Month: September 2019

Members of All Saints Church were among those who gathered in Wokingham town centre last Saturday for prayers for the planet. Canon David Hodgson, Rector of All Saints Church said: “We want to stand up for climate action in solidarity with so many people across the world and we also want to pray because we … Read more

All Saints’ Rector, Canon David Hodgson, brought an environmental angle to the familiar parables of Jesus about the lost sheep and the lost coin in his sermon last Sunday. The good news of  God who searches and finds the lost gives us grounds for hope, and a motivation for action,  that the changes to our … Read more

The Associate Priest for the parish, The Reverend Hannah Higginson, is to move house later in September in order to become resident within the Montague Park housing area. This will allow Hannah to be more involved in the life of the neighbourhood there, to build relationships, and to be part of the development of the … Read more

All Saints Parochial Church Council spent time at its September meeting discussing the climate emergency. The Council committed to renewing its efforts to reduce carbon emissions of the church activities and also to encourage all parishioners in the community to redouble efforts to reduce emissions and to minimise waste and pollution. Council members agreed that … Read more

Leaders of the children’s and youth groups which meet on Sunday mornings at All Saints Church were presented to the congregation at Parish Communion on 8th September and prayers were said for them. This was the opening Sunday of the new term for Junior Church and X-plore groups which meet in The Cornerstone during the … Read more

The second sermon in the Season of Creation at All Saints Church, given by the Reverend Colin James, was a searching message urging us to respond to the planetary emergency, based on God’s call to us to choose life. God’s chief characteristic is to show mercy and pity and yet human beings, having been given … Read more

Tuesday 3rd September. The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Reverend Steven Croft, arrived at All Saints Church today on his pilgrimage through Berkshire parishes. He had started his walk from St George’s Owlsmoor and passed through the parish churches of  Crowthorne and St Sebastian in Nine Nile Ride, Wokingham Without. Whilst at All Saints the … Read more

Congregation members at All Saints Church heard a call to work to restore nature rather than record its decline, from Associate Priest The Reverend Hannah Higginson in her sermon on Jesus’ teaching in Luke’s gospel.  The sermon was the first one in this year’ s Season of Creation (Creation Time) for which the theme is … Read more

The Season of Creation (Creation Time) opened at services at All Saints Church Wokingham with a celebration of the biodiversity of its own churchyard. During the service churchyard steward, John Smith,  gave a talk highlighting the biodiversity of the 4-acre churchyard surrounding the church. He spoke about the large veteran English Oak tree on the … Read more