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.
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.
Supporting Us
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 - September update NEW
Our beautiful church building needs repair. The six bells are currently away being repaired, the wooden tiles (shingles) on the spire are due to be replaced starting late September or early October, and the clock needs refurbishment of the face, and major repair of the mechanism if it is to tell the time again. An update on the clock can be found on page 8 of the September newsletter. 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. Visiting the ChurchThe 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.)
HighlightsThe December 2025 Newsletter is here.
December 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 . . .The Children's Society our chosen charity for December.
See here for details of this and other charities we are currently supporting. 
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What Is Different This Christmas?
The following article by Rev John Castle appears on the front page of the December Newsletter.
As I write this, I wonder whether that was the wrong question. Isn’t that what we like about Christmas – that it’s predictable, comforting, traditional?
But this Christmas won’t be the same. Things have happened in our lives over the past year. Children/grandchildren have got older. Perhaps we’ve started a new job – or retired. Perhaps our health has improved – or declined. For George and me it will be the first Christmas with a grandchild. For others, this will be the first Christmas without a loved one – ouch! Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
But the core of Christmas has not changed. We’ll still sing familiar carols in church. And we’ll hear again how God reached down into this beautiful and broken world to say, I am with you in it all – Emmanuel, God with us.
My prayer, though, is that this Christmas will bring something new for many people - a discovery (or maybe a re-discovery) of the reality of God’s presence with us, a fresh grasp of the power of his love.
May this Christmas mark a new stage in your relationship with Jesus – a relationship that will deepen day by day and will carry you through whatever the new year has in store.
May you rediscover the truth of Emmanuel – God with us
But this Christmas won’t be the same. Things have happened in our lives over the past year. Children/grandchildren have got older. Perhaps we’ve started a new job – or retired. Perhaps our health has improved – or declined. For George and me it will be the first Christmas with a grandchild. For others, this will be the first Christmas without a loved one – ouch! Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
But the core of Christmas has not changed. We’ll still sing familiar carols in church. And we’ll hear again how God reached down into this beautiful and broken world to say, I am with you in it all – Emmanuel, God with us.
My prayer, though, is that this Christmas will bring something new for many people - a discovery (or maybe a re-discovery) of the reality of God’s presence with us, a fresh grasp of the power of his love.
May this Christmas mark a new stage in your relationship with Jesus – a relationship that will deepen day by day and will carry you through whatever the new year has in store.
May you rediscover the truth of Emmanuel – God with us
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
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
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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