St Peter's Church Stanley

St Peter’s church is starting to welcome back some of its regular groups.  From September, Mini-Maestros children’s music classes will be     returning, along with the community choir, knit & natter and the lunch club. 

Next month, we hope the scouts will be returning, as well as Children’s Ark, the Rodillians choir, our coffee mornings and maybe the film club.  It will be a bit longer until the Rainbows and Brownies return, and the Alternative Care disabled adults’ drama group.

Before returning, all groups are having to think very carefully about their activities, and how to ensure social distancing and minimise risks to members.  It all takes a lot of planning, and St Peter’s church has produced some guidance for groups to help the process.

The “Rule of 6” didn’t bring any significant changes to Church services. Below is the advice from the Church of England:

Public worship can continue. There is an exemption that covers places of worship making it possible for more than six people to gather for acts of communal worship. However, it is not a blanket exemption. People must not be part of a group of more than six unless they are from the same household or support bubble. 

https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches

So we continue to meet in a COVID-19 secure way every Sunday at 10am.

Now we are back in our buildings for the Sunday Service we are adjusting our online services.

Every week either the service from St Paul’s or the service from St Peter’s will be filmed live and broadcast on the St Peter’s Facebook page.

There is now a service in both churches every Sunday.

We are also continuing our mid week online prayers at the following times:

Monday morning prayer at 9am with Glenn and Angela
Tuesday evening prayer at 9pm with Glenn and Angela
Wednesday morning prayer at 9am with Glenn and Angela
Wednesday evening prayer at 9pm with Vicky
Thursday evening prayer at 9pm with Glenn and Angela
Friday evening prayer at 9pm with Vicky

During the lockdown we are keeping updated with all the churches in our benefice using a new benefice website.

Our services will continue posting here and our facebook page remains our primary source for service and information in Stanley.

See this page for all updates

Bereavement course: ‘Living with Loss’

5 weeks from Tuesday 12th November, 2pm

Rev Glenn Coggins is holding a short 5 week course at St Peter’s church to talk through some of the issues faced around bereavement.  The first  meeting is on Tuesday 12th November starting at 2pm with refreshments.  Each session will last no more than around an hour.  If you are interested in attending or wish to find out more, please contact Glenn on 01924 218484 or cogginsglenn@gmail.com or just come along on 12th November.

St Peter’s Church will be staging three performances of the musical ‘Hopes & Dreams’ on Friday 5th July, Saturday 6th July and Sunday 7th July 2019.  The musical was written by Paul Field in 1998 and was enormously successful at the time.  It features ‘The Millennium Prayer’: the words of the Lord’s Prayer set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne which was recorded by Cliff Richard and gave him a number one hit single.

St Peter’s has staged the musical twice before; originally in November 2002 in Stanley Community Centre and again in April 2011 to celebrate 10 years since our move from the old church to our new building. Even more than 20 years after it was written, the music is still so powerful that we felt it was time to revisit it, and stage it again for a new audience.

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The whole musical is based on the Lord’s Prayer, and uses the themes of creation, forgiveness, temptation among others as the inspiration for the songs, poems, dances and drama. We have a brilliant team of people busy rehearsing for the performances in the summer. Details of ticket sales will be released nearer the time.

Tickets for our pantomime ‘Jack, the Giant and the Magic Bean’ are now on sale!

Performances are 3pm on Sunday 25th November and Saturday 1st December, and 7.15pm on Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th Thursday 29th, Friday 30th November and Saturday 1st December.

Tickets cost £6 adults, £4 children and concessions and £18 for a family ticket. Please email the church office on churchoffice@stpeters-stanley.org.uk for tickets.