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WELCOME
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Visitors
If you are going to
visit our church , then we will gladly welcome you to our worship, and hope
that you will come back regularly. Please sign our visitor book in the church
and stay after the service to join us for informal fellowship over coffee/tea.
Every week there is a cafe, selling hot and cold refreshments, sweets ,
biscuits etc. If you are a newcomer to the area , please give us your name and
address, by writing it on a piece of paper and handing it to any church
official.
For Parents with Babies
There is a creche ,
who can look after your young one during the church service . Alternatively,
feel free to take your child in and out of the service , as needed.
Hearing Aids
The church is
fitted with an induction loop system. If you have a hearing aid with a switch
for use with the telephone, it will work with the induction loop, by switching
to the T position.
Large Print Bibles
Large Print Bibles
are available if you would prefer one.
Personal Help
The Minister's
Vestry is usually held on a Thursday evening between 7:00pm and 8:00pm, when he
can be consulted about services of baptism , or or blessing , thanksgiving and
dedication of children; marriage, joining the church , questions of faith or
other personal problems Anyone wishing to see the minister can also make an
appointment with him after the church service, or phone him on 771-1240. Every
member of the parish is allocated an 'elder' who may be consulted concerning
any problem. Please ask at the main door if you do not know who your elder is.
In the entrance hall to the main church, there are leaflets offering pastoral
guidance for problems times; please also read the notices on the wall about
general church and social activities.
Suggestions
There is a box for
suggestions in the entrance hall; write down an issue or question you would
like explored in a future sermon or service, and the minister will try to
include it soon, or give us ideas about how we can change and develop the
church for the future. Additionally this box is also to tell us about people
needing prayer help: just put the name of the person you are concerned about in
the box, and we will include them in the prayers of the Minister and the church
prayer and worship group.