Church Life in Lockdown
In light of the guidance from London councils and Bishop Sarah, we will be worshipping only online for the time being. The church will be closed for Private Prayer during this lockdown. To join us for live-stream services please use our Facebook page.
Homelessness Sunday/today 10am. Our Eucharist today includes reflections from Lenus Walker and Neil MacGregor, and Revd Richard Carter on the Sunday International Group and his work with the Helen Bamber Foundation.
Fortnightly Children’s Church/today, 4-5pm for children aged 4-12 on Zoom. For more information email sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.
Lent Study Course 2021/starts Wednesday 17 February. Water into Wine; an exploration of John’s Gospel following Stephen Verney’s book Water into Wine. Course dates: 17, 24 February, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March. For more detail please click here, and to book your place please click here. The cost for the course plus book is £20, or if you already have the book the course is £10. If you would like to pay by cheque, or to request a free place, please email sian.conway@smitf.org.
Welcome Course starting Sunday 28 February 12-1.30pm. Find out more about St Martin’s on this four week course. If you are not currently on the electoral roll and have been joining with us for worship over the past months or have a friend who would like to know more, please email sian.conway@smitf.org to register.
Silent Lent Retreat/Thursday 25-Sunday 28 February. We, the Ordinary People of the Street, drawing inspiration from the writing of Madeleine Delbrel, led by Revd Richard Carter and Revd Catherine Duce. For more detail click here and click here to book your place. Free places are available, email sian.conway@smitf.org.
Phone Prayer/Mondays, 3.30-4.15pm. Call Christian on 07846195972 or email christian.saguyan@smitf.org.
New Being With Groups. It’s not too late to sign up! Groups will be led by Jonathan and Wendy Quill, and Richard and Harry. Please speak to other congregation members who have done the recent groups or email sian.conway@smitf.org.
New online worship initiatives. We invite everyone to join with us in lighting a candle at the start of our worship to symbolise the presence of the Holy Spirit in each home, as well as in church.
Faith Companions are groups of 3-4 congregation members who commit to making contact with each other once a week through the pandemic. If you are not in a faith companions group and would like to be contact sian.conway@smitf.org.
Baptisms and Confirmations with Bishop Sarah. This has been postponed due to lockdown. If you haven’t been baptised or confirmed yet, please speak to Sally sally.hitchiner@smitf.org for more information.
Media and Wider Ministry
Sally Hitchiner will review the papers on Times Radio today from 7.30-7.50am. Click here to listen.
Sam Wells provided the Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme on Tuesday 26 January. Click here to listen again.
Catherine Duce took park in a Diocese of London webinar this week, Learning through Covid: Digital Discipleship, which you can watch here.
