Our main Sunday service takes place at 10.00, and all are welcome. We follow a modern and accessible Common Worship order of service, with Junior Church for children and young people roughly every other week: for details, please see the individual listings on the 'Services and Events' page.

Holy Communion for the Third Sunday in Advent: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo. Junior Church takes place at the same time in the hall.

First reading: James 5. 7 – 10
Gospel: Matthew 11. 2 –11

The early Christians believed that the Second Coming was both literal and imminent; that within their lifetimes, or at least in the near future, Christ would return in transformative glory. While their expectations were not fulfilled as they anticipated, they were right about the importance of waiting, which they understood as a practice of positive preparation for what is to come. This belief is foreshadowed in the life of John the Baptist, who was not merely waiting for the promised Messiah but actively preparing for him.

In keeping with this theme of waiting and preparation, Junior Church will be busy rehearsing their Nativity Play, to be performed on Sunday 21 December.

The Cub and Beaver sections of our G46 Scout Group meet on Tuesday evenings: for details, please see the attachment below. The Group's HQ is behind the Church Hall.

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The G46 Scouts meet on Friday evenings, in their HQ behind the Church Hall. For further details, please see the attachment below.

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Family Communion for the fourth Sunday of Advent: celebrant the Revd Tola Badejo.
The Junior Church Nativity Play will be a central part of this service.

First reading: Romans 1. 1 – 7
Gospel: Matthew 1. 18 – 25

The familiarity of the Christmas story can lead us to forget how extraordinary it is, and above all, how much trust God placed in human goodness and courage. The annual re-enactment of the story by children can perhaps restore our sense of wonder - the Nativity Play centres on a child, and is performed by children, but it conveys the most adult of messages.

This is our annual Carol Service in the traditional format, focused on well-known, older carols. The image above is part of a working drawing made by Tirzah Garwood in 1938 for a Nativity transparency used at another St Nicholas's Church, at Castle Hedingham in Essex; its joyful simplicity is particularly poignant in view of its date, on the eve of a war in which Garwood lost her husband and became seriously ill herself. The whole drawing is attached.

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This celebration is built around the symbolism of the Christingle, a decorated orange which represents Christ's engagement with the world.. While the service is focused on children, it certainly isn't only for children, and for some this is the annual event that most fully captures the spirit and meaning of Christmas. The Christingle collection is always donated to the Church of England Children's Society.