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Please help safeguard the future of our church
Thanks! Christmas Fair raises almost £7,000
Huge thanks are due to so many people throughout the village for supporting Graffham St Giles’ virtual 2020 Christmas Fairs – resulting in a record-breaking almost £7,000 to help safeguard the future of our historic church and parish. For more detail, including who won what in the raffle and auction, click here
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Parish Eucharist at St Giles Church – Service Booklet
Knock and it shall be opened unto you Matthew 7.7 Click or tap on our West Door for the text of our Parish Eucharist Service.
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‘Graffham Through a Thousand Years’
For a copy of this reprinted book by Frederick Barrett detailing Graffham’s history in exchange for a donation, please contact hello@stgilesgraffham.org
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St Giles reopening for Worship from Sunday 14 March
Following greater confidence in vaccine protection and lowering incidence of virus cases in this area we’re pleased to announce St Giles will reopen for worship, with all precautions continuing, as follows:
Sunday Matins
14, 21 and 28 March 9am
Good Friday
Service of Reflection with music 2 April 2pm
Easter Sunday Eucharist
Easter Day 4 April 10.30am
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Online Eucharist continues
The Eucharist will continue to be recorded in the Rectory study until after Easter Day, uploaded here via our YouTube channel and to our St Giles Church Graffham Facebook page.
Once the Eucharist resumes at St Giles, an online Word Service will continue to be offered from the Rectory at 10.30am each Sunday.
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Zoom Night Prayer every Wednesday at 7pm
Zoom Night Prayer is continuing on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. If you would like to join this quiet, reflective service please email hello@stgilesgraffham.org for a link to the service. Click on the CANDLE below for a service to use or download.
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Contact us
Revd Vivien on 01798 867199 or reverendvivien@gmail.com for parish enquiries.
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Safeguarding
Our safeguarding officer is Sonya Gillespie Click on the link for our safeguarding page https://www.stgilesgraffham.org/policies/safeguarding/
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Defibrillator
A defibrillator is now available at all times at St Giles. See the sign on the outside door of the Boiler Room on the North side of the church, just inside the low wall.
Remember to call 999 first.
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‘Stations of the Cross’ in Graffham gardens from Passion Sunday 21 March until Easter
From All Saints Chapel to St Giles’ Church. See online Graffham Parish News below for reflections accompanying fifteen pictures tracing the story of our Lord’s Passion, to follow while walking along Graffham Street.
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Thoughts for the Day for Sundays
Click on the Open Door of our church for a Thought for the Day for each Sunday. Archive of reflections also available here.
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March 2021’s Graffham Parish News has sprung off the presses – read here!
March 2021’s edition of Graffham Parish News is being circulated now throughout the village, but, if you don’t have a copy, you can download one by clicking on its front cover, above.
It features reflections accompanying Graffham’s Easter Stations of the Cross, on pages 29 to 32, photos of lovely wildlife and local art and all the key village news.
Click on the front cover, above, to open the full magazine online.
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Graffham w. Woolavington Trustee Annual Report
Click on the link for our Annual Report page https://www.stgilesgraffham.org/donate/annual-report/