Next Messy Church
Friday 21st February
3.30pm-5.15pm in the Wilkinson Hall
Friday 21st February
3.30pm-5.15pm in the Wilkinson Hall
Pew Sheet
For up-to-date information of Services, events, contact details etc, please use link below to open our recent pew sheet.
For up-to-date information of Services, events, contact details etc, please use link below to open our recent pew sheet.
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News From St George’s Church
St George’s, Toddington, hosted a Shoebox Service on 17th November at 4pm gathering in the shoeboxes with ‘Love in a box’ to be sent abroad for children who have so little. It is so wonderful to see the care with which the boxes are packed – they will be so joyfully received by the children abroad. Thank you so much for your contributions.
The church is growing and constantly seeking new ways to develop. Our fundraising and social events continue apace and we enjoy hosting the monthly Ploughmans Lunches and Coffee Mornings and many other sales, gatherings and cake stalls, keen to raise funds to pay our way and to cover the costs of heating and running the Church and Hall. Whilst we are making good progress to meet our Parish Share payments we still have a way to go to hit target, but we are encouraged. Everyone on the PCC has worked so hard this year to raise funds, to build the church in many different ways, and to support me as Minister. I am so indebted to them all. Do come along and meet us. You are sure to receive a warm, friendly welcome.
During the year we have moved forward with great leaps inside the building. The new organ console is now installed and we are enjoying the new life which this brings to our worship music and are looking to organise some lunch time concerts in the New Year, so watch this space! This would not have been possible without your generosity over the years to the organ fund. Thank you!
Our new boilers help to make the church feel warmer and more inviting. The new roof alarm protects the roof with the cost being met by grant funding and the generous support of the Friends of St George’s. Our next project is to action draught exclusion around the entrance doors and to fit curtains to shut out some of the draughts at the doors - with the kind help of Rita Stares who has offered to make the curtains. Have you also seen the beautiful new altar frontal on the small nave altar which Rita designed and crafted?
We are keen for work to start on the repair to the fallen carving in the North Porch but await the builder’s start date. In the meantime, work has been underway to tidy up the churchyard, to plant new plants and bulbs and it looks wonderful.
We are pleased to now have regular flower arrangements in Church donated by kind volunteers, and love hosting the Messy Church families each month. There is a sense of growing energy within the Church family as we gather and grow together. We very much look forward to welcoming you over the festive Christmas time as we share the joy and love of Jesus Christ together.
Messy Church meets on the third Friday of each month from 3.30-5.30pm at Wilkinson Hall and offers friendly, informal time together for children from 0 years upwards, with a caring adult, doing crafts and activities, singing, and hearing a story about Jesus, followed by a tea. All welcome.
We are very pleased to welcome Rebecca Caird, our new family outreach worker (who is working within the Quintet of churches). She along with Rev'd Linda and Fern from HUGS, spent special ‘prayer space’ time with the children of St George’s lower school recently and has also be launching a new group for young people 9-13 years. We met at the Rectory for the first time on Tuesday 12th November for Pizza and to chat about future meeting and met again two weeks later with 12 children. Please phone 07715 603557 or email revdtoddington@gmail.com for more information and to let us know if your child would like to join the group. It runs from 5.30pm until 7pm.
Our ‘Churches Together’ ‘Worship Word and Wonder’ service was held on Sunday 24th November at St George’s Toddington, and we were delighted to host visiting speaker Gram Seed ‘who heads up Sowing Seeds Ministries bringing the message and love of Christ to young prisoners and ex offenders’ and who shared his own amazing testimony of God’s transformational love. Worship was led by Hope Church worship band. Look out for details of our next Informal Worship services.
God bless
Rev'd Linda Washington
St George’s, Toddington, hosted a Shoebox Service on 17th November at 4pm gathering in the shoeboxes with ‘Love in a box’ to be sent abroad for children who have so little. It is so wonderful to see the care with which the boxes are packed – they will be so joyfully received by the children abroad. Thank you so much for your contributions.
The church is growing and constantly seeking new ways to develop. Our fundraising and social events continue apace and we enjoy hosting the monthly Ploughmans Lunches and Coffee Mornings and many other sales, gatherings and cake stalls, keen to raise funds to pay our way and to cover the costs of heating and running the Church and Hall. Whilst we are making good progress to meet our Parish Share payments we still have a way to go to hit target, but we are encouraged. Everyone on the PCC has worked so hard this year to raise funds, to build the church in many different ways, and to support me as Minister. I am so indebted to them all. Do come along and meet us. You are sure to receive a warm, friendly welcome.
During the year we have moved forward with great leaps inside the building. The new organ console is now installed and we are enjoying the new life which this brings to our worship music and are looking to organise some lunch time concerts in the New Year, so watch this space! This would not have been possible without your generosity over the years to the organ fund. Thank you!
Our new boilers help to make the church feel warmer and more inviting. The new roof alarm protects the roof with the cost being met by grant funding and the generous support of the Friends of St George’s. Our next project is to action draught exclusion around the entrance doors and to fit curtains to shut out some of the draughts at the doors - with the kind help of Rita Stares who has offered to make the curtains. Have you also seen the beautiful new altar frontal on the small nave altar which Rita designed and crafted?
We are keen for work to start on the repair to the fallen carving in the North Porch but await the builder’s start date. In the meantime, work has been underway to tidy up the churchyard, to plant new plants and bulbs and it looks wonderful.
We are pleased to now have regular flower arrangements in Church donated by kind volunteers, and love hosting the Messy Church families each month. There is a sense of growing energy within the Church family as we gather and grow together. We very much look forward to welcoming you over the festive Christmas time as we share the joy and love of Jesus Christ together.
Messy Church meets on the third Friday of each month from 3.30-5.30pm at Wilkinson Hall and offers friendly, informal time together for children from 0 years upwards, with a caring adult, doing crafts and activities, singing, and hearing a story about Jesus, followed by a tea. All welcome.
We are very pleased to welcome Rebecca Caird, our new family outreach worker (who is working within the Quintet of churches). She along with Rev'd Linda and Fern from HUGS, spent special ‘prayer space’ time with the children of St George’s lower school recently and has also be launching a new group for young people 9-13 years. We met at the Rectory for the first time on Tuesday 12th November for Pizza and to chat about future meeting and met again two weeks later with 12 children. Please phone 07715 603557 or email revdtoddington@gmail.com for more information and to let us know if your child would like to join the group. It runs from 5.30pm until 7pm.
Our ‘Churches Together’ ‘Worship Word and Wonder’ service was held on Sunday 24th November at St George’s Toddington, and we were delighted to host visiting speaker Gram Seed ‘who heads up Sowing Seeds Ministries bringing the message and love of Christ to young prisoners and ex offenders’ and who shared his own amazing testimony of God’s transformational love. Worship was led by Hope Church worship band. Look out for details of our next Informal Worship services.
God bless
Rev'd Linda Washington
How can we help you?
Perhaps you're visiting our website because you're looking for information about Sunday worship in Toddington?
Or perhaps you'd like to know more about the Christian faith, or you're wondering whether it would be possible to have your baby christened at St George's?
Perhaps you're hoping to be married in church?
Or, you might be faced with the daunting task of arranging a funeral for a loved one, in which case we'll do all we can to help you create a fitting and dignified service at St George's, or at the Crematorium.
You'll find helpful information about worship including weddings, baptisms or funerals on this website.
For all Wedding, Baptism & Funeral enquiries, please use the following contact details:-
Rev Linda Washington (Priest in Charge): 01525 714442 or email: revdtoddington@gmail.com
For information about parish life in general, then have a look at our 'What's On' page. Here you'll find more details about adult learning courses, exploration days for children, fundraising and social events. You'll also be able to access our weekly pew sheet on our Worship - Sunday Services page.
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