St Jude’s has a regular whole church gathering on a Sundays at 10.30am
The mornings at St Jude’s are relaxed and friendly and all you will need will be projected onto the large screen so you won’t need a hymn book or service sheet. We don’t use much liturgy and we hope our services flow naturally enabled by the Holy Spirit, combining singing, teaching and prayer – with a communion every other week. (Our services are also live streamed and archived on our YouTube channel that you can find here.) We also have lovely fresh fair trade coffee and tea after the morning so we can all catch up.
Following our Next Era Building Project and the re-ordering of the church, you can see how it is laid out for a normal Sunday here…
Our Sunday morning services at 10:30am have worship suitable for all and we also mark the major festivals like Harvest, Remembrance, Christmas, Easter etc with All Age gatherings. At other times on Sunday mornings our younger people have their own gathering when they have the option of joining our Sunday morning club – Jude’s Club. We also have a creche area in the church for the youngest members of the community.
On the first Sunday of every month we have Brunch gathering. Folk arrive anytime from about 10:15am onwards and we all sit at round tables and share a free buffet brunch of croissants, toast and cereals (with gluten and dairy free options) alongside fresh coffee, tea and fruit juice. At about 10:50am we begin a very light service for all ages, that even includes a cartoon version of the Bible reading (the actual reading is always printed and on the tables). We would normally finish by 11:30am.
For those Sundays this is the layout below, exactly the same as our Tuesday morning Community Hub Cafe..
We also offer an opportunity to gather at 10.30am on a Wednesday morning in a group we call the Midweeker that normally has a monthly Communion and other weeks ‘Thoughts for the Day’ times when different folk in the community bring their reflections on the passages of scripture chosen for each week. – always with lots of fellowship opportunities and regular days out!
If you are coming by car, we have a small car park on site and the local roads can be parked on easily on Sundays. The weekday parking restrictions are applied between 10am and 11am except at our end of Knighton Road where a 2 hour limit applies between 8am and 8pm, but only on weekdays.