St James Day! We will be celebrating on Sunday 21st July with our 10am communion service with our brother and sisters from Holy Trinity Church Tidworth and our Children’s Church, followed by an afternoon with BBQ lunch, drinks and refreshments, and an open mic providing music. If you’d like to bring a song or story, please do come along! The more the merrier as we celebrate our church being here for more than 7 centuries!
Photo credit Jason Derrick
We are excited about our growing Children’s Church! 🤩🤩🤩
🥓🥓Bacon Buttie Morning! 🥓🥓This Saturday 18th May, come along for refreshments and a plant and toy sale in the church hall 10am-noon. 🪴🪴
With thanks to Jemima Hall who designed the poster for this event. 😊
On Holy Saturday (30th), at 8pm, we will gather around the Easter fire for an Easter Vigil. We will retell the Christian story to one another through readings and prayer as we await the rising of Jesus, the coming of the Light of the World.
This is an outdoor service in our churchyard, so please come dressed warmly and waterproofed for a time outside. You may also like to bring a folding chair. Thank you.
This Good Friday, join us at 2pm as we mark the final hour of Jesus’ life. A contemplative service, which will include a dramatised reading, come with us to the foot of the cross.
On Maundy Thursday (28th) at 6pm we will celebrate the Last Supper together, the poignant Holy Communion in the upper room before the dramatic events of Good Friday unfold. We will also strip the sanctuary to represent the grief and emptiness of the coming few days. All are welcome.
This Holy Week, our wooden cross will remain outside the church, and you are invited to add daffodils to it to remember a loved one. The cross will be beautified, even in our loss. We continue to pray for all those who grieve and all those who have gone to heaven ahead of us.
This Sunday (24th) is Palm Sunday! For all who are able, our service starts at the Market Cross on the High Street of Ludgershall at 10am, (outside The Queen’s Head pub) and we will sing and walk across to the church where the service will continue.
If you are not able to walk with us, please feel free to await us in church and we will join you!
We will be marking the events of Easter with a series of different services both here at St James and at our sister church Holy Trinity Church Tidworth. Please refer to our schedule on the picture below. All are welcome at any or all of them, as we celebrate the climax of the Christian year.
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held at 6pm on Sunday 11th February, when we will review the past year and look ahead to the next with the election of our PCC members and church wardens. Reports on areas of church life over the past year are available in the church for reading in advance. All are welcome to join us as we think and pray together but only those on the electoral roll can vote, so if you need to register on the electoral roll as a member of St James Church please message us or contact church warden Julie Walker for a form. Thank you!
St James', Ludgershall and Faberstown 