Sunday Services
• Holy Communion at 8am: a short, said communion service.
• Parish Communion at 9.30am: a sung eucharist.
• All Age Service at 3.30pm: term time only, an informal family friendly service. The Together service is held held three times a month and Messy Church the other Sunday.
• Other services, where everybody joins together for one main service, are held from time to time.
Music
• Music plays an important part in the services on Sundays, at festivals and special days during the year and sometimes at weddings and funerals.
• The Organist/Choir Director plays our fine three-manual Bishop Organ and directs our Choir.
Other Services
• Throughout the Church or Christian Year on Sundays or the appropriate weekdays we celebrate different parts of the Christian faith. This divides the year into a series of seasons, each having its own mood, theological emphases, etc. which is shown in different ways, one of which is varying the church colours. See the page Colours of the Christian Year.
• Morning Office is generally said at 9am on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and Communion is generally celebrated on Wednesdays at 9.30am.
• Additional services, including Evensongs and sometimes Songs of Praise with other churches, are held from time to time.
Preparing for Services
• Supporting the Services is very important in preparing for a service and tidying away afterwards.
• Servers, Welcomers, Bellringers, Flower Arrangers, Cleaners and Parish Breakfast.
• Service Garments, Church Textiles and Church Plate are all used to enhance the services
Find out more
• The History of St James's Services shows some of what happened from when records began up until 2017. The Annual Parochial Church Meeting Reports show the annual reports from most teams and groups since then. (Scroll down the document of the year you are interested in to find the report you want)
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Together Service |
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