St. Michael and All Angels Sandhurst

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

Welcome

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.

Farewell From John Castle

The final Blog from Rev John Castle written on the eve of taking up his new position in Hertfordshire is here. See also the article on page 10 of the July 2026 Newsletter.

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 six bells have recently been re-installed following repair, the wooden tiles (shingles) on the spire are being replaced, and the clock needs refurbishment of the face, and major repair of the mechanism if it is to tell the time again.

The total cost of the whole Spire Project is around £250,000, and only a small proportion of this has yet been received in grants. We are hoping that local people and business will be willing to make some significant donations to enable our Spire, bells and clock to be returned to their former glory.

For more information, and how you can donate to this appeal, please visit our WinSpire 2024 page.

See also the article on Page 4 of the July 2026 Newsletter.

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 August 2026 Newsletter is here.

August 2026 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 . . .

Sandhurst Counselling Service, our chosen charity for August.
See the August Newsletter page 2 for details. See here for details of this and other charities we are currently supporting.

Please pray for the process of finding a new Rector for St Michaels.

In Everything Give Thanks

The following article by Catherine Wilkins appears on the front page of the August 2026 Newsletter.

For many of us, August will revolve around holidays with all the planning, packing, and travelling leading either to new places and experiences, or to a return to familiar destinations enjoyed in past years. I wonder how many of us will visit a church whilst on holiday, whether for a service, an event, or just to spend a few minutes of quiet reflection.

One of the things I enjoy about visiting another church is seeing how other communities do things, and potentially pick up some good ideas along the way. I love seeing the wonderful stained glass, carvings and wall paintings in other churches, which silently tell the story of centuries of worship of course, but sometimes there are opportunities to fall into conversation with church members and other tourists which are always interesting.

Whether you visit a cathedral, church or chapel on your holidays, I hope you have time to say a prayer there and take away a good memory.

I am reminded of the Isaac Walton memorial in Winchester Cathedral which has a verse that states:

“in everything give thanks”
1 Thessalonians 5:18

Could there be any better advice for a good holiday?

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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