A message from our Rector, Kate
Happy New Year to you! I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas time, taking you into this new year with hope and joy. At our Team Celebration on Sunday I made this announcement; As I approach the 6th anniversary of being alongside you all here in Stroud, I have so much to be thankful […]
Carols Across The Valley. 6pm 18th December
The Ark Christmas Party
The Ark is our weekly parent and toddler group in the hall in the Shambles, in the centre of town. Open from 9.30 to 1pm every Tuesday, its free and serves a selection of drinks and snacks for a reasonable price. Next Tuesday, 19th is our Christmas Party with songs, stories and a very special […]
Advent and Christmas at your Stroud Parish Churches.
Welcome to the ‘one stop’ for all the information you will need for all the Advent and Christmas services and events happening across your churches in December and January. Below you will find all times and venues for Advent Carols, Christmas Carols Sunday and Christmas services and all other events. There is so much to […]
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!