,000. For more information, and how you can donate to this appeal, please visit our WinSpire 2024 page.

Exploring the Christian faith with the Start Course from 28th April 2025
What's life all about? Who is God? Can God be real to me?
This is a short 6-week introduction to the Christian faith which is run in a small group.
For more information, visit our Exploring Faith page.

Visiting the Church

The church is usually open for visiting and private prayer on weekdays and weekends (except during Sunday morning services), and you are welcome to light a candle as an act of prayer. This depends upon the availability of volunteers to open and lock it, but you can also phone or e-mail the office to arrange for the church to be open when you want to visit. (See contact page.)

Highlights

The April 2025 Newsletter is here.

April 2025 Services are here

Missed a service, or want to remind yourself of the sermon? In most cases the text of the sermon is available on the Services pages; select the month using the link above or in the main menu, then scroll down to the date you want.
Our Parish Communion Service, and some others, are live-streamed on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StMichaelsSandhurst and also on YouTube
https://youtube.com/channel/UC4vYB32hY4ana2nl8NeM-lA.
The Facebook post can also be viewed immediately after the event; the Youtube video takes a few hours to be available after the service has finished.

Please Pray For . . .

TearFund our charity for April. See article on Page 2 of the April Newsletter.
See here for a list of charities we are currently supporting.

Responding With Love

The following article by Rev John Castle appears on the front page of the April 2025 Newsletter

How do you show love and appreciation? Gary Chapman’s books on Love Languages talk of five ways to do this: words, gifts, thoughtful actions, spending time, physical affection. We can use these to deepen our relationship with God too: worshipping and praying, giving money, serving in practical ways, spending time with him; perhaps giving God a hug is more tricky, but we can certainly have experiences where we feel “hugged” by God!

In the story of Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus (John 12:1-8) we see a woman pouring out extremely expensive perfumed ointment on Jesus’ feet – a complete waste, according to one critic. But for Mary, this was a most appropriate way of showing her appreciation to Jesus for raising her brother Lazarus from the dead. What we do to show our love for God may be an indication of how deeply we appreciate all he has done for us, as our Creator, Provider, loving heavenly Father, and, above all for giving Jesus to die for us on the Cross so that we might know God and have eternal life.

Our Holy Week and Easter services are one way we can engage with God’s amazing love and allow our appreciation to deepen. How will you respond to God’s love this Easter?

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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