Today we finished the commissioning of the new automatic sliding front doors at St Andrew’s Church Centre. We hope you like them and find them much better than the former swing doors. All St Andrew’s Church members who are key holders have been sent detailed information on how to open them (first in / opening…
Opening up Services at St Andrew’s (update 28th August) (please read carefully. Lots of important info here) Thank you to everyone who took part in the survey this week about opening up St Andrew’s for services. The feedback was very helpful in prayerfully discerning the way forward. The staff team, wardens and PCC representatives have…
As we begin a new mini series on the Psalms, Ruth Gould has put together this short video encouraging us to be creative and write our own Psalms as a great way of prayer and processing what our emotions are with God at this time. Here is Ruth’s video: Here is the psalm template that…
Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer initiative started in 2016 encouraging the church to pray between Ascension Day and Pentecost specifically that more people would come to know Jesus. See here for more details Obviously we are not able to participate as we might usually do this year, but we’d love you still to…
A Week of Guided Prayer 25th – 29th May A week of guided prayer provides a special opportunity to come aside for a while from your daily routine, to focus on your individual walk with God. You will be given a prayer guide who you will meet on line for approximately 45 minutes each day…
A message from Carolyn our Christian Aid Rep at St Andrew’s: Christian Aid Week 2020 starts on Sunday. Usually, there are teams of collectors across the country delivering envelopes and knocking on doors, not to mention fund-raising events. Last year, the St Andrew’s team raised over £1,800 from collecting in the parish and £8million was…
The Church of England has launched a new programme to make prayer a household habit once again. #FaithAtHome will feature weekly video content to help families to talk about faith and pray together. The videos will be led by children, young people, staff and school leaders from across the country. Over the next three months, #FaithAtHome will…
Listen to Alice and Helen share an idea to bless our community in this time of Coronavirus. We’d love you to help with the ‘Boredom Bag’ project Join us in making these bags, full of things to do, to help combat boredom during lockdown and to share God’s hope and peace with children and…
Helen’s top websites for supporting families and growing faith in families at this time. We have updated and moved the contents of this blog to our Children Online Resources page. Please click here to be re-directed.
A message from Sarah McCarten-Williams and the team at the Octagon. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who’s offered help to the Octagon and who’ve given money to us. If you want to find out how you can give via #FEEDMALVERN2020 then click here We’re really getting established in this new…