Welcome
Welcome to St. Mary's Church online. We hope that our website highlights our wide variety of worship, fellowship and services. You can read a bit about our church on this site, and hopefully visit us. We are fully inclusive and welcome everybody no matter what. We would love to meet you and share with you what we do as a church family in the community of Chartham.
Come and join us!!
Our Mission
At St. Mary's we seek to be an active church, praying, listening, working and reaching out in love to God, each other, our community and the wider world.
We hope you can visit us at one of our services. Please feel free to come along and say hello to one of the clergy, churchwardens or other church members.
Weddings
Our church offers a lovely setting for your special day, please read more to find out how we can help.
Services
Services are normally held in the main Church, but are currently being held online.
Sunday Morning service is at 10am with an occasional 8am Book of Common Prayer Communion service as announced below.
We also have additional services at special times and festivals; these are also announced below.
Chartham St Mary Safeguarding. Important to us; vital for you and your loved ones; keeping everyone safe.
News and Services
14th April 2020
Dear friends
just to let you know Emily will be leading us in a hymn tomorrow (12/4), Jesus Christ is Risen Today.
The words are attached or it's 267 in the hymn book you forgot to hand in after one of our services.
In addition to the live hymn tomorrow, you might want to catch up on YouTube. Emily has uploaded the hymn and also the introit that we would have been singing on Easter Sunday in church.
She also has a number of other songs there you might like enjoy singing along to.
Thanks too, to Emily and Jake Weekes who have recorded for us This Joyful Eastertide, and Thine be the Glory for our celebration - also My Song is Love Unknown for our service of Compline tonight.
Keep going and keep praying and may God bless us all and see us through safely
Phil
Sunday Talks
Transcripts of the talks from the online Sunday Services are now in the process of being placed on this website and they can be found here.
Forthcoming Online Services
Thursday 16th April 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 19th April
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 23rd April 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 26th April
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 30th April 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 3rd May
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 7th May 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 10th May
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 14th May 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 17th May
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 21st May 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 24th May
Holy Communion 10:00
Thursday 28th May 8:00 (service starts at 8:10)
Compline - Night Prayers
Sunday 31st May
Holy Communion 10:00
Contact us for an invite and details of how to join them.
Collects and Communion Prayers can be found on the Church of England website.
Canterbury Cathedral offer morning and evening prayer daily, plus Eucharist and Compline on Sundays - all online. Full details are on their website.
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Hello and.....
.....welcome to the website of St. Mary's Church, Chartham. Please do have a look round at all we have to offer you. This site is updated most weeks so do come back regularly for all your St Marys news and events. Why not bookmark us in your browser now?
A Warm Welcome
There will always be a warm welcome from the clergy, churchwarden and the congregation at St Marys @ Chartham. We normally have regular services (currently online) and we would love to welcome you along - aside from the current circumstances we are there each and every Sunday............
Site Update - 14th April 2020
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Phils Sunday Talks - now available
Have you any comments?
St Marys Church now has a comments and questions form at the bottom of this homepage. If you have any information, feedback or questions about St Marys Church or the website, please drop us a line as we would love to hear from you.
If you have any events taking place in or around the church that could be added to this site then please contact us via this form as well.
Whats Happening at St Marys
Coffee and Cake Concerts - CANCELLED
With sincere apologies, the Coffee and Cake Concerts for March and April have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This will be reviewed after that time.
Services moved online
Please feel free to join us for our Sunday Services which are currently being held online via video conferencing. To avoid unwelcome interruptions to our services, access codes are issued via an e-mail mailing list. If you would like to join this mailing list please use the Contact Us box on this page.
Canterbury Cathedral also offer regular daily services online via YouTube and details of these can be found via this link on their web-page.
Catching Lives - Chartham String Band
The Chartham String Band (formed of our very own Rev'd Phil Brown and his wife Marjorie and Jake & Emily Weekes) have recorded a song in aid of Catching Lives, our local charity which helps the homeless.
You can hear and buy it here and be able to support this worthwhile charity
VE 75th Anniversary
Put it in your diaries now; there is due to be an event in the church on Friday 8th May (Bank Holiday Friday) between 2 & 5pm to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
"Make it St Marys" in 2020
When life begins to return to normal, why not make 2020 the year to pop along to St Marys on a Sunday and see what goes on? We have a family Service every first Sunday, Morning Praise every third Sunday and Family Communions all the other Sundays - all these services are at 10am.
We also have a modern Evening Praise service every last Sunday at 5pm.
We have Sunday School most Sundays running alongside the 10am service.
We love socialising too - with coffee after main services and other events throughout the year.
Looking for help.....
We are always looking for volunteers to help in and around the church. If you could help us, then let us know. People we are currently looking for are:
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Health and Safety Officer
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Cleaners
Please contact us if you can help.
Patrons of St Marys
- Funding to keep the church in your community -
We are launching the "Patrons of St Marys Church" to help fund the future of the church in the community of Chartham. By the end of 2018 the church will be deficit by £15000 (income projected as £56000 and expenditure of £71000 - much of which goes to the Church of England) and this cannot continue indefinitely. The church receives no money from central government or the Church of England to keep going and is now looking tho the wider community to ensure the church remains open.
A leaflet has been produced and has been distributed throughout the village but you can download your own PDF copy from HERE, and a Standing Order/Gift Aid form from HERE. Its never too late to become a St Marys Patron!
Sunday School
Sunday School restarted during 2016 and is going strong. If you would like to find out more, then please come along to the Sunday Service at 10am - or get in touch with us via the Contact Us form towards the bottom of this page.
Evening Praise
Our new contemporary Sunday Evening Praise services started on 25th November and have become very popular. These are now a regular event on the last Sunday of the month at 5pm - with refreshments beforehand at 4.30pm. The next one will be advised.
Chartham Parish Magazine
Chartham Parish Magazine is published once per month all year on behalf of the Parochial Church Council. All articles are welcomed and can be submitted by e-mail here.
The magazine is sold in village retail outlets at 70p per issue or can be delivered to your door for £7 per year payable each January, Use the "CONTACT US" box below for more details.
N.B. Publication and distribution is currently suspended due to the current situation.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Rev'd Phil Brown - Click HERE
Churchwarden - Click HERE
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Robin Slowe
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Cathy Arnold
or use the CONTACT US form
"The end of the rainbow", May 2019
With thanks to Stuart Dodd and his freelance business, Inochi Pictures
Click Here for High Resolution version (Warning: large file)
Foodbank Bin
We keep a yellow bin in church for contributions towards the Canterbury Foodbank and all contributions are gratefully recieved.
If you have a problem transporting donations to church and would like them collected, call Maggie who can help: 738738
Thanks to all who have contributed.
St Marys on Facebook
We have our very own Facebook Page. Why not drop in have a look there and check in?
We also have an events page with all the very latest news & pictures on events taking place at the Church.
St Marys Church, Chartham - Events on Facebook.
The Churches at Upper Hardres and Stelling Minnis
St Peter & Paul, Upper Hardres
Friends of St. Mary's
Visit our Friends page here.
The Friends of St Marys have a quarterly sales stand after the Sunday Service on the first Sundays in March , June, September and December. We will be selling Friends merchandise and home-made cakes.
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2017 Flower Festival Video (Youtube) - "Biblical Dreams & Visions"
Flower Festival videos from 2011 and 2014 are still online on Youtube and via links on our Audio Visual Page.
<----- Church Grotesque and Friend having a chat. Photo courtesy of Wendy Williams, our Parish Magazine editor. Do you know the history/background of the grotesque? Please do Contact Us below as we'd love to know.
Any Comments/Questions?
Please feel free to contact us with any comments or questions about St Marys Church or the website that you may have. It will be forwarded to to the correct person for information and/or reply.
Both these pictures are used by permission of, and with thanks to, local company AM Marketing
