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WEST SEVENOAKS TEAM MINISTRY

Team Rector:  Revd Mark Bridgen (contact)

Team Vicar (with special responsibility for St Mary's, Riverhead with Dunton Green): Revd Andy Finn (contact)

In this Team Ministry, we work alongside:
St Mary's, Kippington

and St Luke's, Sevenoaks

Here at  St. Mary's Church, in the Parish of Riverhead with Dunton Green, we are committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, and Vulnerable Adults.

Our PCC has adopted the Church of England's policies and best practice on Safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England's website.

Welcome

Welcome from the church of St Mary the Virgin Riverhead in the parish of Riverhead with Dunton Green.  St Mary's in the Spring

As of 1 December 2019, we are part of the West Sevenoaks Team Ministry, working alongside St.Luke's, Sevenoaks and St.Mary's, Kippington.

As a worshipping Christian Community here in the Sevenoaks area, we seek to be a worshipping witnessing people, walking with Jesus and faithful in our life of prayer and service. We seek to serve the needs of our community here in Riverhead and Dunton Green.

A Reflective Process

As we look towards September and Church Life beginning to return to a new normal, it would be good to have an opportunity to talk and discuss about some of our hopes and fears around returning to Church life and worshipping together.

I am conscious that for many of us having been on Zoom for the last year will have felt quite a change to where you were as a parish. We have all been changed by the last couple of years – it would be wrong to say otherwise. It would be good to review what God has been teaching us as a church community over the last year and to see what God is asking of us.

There will also be the opportunity to pray together. It would be good to ask the following questions.

  • As we return what are our fears of returning to Church life?
  • What are our expectations of what Church will be like?
  • What sort of church is God asking us to be both now and, in the years, to come?

To have the opportunity to share these reflections, I have three opportunities to come together and to share your thoughts. Please feel free to join me to talk about this on:

  • 29th June between 11 and 12 – in the Church building.
  • 30th June between 2pm and 3pm – a session on Zoom. Meeting ID: 858 4244 6084 Passcode: 432558
  • 6th July between 7:30pm and 8:30pm – a session on Zoom. Meeting ID: 841 2928 0148 Passcode: 433845

If you would like to contribute to this process but are unable to make any of the above sessions then please get in touch with Andy. Let us be praying as we go through this process together.

A walk around each of our respective parishes

St Mary's Boundary MapInvitation to any from the three churches for a walk around each of our respective parishes

We felt it would be a good idea to have an opportunity to walk around our parish boundaries to enable as many in our congregations to have an enjoyable stroll, enjoy fellowship with each other and to get to know each other's parishes better.

The guide will be each of the Team Vicar's and we will start at each church (so please park there, if needed). The exact details of each route are not yet finalised.

Each evening will begin at 7pm.

  • St Luke's - Wednesday 30th of June
  • St Mary the Virgin - Monday 19th of July
  • St Mary - Wednesday 1st of September

If you are interested in seeing a map of the boundaries themselves see here (this is for St Mary's) - Just turn up!

COMBINED IN-CHURCH and ZOOM SERVICES

Since Easter Day our 9:30am Sunday services take place both in the building and are also livestreamed on Zoom.

The words for the services are here. Please do download this and join in with us either in the building or via Zoom.

The week's individual song/hymn words and readings will be sent out alongside the Weekly Newsletters and are also listed separately in the Services section.

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