News and Events for St Mary's Church, Theydon Bois
CHILDREN'S TRAIL
Members of the West Essex Arts Society have produced a children's trail for St Mary's church. You are invited to print out the attached trail document and have a go.
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS FOR NOTICES
Please send your submissions and all service details for the notice sheet to notices@theydonparishes.org.
Please note the new deadline for the weekly notice sheet. Could all submissions please be sent by Tuesday at 5.00p.m.
In the Theydon Parishes, we welcome children and adults to join the church through Baptism, either in our main services or on occasion in special services. To inquire about booking a baptism, please contact Sarah Bowen using the Benefice office email or phone number in the first instance.
SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS AT HOLY COMMUNION
For any who need it, gluten free bread is available for Communion on request.
PRAYER
One of the most powerful things that followers of Jesus Christ can do is to pray for matters or people which concern us, James wrote to the early Church "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord" (James 5.14). During our online services on Zoom, there is an opportunity to make a prayer request for yourself (or for someone else with their consent) using the chat function. There are also prayer boards where requests can be made in each of the parishes.
WEDDINGS
St Mary’s extend a warm welcome to couples seeking to be married.
To find out more information please view the full details on our Special Events page by clicking here.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY PARISH PASS
The Benefice Office now holds a parish passes for each church in our group. Each pass can be used on 6 occasions, and allows a group of up for 4 people entry for free each time. Passes can be borrowed from Sarah Bowen.
CONTACTS IN THE UNITED BENEFICE
Email contacts for the Vicar and Benefice Administrator have changed, please use vicar@theydonparishes.org or office@theydonparishes.org to contact John or Sarah. Our Vicar is trying to be more disciplined in using email, and will not have access to email on the move, so sometimes it may take a little longer for a reply to be sent.