Author: Stephen Barker

An Evening Service for All Souls

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You are warmly invited to our service in St Stephen’s Church, to come together with other members of our community to remember loved ones who are no longer with us.

During the service you will be welcome to light a candle and the names of loved ones will be read out. There will be times of quiet contemplation and some beautiful music sung by our choir.

Our services are always open to everyone, but if you are unable to attend in person, you can still have loved ones remembered by name.

You can ask for your loved ones to be remembered by adding their name to the list in church.

Harvest Festival

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Join us for our traditional Harvest Festival at 10.30am on Sunday 6th October 2019. A service to give thanks for the harvest with worship, prayer, and music, lasting about an hour.

During the service, donations of food and toiletries will be offered for those who are less fortunate than us.

Everyone is warmly welcome.

Ride and Stride 14th September

Posted on by Eduard Heyning

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Ride and Stride is the yearly sponsored bike ride or walk in which people all over England walk or cycle between churches, raising money to help save historic churches, chapels and meeting houses. Last year, Kent raised £116,308! The next Ride and Stride will take place on 14th September 2019, from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm. You can participate by riding/striding or by manning our church. For more information, see the Kent Ride & Stride webpage at https://www.rideandstrideuk.org/counties/kent/ or contact the local organizer, Eduard Heyning, at echeyning@hotmail.com or 07748787373.

St Stephen’s Lent Appeal – Toilet Twinning

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2.3 billion people don’t have somewhere safe and hygienic to go to the toilet. (WHO/Unicef)

Almost 1,000 children die every day from preventable diseases linked to dirty water and unsafe toilets. (UN)

663 million people live without safeChildren worldwide miss 443 million school days each year because of dirty water and poor sanitation. (UN)

The lack of a loo makes women and girls a target for sexual attack as they go to the toilet in the open, late at night.

Every year, women and girls spend 97 billion hours finding a place to go. (World Bank)

How Twinning Works

For a donation, you can twin your loo with an impoverished family’s household latrine, in a country of your choosing.  Your smallest room becomes the proud owner of a certificate, complete with a photo and GPS coordinates so you can look up your twin’s location on Google Maps.  Your donation will be used to provide clean water, basic sanitation, and hygiene education.

We aim to raise £240 to twin the Church Hall toilets this Lent – but why not twin your own loo this Lent for £60? 

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Galliard Trio: Concert in Aid of Christian Aid

Posted on by Doro Thyssen

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Christian AID Charity Event
The Galliard Trio in Concert on Saturday 30th March, 7:30pm in St Peter’s Methodist Church. Music featured includes Mozart, Bartok, Bach and Mussorgsky.
Please come and enjoy an evening of beautiful music to support this year’s Christian Aid Week (12th-18th May) events.

Tickets at £10 (£5 for students) available from Jean Barber, phone 831956 jbarber@uk2.net or Doro Thyssen phone 479164 (eve) dorothyssen@outlook.com or come and find me after church.

Tudor Performances and Worship at St Stephen’s

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Presented by the University of Kent, and returning to St Stephen’s after nearly 500 hundred years, John Bale’s inflammatory play about notorious King John is as controversial as ever. Join the Cultures of Performance research group as we workshop extracts from the play, bringing it back to life, along with some of the atmosphere of Reformation St Stephen’s. Featuring music, architectural projections, and some familiar faces from the community, the performance will explore how the play engages with the parish, Canterbury and Kent as they were in the 1540s and how they are today.

To coincide with this performance, the following Sunday, worship will be according to the Book of Common Prayer which has its roots in the sixteenth century, and accompanied by music by John Merbecke who published the Book of Common Prayer Noted in 1550, and by Thomas Tallis who’s compositions straddled the Reformation.

How can I pray?

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A week of opportunities to explore different approaches to prayer and spirituality in the Christian tradition.

Saturday 9th March to Sunday 17th March 2019

St Stephen’s Church
Hales Drive Canterbury 
CT2 7AB

Programme

Saturday 9th March 10 30 am   
Introduction to the week and the resources available
Special guest speaker Barbara Wallace, 

Sunday 10th March 6pm
Service of prayer and contemplation featuring music and poetry

Monday 11th March – Friday 15th March – 9am- 4pm
The church will be open and a variety of prayer resources available, including art materials, literature and aids to contemplation.  

Morning prayers at 9.00 am and evening prayers at 4.00 pm will be followed by a chance to discuss different approaches to the inner journey. 

There will be an hour of shared silence between 11 am and noon ending with midday prayers. 

There will be said service of Holy Communion on Wednesday at 10.15 am

A labyrinth walk, visit to a quiet garden and evening activities will be available if requested.

Sunday 17th March 4 pm 
Closing tea for participants to share experiences and discuss future prayer opportunities, followed by Choral Evensong at 6.00 pm.

This is a week of opportunities. Come to as much or as little as you find helpful.  You can use it as a Lenten retreat in everyday life or just drop in when it suits you. There is no charge and no need to register, but email {This email is obscured. Your must have javascript enabled to see it} for further information, to ask for any specific activity to be included, to be kept up to date with developments in the programme or to join in online. For updates see https://www.facebook.com/ststephenscanterbury/

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