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02/06/2026

🫟Messy Church🫟

Here’s just some of the crafts & activities we have at St.Giles Messy Church.
Our super hero village volunteers come up with very special themes each month.

An all-age iintergenerational form of Christian worship for families who may not attend traditional services.
It’s here to WELCOME YOU.
No typical sermon but a monthly theme focussing on
Hands on - Creativity, Nature & the world around us,
Community Hospitality.
A celebration of family friendship in Graffham and surrounding villages.

Rev Vivien is supported by experienced Teachers, and a wonderful extraordinary team of helpers, bakers who bring a wealth of knowledge and nurture to each session.

Stories and arts/ crafts and games and songs.
With a sharing sit down Supper together for children and their parents and guardians.

Would you like to experience some time ‘unplugged’ It’s a fully immersive experience embracing support for each other to learn and grow & have lots of fun together.

30/05/2026

World Environment Day 2026
Friday 5th June

We are all aiming to be green Anglicans.

🪷Please also come to sharing of the ‘Peoples Emergency Briefing’ film on Saturday 13th June at the Empire Hall at 11am

This is a 50 minute public information film bringing together leading experts insights on the climate and nature crisis.
It is supported by the Church of England and the National Trust hosted by naturalist Chris Peckham. It includes credible, hopeful responses as well as presenting the National implications which our children will need to negotiate.

“Its message to care for climate, people, nature is so urgently needed, not least so that we might live and act as Jesus would have us be”.

24/05/2026

Lovely view of St.Giles Friday evening 22 May with Luca Greenslade’s visiting Bellringing Band.

19/05/2026

Thy Kingdom Come.
We ask God to lead us in prayer as we join together in prayer globally from Ascension to Pentecost a simple faithful practice, choose five people you would love to know the love of Jesus. Write their names down, each day return to their names and hold them in prayer. Ask God to guide them bless them and draw near to them. Small daily faithfulness can change lives. Thy Kingdom Come.

15/05/2026

Ascension Sunday Eucharist Service 10.30am

‘Ascension Day Sunday reminds us that Christ reigns with God.

We celebrate Jesus’s victorious return to his place at God’s right hand. Before he ascended, Jesus told his disciples that they would not be left alone.

*He promised the gift of the Holy Spirit, God’s presence with us to guide, strengthen and renew 🕊️

Everyone is Welcome at St. Giles
with refreshments afterwards.

14/05/2026

FEAST DAY OF ASCENSION
14th May 2026 The fortieth day of the fifty-day season of Eastertide.

Today we arrive at the day of Ascension, the feast day in which we remember and celebrate the Glorious Ascension of Jesus.

Pictured here our Ascension Day Eucharist in the churchyard Blessed with some sunshine ☀️

Ascension Day marks the moment when Jesus was taken up into heaven in full view of his disciples.
‘Jesus, just as you breathed on your disciples and gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit, would you breathe on me again. (John20:22)
In the quiet of this moment, I receive your spirit. As Jesus ascends to Heaven, his Church is only the beginning. As Tom Wright says, “The story continues, and (I am) a part of it!* I think ahead to my day, I invite the Holy Spirit to empower me. My home, I ask Jesus to make me a witness there, a little wider I think about my neighbours my friends my village, my town and widely about my country and beyond. Is there anywhere you are sending me, Lord to be your witness?

Happy Ascension Day

Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone Part 1 (spck,2008) p3
Luke 24 Jesus parting from his disciples and blessing them.

11/05/2026

Ginny Barrett was presented with a beautiful cherry tree on Sunday 10th May 2026 by Rev. Vivien on behalf of all the congregation and St. Giles parishioners thanking her for her support and time caring for St.Giles Church and the churchyards, looking after so many visitors at weddings & funerals, being a member of the choir a friend to so many in the village and an excellent Church Warden. ✝️
‘The Cherry tree symbolises the beauty, fragility the impermanence of life, with its brief spring blossom signifying renewal and a reminder to live in the present moment. Represents love, femininity and resilience’.
We wish her well stepping boldly into her next adventures 💚

09/05/2026

Today is the Feast of ‘Julian of Norwich’ a 14th Century Christian Mystic Julian lived as an anchoress besides St. Julian’s Church in Norwich. From her small cell she prayed wrote and offered council to the people you came to her seeking comfort and wisdom, overtime she became something of a Norwich icon. A quiet and deeply trusted presence in the city.
During a serious illness of 30 years she experienced a series of religious visions and she later reflected on these in Revelations of Divine Love, which is (incredibly) the earliest surviving book written in English by a woman.

Despite her deep spirituality and insightful understanding she returns to a simple pure devotion to Christ.
She writes “God who is almighty, all wise and all good, for he is true rest”.
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well”.
A profound comforting phrase
a spiritual reassurance, that despite present suffering, sin, or worldly chaos, Divine Love will ultimately make everything right. ♥️

Address

St Giles Church
Graffham
GU280NJ

Telephone

+441798867199

Website

http://www.stgilesgraffham.org/

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