Welcome to the Bridge Group Parish

We are a group of five rural church congregations joined as one single parish. All churches are within a few miles south of Canterbury and are overseen by our Vicar, Reverend Estella Last.

Upcoming Services

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Parish Diary

You can now view our digital diary online by clicking on the link above.

Upcoming Services

Service details and readings for April 2024

31^st March	Easter Sunday	Acts 10.34-43; Corinthians 15.1-11; Mark 16.1-8	8am Communion St Mary’s Nackington 10am Parish Communion St Mary’s Lower Hardres
7^th April	2^nd Sunday of Easter	Acts 4.32-35; Psalm 133; 1 John 1.1-2.2; John 20.19-31	8am BCP Communion St Mary’s, Nackington 10am Songs of Praise Easter Celebration with Communion and Easter Egg Hunt St Peter’s Bekesbourne 6pm Choral Evensong (Come and Sing from 4pm) St Peter’s Bridge
14^th April	3^rd Sunday of Easter	Acts 3.12-19; Luke 24.36b-48	10 am Communion at St Peter’s Bridge
21^st April	4^th Sunday of Easter	Acts 4.5-12; John 10.11-18	9.30 Morning Prayer at St Mary’s Nackington 10am Traditional Sung Holy Communion at St Mary’s Patrixbourne 4pm All Age Family Service at St Peter’s Bridge
28^th April	5^th Sunday of Easter	Acts 8.26-40; John 15.1-8	10am Communion at St Mary’s Lower Hardres
5^th May (BH Weekend)	6^th Sunday of Easter	Acts 10.44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5.1-6; John 15.9-17	8am BCP Communion St Mary’s, Nackington 10am Songs of Praise St Peter’s Bekesbourne 6pm Choral Evensong (Come and Sing from 4pm) St Peter’s Bridge

Safeguarding

As a Parish we take Safeguarding our community very seriously. Safeguarding issues can be raised by speaking to the following people:

Safeguarding Co-ordinator: Rev. Estella Last 01227 206272 email: estellalast@gmail.com

Safeguarding Officer: Rosemary Whatley via the office on 01227 206272 email: bridgeoffice23@gmail.com

Churchwardens: Evelyn Andrews, Laurence Dunderdale, Carol Day, Sue Isard, Nicola Fry, Andrea Nicholson, Pauline Pritchard, Scilla Wright, Daphne Reece.

The Parish Safeguarding Policy can be found by clicking the link above.

Online Giving

Our churches rely heavily on donations made each week via our collections and through our regular giving. You can set up a regular payment through our Parish Giving Scheme.

Or You can now donate buy clicking on the link to our giving page https://givealittle.co/campaigns/50a9529f-4dc5-4e6e-a429-ce51883d637b

Thank you.

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Notices

Your Church in your village – how you can get involved

On 24^th April at our Annual Meeting we will share our Annual Report for the Year 2023 and think about the future of our Church community. There are a number of vacancies on the PCC and some churchwarden vacancies too. If you would like to know more about what being on the PCC involves please speak to Rev’d Estella or Rev’d Miriam.

Dates for your Diaries

Thursday 25 April 7pm An entertaining talk "Gardens Great & Small" by Dick Bolton at Parsonage Barn, Nackington, all proceeds in aid of the St Mary's Nackington. Refreshments!

Saturday 11^th May 10.30am Canterbury Cathedral Service of Celebration marking the 30^th Anniversary of the ordination of Women Priests in canterbury Cathedral. Rev’d Estella is preaching at this service. This service is open to anyone who would like to attend and there will be tea and cake after the service – please register your attendance here https://canterburydiocese.org/calendar/1069

12-18^th May Christian Aid Week Please look out for notices about fundraising events, activities and envelopes and support it you can. If you can help with planning, organising or delivering please let Jean Barber know as soon as possible.

Friday 17^th May 7.30pm Wine and Wisdom at Bekesbourne Village Hall organised by the Friends of Bekesbourne Church. Tickets £5 Bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Going ‘Contactless’ – Can you help?
We have just found out that we have been successful in an application to benefit from a Diocesan Scheme providing devices for churches to receive contactless donations. We already have a device that works in St Peter’s Bridge but the new device we will get through this grant application will work in any of our churches as it does not require wifi or a data signal. We now need some people to attend training in the use of the device so that we can make this available on Sundays and at weddings, funerals and baptisms. If you can help please get in touch with Estella and she will let you have the details for the training.

Revision of Electoral Roll

The Electoral roll of The Bridge Group Parish will be revised between Sunday 24^th March and Sunday 7^th April. Anyone wishing to be added or removed from the roll should speak to their churchwarden for a form. After the revision, a copy of the Roll will be published by the Parochial Church Council in each Church for at least 14 days and a copy of the Roll will be available for inspection on a reasonable request being made to the Council.

FOODBANK DONATIONS.

Prior to Christmas, everyone has been generously giving to Foodbank. During January donations tend to drop off a bit - just when demand increases. Please continue to give what you can throughout January (and 2024) . Any donations of (in date - 3months hence) of tins/packets/toiletries etc can be left in the Foodbank Bins in both St. Peter's Bridge or St. Mary's Patrixbourne.