Our annual Remembrance Sunday service had to be cancelled, due to the Covid lockdown, but a short time of private prayer in the church was enjoyed by a healthy number from the parish. The roll of honour was called by Henry Blacksell, and at 11am we stood in silence as the Last Post rang out, […]
After a delay of some 6 months or more, the annual meetings of the PCC, the Fabric Trust and the Village Hall committee took place at last on the evening of 29th October, by zoom. Our amazing secretary Prue came over to Ningwood with Chloe, and your IT guru/Churchwarden managed to make the system work […]
Welcome to our fifth Newsletter, well, I say fifth, but I did count the update on the works on the East Window as our fourth. The Friends of Shalfleet Church have now completed its first year, and many thanks to all those who set up a standing order last year, the subscriptions for the coming […]
It was a huge pleasure to be back in church on Sunday for a lovely service of Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer. After months and months of lockdown, at long last we were back in our beautiful church, and a hearty congregation of 24 enjoyed this timeless service, which our friend Peter Johnson […]
Welcome to our third newsletter; it’s been a bit slow coming as a result of the challenges that we are all facing due to the current COVID 19 lockdown. It’s worrying times for us all, but we are fortunate in many ways that most of us have access to gardens and that West Wight is […]
Dear all, I suppose we should not be surprised, but the Church is responding well to the growth in Zoom (and similar) technology, and even in the West Wight we can do it! Our Easter Sunday service from Brighstone had over 50 participants, and the plan is to keep the format going, so do be […]
During the coronavirus outbreak, the Bishop of Portsmouth’s team have been sending out an email to all the parishes, updating us on the situation and what resources are available. It is certainly the strangest Easter period that any of us will have lived through, but here are a few things that might be of interest […]
We are so sorry not to be meeting together on Sunday as Passiontide begins, and I do hope you are all coping in these difficult times. Rev Linda Porter has been in touch with the following message for us all: On Sunday morning Bishop Christopher will be celebrating the eucharist at Bishopsgrove at 8 a.m. […]