Welcome to St. Nicholas Church
We welcome you to St. Nicholas Church in the Parish of Laindon with Dunton and hope that you enjoy your visit to our website.
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St. Nicholas is a Church of England Church in the Diocese of Chelmsford
which says:
" Our passion is Jesus, proclaiming and living out God's
love for all people. We aspire to be a transforming presence in every
community, open and welcoming to all, and serving all through faithful
people, prayer
and worship, visionary leadership and liberating gifts."
Rt. Revd. John
Gladwin, Bishop of Chelmsford.
Important notice: Although there is still scaffolding in the church, work has not started and Sunday services will again take place in the church from Sunday 7th February 2010.
Message from Diane:
It is lovely being back
in Church for our Sunday services again, even if we are sharing the
building with the
scaffolding.
Because
the whole ceiling in the Nave and Lady Chapel needs to be replaced
(rather
than the small repair job we had originally thought was needed)
the cost has escalated to nearly £40,000. We will need to do
a lot of fund raising over the coming months, not just to cover the
cost
of repairing the ceiling but also the urgent repairs that are needed
to
the bell tower and the disabled access. We have applied for grant
funding towards the cost of the ceiling and hope to hear whether
or not we have
been successful at the beginning of March. In the meantime it is
business as usual in the Church.
We do have a number of weddings booked at St. Nicholas over the
next few weeks and so we will be decorating the scaffolding to make
our Church look as attractive
as possible for these special days, and think the happy couples will be pleasantly
surprised to see what a difference some flowers and ribbons can make to scaffolding,
to have a sneak preview look on the Gallery
page.
We will continue to hold St. Nicholas Nippers at The Manor Mission (next
to Lidl’s) on Tuesday mornings until the scaffolding is removed and the works
are completed, and will be having our Sunday services at Laindon Park School
once the actual building works start but I will let you know when that happens.
Meanwhile, I look forward to seeing you at St. Nicholas on Sundays.
God bless,
Diane
Images: Views of the church
