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Advent and Christmas Services Around the Deanery

This post will be updated regularly, so please keep checking back.

Holy Trinity, Barnes

St Michael and All Angels, Barnes

Click here for full details of Christmas and Advent at St Michael and All Angels

St Mary’s, Barnes

All Saints, East Sheen

Sunday 3rd December, 4pm – The Contemporary Carol Service
Sunday 3rd December, 7pm – Advent Carol Service

St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake

Christ Church, East Sheen

St Mary Magadalene, Richmond

Sunday 3rd December, 6:30pm –  Advent Procession – a service of music and readings for Advent
Sunday 17th December, 6:30pm –  Nine Lessons and Carols
Christmas Eve, 3pm –  Christingle Service & Nativity (for the very young)
Christmas Eve, 5pm –  Christingle Service
Christmas Eve, 11:30pm –  Midnight Mass
Christmas Day, 8am –  Holy Communion
Christmas Day, 10am –  All Age Eucharist with Carols

St John the Divine, Richmond

St Matthias, Richmond

Sunday 17th December, 6:30pm –  Carols by Candlelight
Saturday 23rd December, 4pm –  Christingle Service
Christmas Eve, 9pm –  First Eucharist of Christmas
Christmas Day, 10am –  Eucharist with Carols

Holy Trinity, Richmond

For more details, click here.

St Luke’s and St Phillip and All Saints (Barn Church), Kew

St Anne’s, Kew

Sunday 3rd December, 6:30pm – Advent Carol Service
Sunday 17th December, 6:30pm –  Nine Lessons and Carols
Saturday 23rd December, 4pm –  Crib Service
Christmas Eve, 11pm –  Midnight Mass
Christmas Day, 10am –  Christmas Sung Eucharist

St Peter’s, Petersham

St Richard’s, Ham

Campaigns, Glass Door

Richmond Soup Kitchen

Matthew 25:34-40
Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? …. Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.

Update 21st December, 2023

The first two months of the Richmond Soup Kitchen have seen numbers of guests rise steadily – clearly the need is there. Equally, support for RSK has been wonderful, so here are a few highlights:

– More than £5k raised through JustGiving, 26% above target

– Retiring collections at RTM of £500 and still counting

– Orange Tree Theatre collecting tea, coffee and chocolate from theatre-goers for RSK

– £2500 donation from John Lewis’ Give a Little Love campaign

– Vegetable donations from the Kew Gardens community allotment – including 100kg pumpkin

– Regular fundraisers by Richmond Rotary

– Socks and handwarmers gifted anonymously through RTM

– At least 30 new volunteers – including monthly baking by Richmond Scouts

The team at RSK is truly grateful for the steady support from Wilma, Joe and the entire clergy team at RTM and to all of you for your wonderful, generous contributions. Have a happy, warm and safe Christmas and New Year.

Richmond Soup Kitchen needs your help!

Richmond Soup Kitchen will return this year for its third season, continuing to provide a warm meal and a friendly ear to some of the most vulnerable people in Richmond.
 
The outdoor takeaway service operates from St John the Divine, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 5.00-6.00pm between 1st November and 25th April.
 
Volunteers are needed to:
  • Bake, batch cook or make soup
  • Make basic food on the evening
  • Welcome guests
  • Collect supermarket shopping and donations
  • Write grant funding applications
  • Donate financially or fundraise
By the end of last season, the team was serving around 100 meals a week.
 
To find out more about volunteering please get in touch at richmondsoupkitchen@gmail.com or take a look at www.richmondsoupkitchen.org

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Events, Prayer

Preparing for Christmas with Study, Prayer and Exploration

Advent Reading and Groups from St Michael and All Angels, Barnes

Click here for St Michael and All Angels Advent newsletter

Advent Quiet Morning at St Mary, Barnes

Advent Compline and Reflections at St Mary’s, Barnes

Advent Course at All Saints, East Sheen

All Saints, East Sheen, are running and Advent course, reflecting on some Christmas Carols, on Mondays 4th, 11th and 18th December at 7:30pm. Please contact Rev Alex Barrow vicar.ases@gmail.com if you would like to come along and to nominate a carol.

Advent Bible Study with Kew United Benefice

The very best carols express our faith and deepen it as we sing them. We will think about the theological ideas that they contain, discuss some of the Bible passages that they draw on, and reflect on other material that is connected to them – including art and poetry.

Please email office@kewparishes.plus.com if you would like to join.

Meditations on Advent Art with Richmond Team Ministry

Richmond Team clergy are offering you three meditations on Advent Art via Zoom, on Wednesday 6th, 13th and 20th December, 8pm – 8.45pm. After each meditation Compline will be said together. Please email admin@richmondteamministry.org if you would like to join.

If you are considering a book for Advent, with daily reflections, Richmond Team suggest ‘Stick with love’ by Arun Arora. It is the Archbishop of York’s Advent Book 2023 and comes highly recommended.

Richmond Team Advent Calendar

Email Revd Anne Crawford receive daily readings, reflections and images during Advent.

Events

Hope Explored at Holy Trinity, Richmond

Holy Trinity, Richmond are running a short, three week course called Hope Explored in January, on Thursday, 4th, 11th and 18th, 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Hope Explored is a great way to consider the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and the core claims of the Christian faith. The course is open to everyone, whether you consider yourself a Christian or simply looking into matters of faith. Find out more and sign up here.

Events

Charity Concert at St Peter’s, Petersham

St Peter’s, Petersham invites you to a charity concert of excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, with the Elysian Singers and Players, directed by Sam Laughton, on Sunday 10 December at 6pm.

Tickets are £15 and you can buy them at tinyurl.com/PetershamMessiah (please ask for a receipt, which will act as your ticket, and bring it along on screen or on paper).

For further details, contact events.stpeterspetersham@gmail.com.

News

Church Life Unpacked at St Mary’s, Barnes

All welcome to find out why we do what we do in church

Questions Answered at St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene, Richmond recognised that they have people in their congregation who have joined at different life stages and have very different church or faith backgrounds. Some people have received Confirmation or First Communion preparation, but many have not. And many are coming from liturgical or Anglo-Catholic or Catholic backgrounds but lots are not.

So they decided to explore the Eucharist together. On 18th June, they took the opportunity to walk through the Choral Eucharist service and explained at each stage what it is they do each Sunday and why. In advance of the service, the congregation was ask to submit questions. There were questions on about liturgy, posture, bible readings and more and many of these were answered during the service.

You can watch the service by clicking the picture below:

Following the service, there were still unanswered questions and even more have been added. St Mary’s held another Q&A session over coffee a few weeks later and answered more questions about church life and faith.

Events

Talking about Christianity with Muslim Friends

10am-4pm, Friday 24th November 2023, St Anne’s Parish Hall, Kew Green, Kew

Dr Chris Hewer (https://chrishewer.org) will lead a day helping us understand similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam. He will focus on outlining the different models that the two faiths use and what comes to a Muslim’s mind when thinking about Christianity. The second main focus of the day will be on the way that Christian understandings of scripture and revelation differ radically from what Muslims might expect. Come and join us to reflect on what both Christians and Muslims believe, where they agree, and where they differ.

There is no charge, although donations are welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided, please bring your own packed lunch.

If you are interested, please contact Claudine McCreadie – dandcmcc@gmail.com.