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COMMUNITY PROGRAMME

 

November 2025
Fri 7th 7.30pm Our Human Instrument – illustrated talk by Dr Philip Kilner
Sat 8th 10am The Act of Consecration for the Dead for Andreas Maendl
11am Coffee and then a memorial gathering for Andreas
7.30pm A Celebration of Instruments – Human and Musical
Sun 9th 11am Social time with coffee and bring and share cake
  3.30pm Remembrance Gathering – ending with a Close of Day Service
Fri 15th 7pm Lighthearted Evening
Sun 16th 11.30am That the Good endure – priestly contribution on the fire in the White Room  with Willem Boonstoppel
  6.30-8.30pm Fire in the Temple – Stage reading with Laurie Portocarrero and Glen Williamson
 Sat 22nd 10.30am Offering Service in St Brides Hall 
  3pm Making new Advent stars for the church with Chia-Li 
 Sun 23rd 11.30am It all adds up; the story of people and mathematics – talk by Jean-Marie Falcone
Sat 29th 5pm Gathering for the Dead
Sun 30th 11.30am The Advent Adventure Introduction by the priests; followed by communal preparation for the Advent Spiral
  4pm Advent Spiral

December 2025
Sun 7th 11.30am The Spiritual Biography of Dag Hammerskjoeld  with Carmel Iveson 
Fri 12th 2pm Shepherds’ Play Performance
Sun 14th 11.30am The Intercession of the Virgin or the Protective Veil of the Mother God – a Russian Icon Talk by Chris Duffield 
Fri 19th 4pm Shepherds’ Play Performance
7.30pm Shepherds’ Play Performance
Sat 20th 9am Act of Consecration of Man in German
Sun 21st  11.30am Advent Gathering 
   

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 Advent 2025

 

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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.