Welcome

 

 

 

 

 Interactive Community Calendar

COMMUNITY PROGRAMME

The Act of Consecration on Saturdays will be cancelled from 26th July until 11th October inclusive. It will be resumed on 18th October.

The Act of Consecration on Tuesdays 7.30am will be cancelled from 29th July until 30th Sept inclusive. It will be resumed on 7th October.

September 2025
Sun 21st 11.30am Visit to Chartres talks part 2
Sat 27th 10-4pm Natural Singing Workshop with Cileke Angenet
Sat 27th 7pm Kaspar Hauser Reading with Michael Chase – retiring collection
Sun 28th 11.30am The Creed: The Healing Spirit  Jean-Marie Falcone
Michaelmas Day
Mon 29th 10am Michaelmas Act of Consecration of Man
  11.15am Michaelmas seasonal prayer contemplation with Carmel Iveson

October 2025
Sat 4th 4pm Concert with Duo Karadys (fundraising concert; 50% to Ukraine aid and 50% to church)
Sun 5th  11.30am Induction of the new priests Willem Boonstoppel and Lucienne van Bergenhenegowen
Sat 11th 10.30am Offering Service
Sun 12th 11.30am Lucienne and Willem introduce themselves – short biography
Sun 19th 11.30am Festivals of the Future: Whitsun, John and Michaelmas – introduction and conversation
Sat 25th 5pm Gathering for the Dead
   
   

For details of any of the above events please email stroudchristiancommunity@gmail.com or call us on 01453 762926

Bristol Congregation 

Services in Bristol are held by a visiting priest from Stroud and take place around 3 times a month. Click here to see the programme details. 20a St Johns Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2EX
Tel. 07469 277546 (chapel)

Bristol programme from Easter til St John’s Tide

Bristol Easter letter 2025

 

Subscribe to News and Content up-dates

We continue to send out a weekly Community News on Wednesdays as well as a weekly Saturday Support to prepare for the Sundays with sermons and other content. If you would like to receive these lease contact us on stroudchristiancommunity@gmail.com . You can always unsubscribe by simply sending a brief note.

Funeral Fund

We have created a special fund for those who wish to pay for their funerals ‘in advance’ so to speak. The idea is that one pays in an amount to the fund to cover the anticipated cost of the funeral (currently +- £4000) and any additional sum to become a special sacrament donation to the church in the event of the funeral. It remains a loan for which there is a signed agreement with the church which can be found here. The agreement can be cancelled and the money withdrawn with 2 month’s notice if need be. The idea is that the congregation takes on all the financial dealings with the Funeral directors and crematorium etc, which liberates the family from having to do so, and it serves as a loan which earns interest for the church and which the church can use for capital development until the time the money is needed. For instance this financed all the alterations in the annex to allow for the building project a few years ago. We currently have a good number of members with money in the fund. If you are interested in pursuing this further contact one of the priests or Paul Abel who manages the fund, via the church email stroudchristiancommunity@gmail.com

                                          Make a donation

We are a not-for-profit organisation. If you wish to support the church please donate to the below account. All donations will be gratefully received. Do let us know if you are eligible for Gift Aid.

  The Christian Community in Stroud        Sort code – 30-98-29         a/c no – 00091757

St Bride’s Fund

We are beginning to really enjoy the versatility of our new spaces and also St Bride’s Hall. We always said we would like to transform St Bride’s into a worthy and practical multi-purpose space for ourselves and others who rent. In this way we could do our best to support the social and cultural life of our community and beyond. With this in mind a small group – Ian Bailey, Piet Blok and Aaron Mirkin have made some initial steps towards making this happen. Please read the full letter here. Donations can be made into our regular church Lloyds account using the donate button above with the reference ‘St Brides’. Good news is, thanks to the fund, we already have the new blinds, the new loop system for hard-of-hearing, new projector screen and backdrop rails. – and most recently are about to have the old roof finally cleaned of the thick moss. Next in our sights is to upgrade the access between the hall and the kitchen and build a new porch roof outside the Annex. Thanks to all who have donated to the fund so far.

Our new church

Our new church was officially opened and consecrated in October 2019 and continues to be a source of renewed joy and strength for our sacramental work.

Video of the new church – Here is a video interview about our new church that was very generously and kindly done for us by Peter Richardson in December 2019. He also did the Spring Fair video that is linked on our website. He is one of the co-founders of Stroud Community TV. 

Here also is a recent article written in the De Zeen architecture magazine describing the innovative architecture of our new church.

Here is another article from ‘Architecture Today’ describing our new building.

and…

Our new building was shortlisted for the 2021 Structural Awards
We came in as runners up!

Awarded for excellence in the structural design of projects with a construction cost of less than three million pounds.

The Christian Community in Great Britain is a registered charity in England & Wales

Charity number 210029.