Church services
We meet on Sundays at 11am. Everyone is welcome to join us.
During the major refurbishment of St Mary’s church, our services will be held at The Friend’s Meeting House, High Street, Stebbing CM6 3SE.
Everyone is really welcome to join us.
The 1st & 3rd Sundays
Of each month are generally informal Holy Communions. These aim to be friendly services of worship, with a mix of old and new music, including an opportunity for prayer ministry after the service. The communion service follows modern liturgy.*
2nd Sunday
The service on the Second Sunday of the month is often a lay led service of either morning prayer or informal worship.* These aim to be friendly services of worship, with a mix of old and new music, including an opportunity for prayer ministry after the service.
4th Sunday
The service on the 4th Sunday is usually an informal, New Wine style service, including an opportunity for prayer ministry after the service.
5th Sundays
5th Sundays are Benefice services. These move around The Pilgrim Parishes.
*During our services at The Friend’s meeting House, there will be toys and activities available for families to use. In addition, some Sundays there will be Bible stories and simple craft activities for a part of the UT.
- Baptisms
- Weddings
- Funerals
If you are interested in being baptised or having your child baptised, we recommend that you come along to one of our services so that you can see what our services are like, if you wish to book a baptism, please contact our church administrator and one of our priests will contact you.
Our baptisms usually take place within a main Sunday service. Our priest in charge Sue Hurley will be able to tell you when baptisms might take place.
These are some of the questions you might have https://www.churchofengland.org/life-events/christenings/christening-faqs
If you are considering getting married or having a wedding blessing at St Mary’s we recommend that you visit this website which may answer many of your questions: www.yourchurchwedding.org
If you would like to talk about booking a wedding, blessing or renewal of vows please contact our parish administrator.