FOLLOWING OUR LAST MINUTE APPEAL TO OUR CHURCH FAMILY ON THE 1 NOVEMBER 2023 FOR DONATIONS, ON TOP OF THEIR PRIOR GIFTS OF C.£400,000 (AND OTHER GIFTS FROM VARIOUS TRUSTS), WITH JUST TWO WEEKS NOTICE, WE RECEIVED HAVE EXTRA PLEDGES TO BRIDGE THE FINAL GAP IN THE PROJECT COST OF… £79,725!
CONTRACTS ARE NOW IN PLACE FOR THIS PROJECT TO COMPLETE BY SUMMER 2024. THIS MEANS THE CHURCH WILL BE CLOSED FROM SATURDAY THE 2 DECEMBER FOR PRE-CONTRACT WORKS AND THE FOLLOWING BUILDING WORKS, TO ACHIEVE THE PROJECT DESCRIBED HERE.
ALL NORMAL CHURCH ACTIVITIES AND SUNDAY 10:30AM CHURCH SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN OUR CHURCH HALLS ON SITE FOR THE DURATION.
VERY EXCITING TIMES!
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.
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.
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 10 and 11am except at our end of Knighton Road where a 2 hour limit applies between 8am and 8pm, but only on weekdays.