The Worship Working Group

The Worship Working Group is responsible for worship in our 11 churches.  In conjunction with the clergy, it arranges the service pattern ensuring that there is minimal duplication and that there is a variety of worship opportunities across our parishes every month.

In a grouping of 11 churches with only 2 full time priests, with some help from some in other employment and some retired it is now impossible to have services led by a priest in each of our churches every week, therefore every parish now has to have some services led by lay people; the Worship Working Group helps with identifying suitable people, training and encouraging them.  It provides resources for worship leading and we will be putting documents and links on this part of the website to make things easier to access.

There are a variety of services on offer in these parishes, our regular services include traditional Book of Common Prayer, more contemporary Communion services, less formal all age worship (with & without Communion) along with Morning and Evening weekday prayers some of which are reflective and contemplative.  On a more occasional basis there are Taizé services, Compline, Songs of Praise and others.  We hope that there is something there for you, no matter where you find yourself on your spiritual journey.

Members are currently;  Douglas Dettmer, Julia Dallen, David Boxall, Peter Colebrook, Charlotte Dyer, Catriona Fursdon, Gwynneth Keehner, Shirley Madge, Guy Sheppard [Facilitator] & Pheobe Taverner.

  Latest minutes of the working group

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Other useful documents include: