Saturday December 9th. Reflections on Pilgrimage, with author and BBC broadcaster, Mary Colwell.

Just one week to go until multi-award winning conservationist, sacred-nature author (inc. of the acclaimed ‘Curlew Moon’) & BBC broadcaster, Mary Colwell, reflects on walking the Camino Francés during the pandemic. Surrounded by the heartening sacred-earth music of our own Matthew Heyse-Moore, a fitting sending-out from the Christmas Tree Festival to play our part in […]
Carols and Mulled Wine at St Matthew’s, Cainscross.

Join us at St Matthew’s, Cainscross, for Carols, Mulled Wine and Mince Pies. 7pm Friday December 1st.
Advent Quiet Day at St Mary’s, Painswick.

St Pauls Whiteshill, Local Craft Fayre This Weekend

Join us at this lovely craft fayre, and get some Christmas shopping in! Saturday 25th November, 1:30-4pm We have some wonderful people exhibiting at the Festival, demonstrating their skills including Bonsai, papercraft, needle felt art and model building rom cardboard. There will be some beautiful quilts on display also artwork produced by children from Whiteshill […]
Advent in Stroud: an opportunity to gather, prepare and pray

Advent Sunday falls on 3 December this year, and we will have opportunity to mark it with beautiful, and sometimes overlooked, Advent Carols in All Saints, Uplands at 4pm and St Alban’s, Parliament Street 6.30pm. Holy Trinity, Stroud – our church next to the hospital will host our Eccumenical Advent Course, this year looking at […]
Christmas Fayres Saturday 18th December

Wonderful Christmas Fayres across the churches on Saturday December 18th. Holy Trinity, Slad. 10.30-12pm St Matthew’s, Cainscross. 2-4pm How is your Christmas shopping going? Come along for opportunities to find one off gifts!
Christmas Market at St John The Baptist Church, Randwick

Children Youth and Families at S.P.C.

Children, Youth & Families Bringing the grace of the LORD, the love of Christ, and the friendship of the Holy Spirit to the youngest in our parishes. Weekly Services We are inclusive churches, meaning that everyone is welcomed equally at every service. However we know that for families sometimes “going to church” can seem more […]
Winter Tales…An Evening of Words and Music.

Le Page Ensemble Winter Tales ~ an evening of words and music. Vivaldi, Bach, Dickens, Laurie Lee, Piazzolla… Simon McBurney and the Le Page Ensemble open their book of Winter Tales. St Laurence Church, 52 High St, Stroud GL5 1AP Friday 22nd December @ 7.30 pm Tickets £20, under 18’s free of charge – but […]
Congratulations Rev Simon!

On Sunday 29th October, Reverend Simon Howell was re-licensed by Archdeacon Hilary Dawson as our Stroud Team Pioneer, solemnising his existing & evolving role – a role which has a particular responsibility for new expressions of church community life in and around Stroud.