The Chapel on the Hill (and the Christmas Fayre)

The Chapel on the Hill is the new building opening up in our parish. New, but also old, because it's re-opening on the site of the old Christ Church building.

The big church with a huge spire that you can see from Forest Hill station: that's now 70% flats, but 30% worship space. We're now almost in: above you can see John going up the staircase and below Father Alan and Father John taking tape measurements to check on new fittings.

On the ground floor are various rooms that will be available for hire. Do you need an office? A room for a toddler group? A yoga centre? Above is a lovely worship space. Think about us and drop us an email.

But then there's also the usual stuff happening at Church.

Our big Christmas Fayre is this coming Saturday

Saturday 6th December 12pm-3pm.

See you there!

Fr Robert

PS The Fayre is at the parish church, not the Chapel on the Hill

Coming up, a healing service, a Christmas Fayre

This coming Sunday may only be November 30th in most people's calendar, but it is the first day of the Church's year! Advent Sunday.
We'll be lighting our advent candle in church, because now the wait begins in which we look forward to the entrance of God into the world at Christmas.

We'll also be holding a Healing Service at 4pm this Sunday.

Look out for our Christmas Fayre, on Saturday December 6th between 12pm and 3pm.
Come and pick up some fantastic bargains!

Fr Robert

Back from Walsingham

A party of 27 pilgrims, well, 28 if you include Tessa, a very young pilgrim, went from St George Christ Church St Paul up to Walsingham last weekend, and had a beautiful time.

To the right you see our group doing the Stations of the Cross and then further right, Pat and Sheila on the walk out towards the Slipper Chapel.

Going on pilgrimage is a very special time: it's not just a holiday, because the place and context lift all the conversations one has out into a deeper, more meaningful realm.

I'm sure all that went have returned refreshed and inspired in some way, even though Walsingham also contains some of the quirkier parts of the Anglican tradition. People this year were especially amused by the feet disappearing into the ceiling of the Ascension side chapel.

Wonderful, all the same.

Do join us this coming Sunday for our service celebrating "Christ the King": we'll have a 'bring and share' lunch afterwards: bring something very simple to share and we'll all chat.

Also, have the Christmas Fayre in your diaries: Sat 6th December.

Time to pick up some belting bargains in these tough times.

God bless,

Father Robert

At the going down of the sun...

Please join us for our Remembrance Day service this coming Sunday at 10am. (9th November).
It will be a beautiful occasion, with a silence at 11am, and in some senses chimes in with the theme of bringing the dead before God as we have done at All Saints and All Souls.

At our All Souls service, the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed, 130 people were present, remembering over 400 people, who were special to them. It was deeply moving as people came to light candles and the sight of the candles burning into the night, long after people had left the church, will remain will me for a long time.

Of course, at Remembrance Day, we especially remember those who have died in war, and this year, we'll be remembering what it was like to live through the Second World War through an interview with one of our parishioners, Bud, who was evacuated out of London when he was a boy.

Fr Robert