Church Life/If you are joining us in the building please bring a face covering with you (unless exempt) and follow the social distancing measures outlined as your enter. Please see later for an update following 19 July. We will continue to live-stream services online. For live-stream services please use our Facebook page or St Martin’s Digital.
Church Opening Daily/The church is open daily 9am-5pm (apart from Tuesdays for recordings, open from 12pm on Wednesdays). We are looking forward to opening more and more throughout the summer. You are welcome to join us for Morning Prayer on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Online Worship. We invite everyone to join with us in lighting a candle at the start of our worship to symbolise the presence of the Holy Spirit in each home, as well as in church.
Prayers of Healing/available after today’s service and then weekly after the 10am Eucharist from September. Team training is on Friday 16 September 7pm on Zoom for new and existing team members.
Church Picnic/today Bring or buy lunch and blankets for our first annual church picnic in St James’s Park after the 10am service. Followed by an invitation to try out the new St Martin’s walking tour app and share a guided tour around the boundary of the parish with your friends.
Funeral of Alison Hardwick/Wednesday 14 July, 12pm All who knew Alison are welcome to attend, the service will also be livestreamed on Facebook and St Martin’s Digital.
Fortnightly Children’s Church/is now not meeting until mid-September when they will be meeting weekly on Sundays in the Ho Ming Wah Centre 12-12.45pm. For children aged 4-12 on Zoom. For more information email sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.
Baptism and Confirmation/Sunday 26 September Anyone wanting to be confirmed or baptised at St Martin’s, please get in contact ASAP with ellie.waterhouse@smitf.org.
Join a Team? Our Wednesday and Sunday services depend on teams who facilitate our online and in-the-building worship. Would you like to be a steward either in our church building or from your home? Full training and support given with flexible dates. For more information email Ellie: ellie.waterhouse@smitf.org.
Save the Date 1-6 November! To coincide with the international conference on the environment, COP26, St Martin’s will be having a cross-site festival of events to inform and inspire us all about our part to play in engaging with the environment.
Changes in place from 19 July
In line with the possibility of decreased social distancing we will be making the following changes. These will be under constant review so please check here for updates.
We will ask people to continue to wear face coverings unless except indoors.
Half of the church will still have social distanced seating in place for anyone who wishes to maintain space around them and we will maintain the one-way system for receiving Communion.
Congregational hymn singing returns – singing will be possible through face coverings.
We will continue to provide hand sanitiser on entry and before Communion for those who wish to use it.
We will continue to only offer wafers but not wine during the Eucharist.
We continue to stay in our places and share the Peace in non-physical ways.
