James Turk, Team Vicar
James is a Gloucestershire man or a “Glostonian”. He was born near Gloucester, went to school in Gloucester, met Sarah, his wife, in Gloucester, worked in Gloucester, trained for the Ministry in Gloucester and now is a Team Vicar for Stroud Churches……… in Gloucestershire. James left school at 15 and got an apprenticeship to become […]
Sacred Music Festival
Advance notice that this years Sacred Music Festival will be on Saturday 9th July in and around St Laurence Church, Stroud. Between 18-00 and 20-00 all the performers are in exile including Maya Youseff, from Syria, Eastern Strings and Naba and an ensemble of Christian, Jewish and Muslim musicians from Israel, Sudan and Europe. […]
Exclusive interviews with the new Team Vicar, James Turk and Stephen Saville
Exclusive interview with Rev James Turk and the Rev Stephen Saville, new or forthcoming members of the Stroud Team. James’s interview will be published on Friday In the meantime a note from James “It is such a privilege to be your Team Vicar here in the Stroud Team Ministry! My wife, Sarah, and I are […]
Helen Berhane- East African Gospel Singer
Helen Berhane is an Eritrean Christian Gospel Singer who is coming to talk about her story and testimony of faith as well as perform some of her music at Holy Trinity in Stroud on the 2nd July at 7-30. Shortly after the release of an album of her Christian music, she was arrested and tortured […]
Helping children in our communities thrive
Do you feel passionate about helping children in our communities to thrive? Read With Me is a Gloucestershire organisation, which was set up to ensure that in the future every child will move to secondary school able to read well. Children who are unable to read properly at the age of 7 never really catch […]
Fruitfulness on the Front Line
‘Fruitfulness on the Frontline’ is a short course that helps us see and imagine how and where we can live more purposefully for God and make a positive difference to other people in our day to day lives. We watch real life stories and a presentation on each of 6 different types of ‘fruit’ we […]
Songs of Fortitude
On Saturday May 7 2022, Acapellies Community Choir performed Songs of Fortitude for the first time in St Laurence’s Church, Stroud. Through word-of-mouth and a few posters around the town 160 people heard the concert over two half-hour shows. They were invited to close their eyes as the 36-strong choir sang around them in a […]
Bishop visits St Laurence
On Shrove Tuesday, Bishop Rachel visited the parish church of St. Laurence, Stroud. The evening began with welcome refreshments and background live music. Once seated, we were introduced to the Bishop and there followed a question and answer session, where members of the audience put forward their questions. The atmosphere was very relaxed and as […]
Carol reflects on bereavement support
I think my fear about helping people who had been recently bereaved when I started, was doubting my inability to say or do the right thing. I soon learned though, that provided I was natural, there is no need to rehearse what to say, the main thing is to be sincere and to be brief. […]
Readings and Questions for Sunday 2 January 2022
John 1 v 1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the […]