School children create Temporary Angels Window
March 26, 2026 A colourful new tissue paper ‘Angels Window’ created by local schoolchildren and community volunteers is now on display at St Laurence Church in Stroud. The artwork fills the space of the original window and highlights plans to restore the historic building and protect it for the future. The temporary paper window was […]
Holy Week at Your Stroud Parish Churches
Palm Sunday Team Service:
Weekly Newsletter 18.3.2026
Where have you seen hope this week? It might be in the warmer weather, in the people around you, or in something small that caught your attention. It can be hard to see hope at times, but it is often there if we look for it. This week, I have seen it in many places […]
Mothering Sunday 15th March
Join us at 9.30am at St Matthew’s Church, Cainscross as we celebrate Mothering Sunday together. This is a special service for the whole community as we give thanks for the love, care, and encouragement we receive from those who nurture us in life and faith. During the service we’ll be sharing posies of flowers as […]
Thursday Afternoon Lent Group: 1.30pm at The Church of The Holy Spirit, Paganhill.
Lent Groups Thursday afternoon Lent Group at The church of the Holy Spirit, Paganhill. The Stroud Team Lent Group continues this Thursday. Meeting at 1.30pm in the Church of The Holy Spirit in Paganhill,we continue our reflections with the Desert Fathers and Mothers. This week we are exploring the wisdom of Syncletica of Alexandria.
One Week to Go: Songs for the Soul Set to Lift the Roof for Local Young People
One Week to Go: Songs for the Soul Set to Lift the Roof for Local Young People With just one week to go, excitement is building for Songs for the Soul — a powerful evening of live music in support of The Door Youth Project. This special fundraising concert will bring together two of the county’s most […]
Mothering Sunday at St John’s, Randwick
Join us for a service of celebration, and design and create a beautiful posy with our fower-arranger extraordinaire, Margaret.
Weekly Newsletter 26.2.2026 …… From the Desert to Stroud.
From the Desert to Stroud I’ve just come back from the Thursday afternoon Lent Course at the church in Paganhill. We continued exploring the wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. It feels slightly improbable that voices from the fourth-century Egyptian wilderness should have anything to say to us in 2026 — and yet they […]
Weekly Letter 25th January 2026
I don’t know about you but I find myself still greeting people with a cheerful “Happy New Year!” — even though, by late January, the moment has probably passed… but habits die hard! So, as this is my first Weekly Email of 2026, I’m allowing myself one final New Year greeting — and then I […]