St Albans Church, Forest Town NG19 0ED

07/06/2026

Please save the date 20th June, to pop into our Water Aid coffee morning. It’s free entry but we’re raising funds for this important work. Refreshments, cakes, raffle, games and information about the charity. Any donation small or large will be very gratefully received.

Please share this post with your friends and neighbours if you can ❤️

07/06/2026

07/06/2026

This week in brief:

Week beginning 7th June

Wednesday 10am Midweek Communion

Thursday 10am Drop In
7pm Bible study

Sunday 9.30am Communion

Have a lovely week ❤️🙏🏼

05/06/2026

Sometimes it really feels hectic but I do love my choir ❤️

Our concert is fast approaching now!
Contact me for tickets!

04/06/2026

Yesterday at the St Albans Forest Town Welcome Group we had a brilliant talk by Jac (3rd from left) about the Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance. We were proud to have raised over £340 for this very good cause.

31/05/2026

DATES FOR JUNE
SERVICES

3rd 10am Mid-week communion
7th 9.30am Cafe Church
10th 10am Mid-week communion
14th 9.30am Parish communion
6pm Aidan's confirmation at St Edmunds, Mansfield Woodhouse
17th 10am Mid-week communion
21st 9.30am Parish communion
11.30am Baptisms
24th 10am Mid-week communion
28th 9.30am Parish communion

Other Dates
3rd 2pm Welcome Group
17th 1.30pm Bereavement Group
20th 10am Water Aid coffee morning
24th 1.30pm Prayer Group
4th/11th/18th/25th
10am Drop In
7pm Bible study at the Vicarage

31/05/2026

A MESSAGE FROM PHILIP

TOGETHER WE STAND
One of the leisure books I read recently was a light-hearted look at the golden age of the LP. It mentioned many times how music was a shared experience. Today it is all much more solitary as so many seem imprisoned by headphones. On a more serious note more and more are scrapping funerals for so called pure cremation. There has been a huge move from doing things together to doing them on your own. This can even apply to prayer. Many still pray but on their own.
It used to be said that, "The family that prays together stays together." Praying together strengthens a church. It is Jesus' people , meeting together in his name. Think of Matthew 18 v19-20, "Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them." Hanging out with Jesus is the greatest honour but we need help and guidance about how to pray. Prayer draws us into the life of the Trinity. In Romans 8 v26-7, Paul says, "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God."