Knitting group

On Tuesday mornings a group of 20 or so local people meet to knit in the East End of the church. Their knitting contributes to blankets for people in need in other parts of the world but the group get as much as they give from the experience because of the friendship and conversation that they build up and develop.

If knitting is your thing – or even if you’d like to learn – please do come. You are very welcome.

Embroidery group

We have a dedicated group of people who enjoy embroidery and are undertaking a range of different projects around the church to add colour and texture to the decoration the church enjoys. Recently the group completed two 20 foot long banners to hang at Remembrance tide and are now working on more to display at Advent.

Toddlers and small children

Pray Time

Pray time is currently not running. We are looking for a volunteer to help run sessions. If you are interested, we would love to hear from you! Please contact Jenny, Operations Manager [email protected] who will be happy to pass on your details.

Pray Time is our group run for babies and pre-school children and their carers! Join us for 10 minutes at the altar for songs and prayers.

Little Saints is our Drop In group for toddlers and their carers in the East End of the church. Anyone is welcome to come and it provides a good opportunity for young ones to play and their carers to meet others. Whilst not currently running, the  usual times are:

• Friday 10.00am -11.00am

We ask a suggested donation of £1 per child.

Please note that there is currently a maximum number of 8 adults per session. Carers are responsible for their children at all times during the sessions. The group runs term time only.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Book group

The Book Group meets in the Church: 12 noon-1.30pm, usually 4th Sunday of the month. Details of the book to be discussed are usually posted in the pew sheet. Or contact the church office [email protected] who will be happy to forward your details to the person who runs the group on behalf of the church.

If you are interested please come along with a copy of the book (and a sandwich if you want). We welcome people who cannot come each month or who haven’t finished the book!

Topical lunches

Topical lunches follow the format of a short talk by the invited speaker, followed by space for questions. The session starts at 1pm is finishes promptly at 1.45pm.

If you would like to volunteer to programme and host a series of topical lunches or contribute to a session, please contact the office, Jenny, Operations Manager: [email protected]  to find out more.

Coffee mornings

Every Thursday from 11am to 12.30pm people gather to catch up with friends and make new ones in our East End cafe. There is always someone from the church there to “host” the event and everyone is welcome. Contact the office if you have any questions: [email protected] otherwise just turn up.

Giving to good causes

As a church we believe giving to good causes is an important part of our ministry. In recent years we have supported the following organisations:

• USPG
• Church Army
• The Children’s Society
• Christian Aid
• Practical Action
• Water Aid
• Kingston Matabeleland Project
• Rethink
• Amnesty International
• Kingston and District Welcare Association
• Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness
• Oxygen Project
• Church Urban Fund
• Street Pastors
• Macmillan Cancer Support
• British Legion
• The Shooting Star Children’s Hospice
• Samaritans
• St Christopher’s Fellowship (a children’s charity)
• Kids Company

We raised this money through a variety of events, regular monthly coffee mornings, our May Day Mission event and November Bazaar, and a contribution from the Church.

We also sell paperback books throughout the year, and share the proceeds between Missions and the Church Appeal fund.

In addition to the monthly mission coffee mornings many people have held Saturday Coffee mornings for specific Charities.

The knitting circle also contribute to our mission work, providing blankets where they are needed.

2020 and onwards: We carefully considered all  suggestions we received for supporting good causes in 2020. It was felt important that we continue to support:

• Kingston Welcare
• Momentum
• Kingston Branch of the Samaritans
• Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness
• Medicines sans Frontièrs
• Refugee Action Kingston

In addition to those above which we continue to support we have added the two below:

• Sightsavers  (replacing World Vision)
• The David Nott Foundation (replacing the RNLI)

And it was felt important to add this last organisation:

• Refuge -(refuge.org.uk)

We hope that now we are more active in the church we are able to hold events to enable us to continue raising money for these worthwhile charities. If anyone would like to make suggestions on how we could do this do please get in contact by emailing Jenny, Operations Manager: [email protected]

Saints Alive

We no longer publish the Saints Alive magazine, although we are looking to produce a more frequent bulletin which will be produced and posted in the very near future. Do come back and check the website for updates. Oct 23