1 John 4:16b-21 So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.  Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, …

St Luke 18:1-8 Then Jesus  told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.  He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.  In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me …

Matthew 1:18-23 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.  Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned …

In the Sunday morning service on 17 December, we will be performing Fay Rowland’s ‘Not a Very Silent Night’, a ‘Pop-Up Nativity’. This is a new venture for us and will involve lots of music, readings and audience participation! You may remember ‘The People’s Passion’ from Easter a few years ago – this will look at …

The offertory at all our Christmas services will once again be donated to the work of the Merton Winter Night Shelter. The collections will be taken at four services: Readings & Carols by Candlelight, Christingle & Communion by Candlelight (on Christmas Eve) and at the Christmas morning family service.

Romans 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to …

On the first Sunday of Advent these prayers were collected from the congregation.  Please join us in using them during Advent. We pray for peace throughout the world. Peace in Bethlehem, Palestine and Israel. Please free all hostages. I pray for peace in the world. May your healing love be with all those who are …

Romans 14:1-12 Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarrelling over opinions.  Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.  Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgement on those who eat; for God has welcomed them.  …

Monday, 11 December 2023  St John 5:19-24 Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; …

Our Service of Carols & Readings by Candlelight will be held on Sunday 10 December at 6.30pm. Do join us for a favourite Christmas Service re-telling the Christmas story in readings and music.   An opportunity to join the choir in singing well-known Christmas carols, and to hear some perhaps less familiar music too. Following …