Events & Activities
Please also see our upcoming events, weekly activities and Sunday services pages for regular church activities.
Special Sunday Service with Annual Church Meeting (APCM) and Hot Lunch
Event:
‘Sunday Service’, Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) & Hot Lunch
This will be a normal Sunday Service followed by a short meeting and then……a delicious Hot Lunch!
Please come along and join us!
Further Information
The Spring APCM service (Annual Parochial Church Meeting) is always really important and we are making the most of this year’s event by getting an update on the church’s vision across Stroud deanery and seeing how those ideas might benefit our Woodchester community – We want to play our part.
Starting at the normal time of 11.00, this morning’s short service of morning worship will be centred around the new strategy and vision coming out of recent cross-deanery discussions. This will be followed by a welcome cup of coffee before we canter through essential APCM business – electing church wardens, PCC members, etc – finishing with a delicious hot lunch – a chance to relax, spend time together as a church family and discuss any & all ideas for putting the deanery’s ideas into practice in Woodchester.
Our hot lunch will be coordinated by some of the Lunch with Friends organisers but we will have sign-up sheets for you in church – to make sure we know who is coming and to share the cooking as much as we can.
Expected close: 1.30pm approx
PLEASE COME AND JOIN US ON THIS IMPORTANT SUNDAY
Date & Time:
Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm - extended to 1:30pm approx for the APCM and Hot Lunch
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service - Morning Worship
Event:
Morning Worship
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Easter Day - Sunday Family Service with Holy Communion & Easter egg hunt
Event:
Easter Day Sunday Family Service
This will be a joyful service for all the family and include Holy Communion and an Easter Egg Hunt!
Please come and join us!
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Good Friday Service - the journey to the cross - the crucifixion in words & music
Event:
Good Friday special service
a quiet, contemplative service with words & music, focussing on the journey to the cross and its resonance in our faith today
Date & Time:
Good Friday
10:00am - 11:00am
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Palm Sunday - Joint Benefice Sunday Service
Event:
Palm Sunday ‘Sunday Service’
This will be a Joint Benefice Service at ST.Mary’s Church Woodchester
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service - with Holy Commumion
Event:
‘Sunday Service’ with Holy Communion
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service - Mothering Sunday - All Age Worship
Event:
This is our Mothering Sunday Service
All are welcome - young and old
Date & Time:
Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service with Holy Communion
Event:
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Ash Wednesday - evening service
Event:
‘Ash Wednesday - evening service’
Date & Time:
Wednesday Evening
7:30pm to 8:30pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service - All age worship
Event:
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Sunday Service - Holy Trinity, Brimscombe - ‘Light in the Darkness’
Event:
‘Sunday Service’ - ‘Light in the Darkness’
Acknowledging the darkness of grief, pain and loss and praying for our communities, this will be our last Christmas Service this season.
There will also be opportunities for time in quiet setting and to leave messages and prayers.
Date & Time:
Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
Open daily, 8am-6pm
Holy Trinity, The Roundabouts, Brimscombe, Stroud, GL5 2PA
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Christmas Day 10:00 am - Praise Service - for families and children, but everyone of any age is very welcome!
Event:
‘Christmas Day Morning Service for families and children’
Note - service starts at 10:00am
Date & Time:
Wednesday 24th December 2024
10:00am - 10:45 am approx
Further Information:
Please come along on Christmas morning for this short service of joy and happiness to celebrate the birth of Jesus
Children and adults of all ages are very welcome. There will be some activities etc for children at the back of the church
Please stay for a tea or coffee or soft drink, cake and a chat after the service if you can
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Carols by Candlelight Christmas Eve Service - for families and children, but everyone of any age is very welcome!
Event:
‘Carols by Candlelight Service’
for both adults and children
Date & Time:
Wednesday 24th December 2024
6:30pm - 8:00pm approx
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Christmas Crib Service - mainly for younger children and their families, but everyone of any age is very welcome!
Event:
‘Christmas Crib Service’
Date & Time:
Wednesday 24th December 2024
3pm - about 3:45pm
Further Information:
This will be a short service in which the last carol will be sung by candlelight.
We invite youngsters to dress up as shepherds, kings, angels or an animal.
We have lots of dressing up clothes in church.
Please stay for refreshments after the service
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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‘Longest Night’ Service
Event:
Longest Night Service
Date & Time:
21st December
4:00pm to 5:00pm TO BE CONFIRMED
Further Information
This year we are not holding an All Souls service in Woodchester as All Souls falls on the Lee Abbey weekend. However, we are holding a ‘Longest night’ service on 21st December, "The Longest night is a special service, held on the longest night of the year when everything can feel dark. We might feel like sadness, grief or loss has no place in the often exuberant Christmas festivities. But this is a more reflective Christmas Carol service, especially for anyone for whom this might be a difficult time of year.
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Thanksgiving Service for the life of John Hale
Event:
Thanksgiving Service for the life of John Hale
All Wellcome
Date & Time:
Thurs 20th November
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Further Information:
A service to celebrate the life of John Hale. There will be family flowers only and donations will be gratefully received for 'The Brain Tumour Charity'.
All are welcome to come and give thanks for the life of this lovely man who did so much for our church and who will be so very much missed.
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Remembrance Sunday Services
Event:
Remembrance Sunday Services
At Woodchester War Memorial and St.Mary’s Church (see below)
Date & Time:
10:50am - 11:05am - short Remembrance Service at Woodchester War Memorial
10:55am quiet reflection in St.Mary’s Curch
11:15am - 12:00am Remembrance Service in St.Mary’s Church
Location:
Woodchester War Memorial, jnct of Southfield Rd. & Station Rd. Location here
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Special Benefice Sunday Service & Lunch - Swedish Guests
Event:
A special Benefice ‘Sunday Service’
We will be welcoming a number of Swedish guests from our Swedish link parish in Näsby Fellingsbro to our service this morning
This will be followed immediately by a bring and share lunch
Please come along and meet our Swedish friends and share a lunch with us
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Harvest Service & Baptism
Event:
This will be our annual Harvest Service
We will also have a Baptism during the service
Harvest Giving Information
We will be celebrating Harvest to THANK GOD for his many blessings.
As a token of our thanks we’ll be collecting dry and tinned goods to donate to wonderful local charities like the Stroud Foodbank.
The Foodbank does fantastic work providing a few day’s supplies to local people and families who suddenly find themselves in a crisis. They can’t deal with fresh produce, so the most useful things we can provide are:
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Tinned Ham & Corned Beef
Fruit Squash
Coffee
Shampoo & Conditioner
Laundry Liquid
Financial donations are also always welcomed by the Foodbank if you prefer. Please give generously
Baptism Information
We will also be celebrating the baptism of baby Harriet Eva Humphries, please do pray for Harriet, her parents Will and Emily, the family and godparents. It will be a day of real rejoicing.
Date & Time:
Every Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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Joint Benefice Sunday ‘Cafe Service’ - Long Table, Brimscombe Mills
Event:
Joint Benefice Sunday ‘Cafe Service’
Date & Time:
Sunday Morning
10:30am - 12pm
Further Information:
Come along for 10:30am for coffee and cakes (service starts at 11:00am)
This is a special ‘café service’ – reflecting on our current sermon series on Scripture together and looking forward.
There will be time to gather together across all three churches, to bring all our collective voices together in worship and to pray, learn and discuss together.
Location:
The Long Table, Brimscombe Mills, Brimscombe Hill, Brimscombe, Stroud GL5 2QN
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Sunday Service - Guest speaker and shared lunch
Event:
‘Sunday Service’ - Holy Communion service with guest speaker followed by fellowship lunch
Dave Cooling, a speaker from Tearfund, will be sharing about the exciting Community Transformation work that their local churches are supporting in different communities and countries across Africa (and that we are helping to fund)
There will be a shared lunch immediately following the service
Date & Time:
Sunday Morning
11am - 12pm
Location:
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road, North Woodchester, Stroud, GL5 5PD
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