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. We will continue to live-stream services online. For live-stream services please use our Facebook page or St Martin’s Digital.
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.
Churchwarden and PCC member elections/Mel Adams and Jeff Claxton have been elected as churchwardens of St Martin’s, and Tricia Sibbons and Ivan Yuen have been elected as members of the PCC of St Martin’s.
Inspired to Follow/today, 2pm. Click here to register. Session 22: The New Jerusalem. Text: Revelation 21:1-5, 9-11, 22-27, & 22:1-5. Image: ‘Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven’; central predella panel, probably by Fra Angelico, about 1423-4, NG663.1.
Fortnightly Children’s Church/Sunday 20 June, 4-5pm for children aged 4-12 on Zoom. For more information email sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.
Do you value our online services? Would you like to be part of the team that makes our Wednesday and Sunday services happen? Our growing online stewarding teams are inviting new members to join them. Full training and support given with flexible dates working with a more experienced team member. 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.
St Martin’s At Home Day/Saturday 10 July. Please click here for information about the day, tickets are now available online from our website.
Church Picnic/Sunday 11 July. 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.
Donations for a Thank You to Ally Hargreaves – Ally has worked at St Martin’s since 1987, becoming Executive Director in 2012. No one has done more to make St Martin’s the institution it is today than her. She will be leaving St Martin’s in July. We shall say farewell after the 10am service on June 27. Click here if you would like to contribute to a gift or contact Siân (sian.conway@smitf.org).
Pilgrimage to Canterbury/August 2021. The pilgrimage is a major fundraising event for the Connection at St. Martin’s to support its work, and also a spiritual journey for all. For details please contact Eugene Ling on 020 7766 5555, eugene.ling@cstm.org.uk, or visit our website.
Media and Wider Ministry
Jonathan Evens has written a feature article for Church Times this week that looks at works in churches by 20th-century émigré Jewish artists, which are now under threat. The article is based on a forthcoming conference at St John’s Waterloo called A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II on 16 June which is available to book now.
Cathy Reid Jones, member of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Limited board amongst many other roles in St Martin’s, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme on Sunday 6 June about our Beating the Bounds walking app. Click here to listen again (around 37:31).
Richard Carter took part in a lecture on pilgrimage at the British Museum in connection with the Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint exhibition. The lecture is available to watch on YouTube.
