A reminder that our Lent Group does not start tomorrow (when our quiz is running) but will start next Thursday evening 4th March, at 7:30pm. The title of the sessions is Music in Worship, and no prior knowledge is needed, just come ready to share thoughts and ideas as part of the discussion led by Rev’d Tim and Rev’d Jimmy. All welcome.
Join us for worship on this first Sunday in Lent. We will be online on our Facebook page, and on Castledown FM at 10am. There will also be Winter Worship, a short in person service in the churchyard, also at 10am. We look forward to welcoming you.
More good news! Our local volunteers and Pharmacy have had a successful first day running a new vaccination centre in the Memorial Hall! Well done, everyone, and thank you!
🥾🥾🥾Church Walk Cancelled🥾🥾🥾 Just a note to say unfortunately we can’t do our usual monthly church walk this Saturday due the the current government restrictions, but we are looking forward to starting these walks back up again as soon as we can. Sorry, and thanks!
A reminder of the Sunday morning service options we have available:
The radio/fb morning service will be broadcast by our friends at Castledown FM at 10am, and you can find a service sheet at this link so you can follow along at home: https://stjamesludgershall.com/service-sheets/
The Winter Worship service will take place in our churchyard, also at 10am. It might snow, so wrap up warm for this shortened form Service which will last 10-15mins!
However you choose to join us, we look forward to welcoming you. If you would like to support the ministry of the church financially, more info can be found on our website at https://stjamesludgershall.com/donations/ – thank you!
We have started to compile our photos of weddings that have taken place in St James. They will be on display along with the records of Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals as soon as we are able to open our Church fully.
If you have a photo of your wedding at St James, or maybe one of your relatives, perhaps you would consider letting me take a copy of your photo, or perhaps you could email it to me at suewilliams588@gmail.com or phone 01264 791487.
In March 2020, we raised our Union flag as a symbol of the church’s continued presence and love for our community during the difficulties of the pandemic, and it has flown from our church tower ever since. Recently, we noticed it had become worn and weathered, and a parishioner came forward to pay for its replacement. Whilst we are all feeling tired, Jesus is always renewing us as part of His kingdom, so we felt it was important that our flag also be renewed, as part of our continued commitment to love and care here in Ludgershall and Faberstown, as a reflection of the love God has for us all. Thank you to Revd Errol for blessing the new flag at our service yesterday.
We only managed to take a couple of photos of the volunteers who have helped out with the coronavirus vaccinations locally over the last two Fridays (because we were just too busy!) but thank you to all of the church and community volunteers and also to the staff of the Castle Practice in Tidworth and Ludgershall (and I think the GP Practice in Amesbury was working with us too).
It’s brilliant that so many local people have been vaccinated already and I know all the volunteers were delighted to be able to help in our own small way by managing the traffic and the parking. Thank you also to the Tidworth Leisure Centre for hosting and for those staff who helped out too.
I also discovered this morning that some cathedrals have been drafted in to help with this national vaccination program. So thank you @salisburycathedral @dioceseofsalisbury and @lichfieldcathedral @lichfielddiocese as well! I don’t know if this is happening right across the country, but it’s great that our diocese is doing it and it’s so good that we’re not the only ones. As the vision statement for the C of E says we’re trying to be “a Christian presence in every community” and it’s really good to see that we’re not the only ones who believe that helping with the COVID vaccinations, with church volunteers working alongside community volunteers, is part of the Church’s mission!
Our current Sunday morning service options continue to be on offer this Sunday:
The radio/fb morning service will be broadcast by our friends at Castledown FM at 10am, and you can find a service sheet at this link so you can follow along at home: https://stjamesludgershall.com/service-sheets/
The Winter Worship service will take place in our churchyard, also at 10am. Wrap up warm for this shortened form Service which will last 10-15mins.
However you choose to join us, we look forward to welcoming you. If you would like to support the ministry of the church financially, more info can be found on our website at https://stjamesludgershall.com/donations/ – thank you!
