St. Nicholas Church Services
Services:
Main Sunday Services:
Always 10.00am
Family Services:
First Sunday of each month, a shorter service with
songs and hymns without Holy Communion
All Welcome
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: Easter garden 2009, Easter 'bunnies', Choir 2009
