Notices 5th July

Opportunites to Pray Together

Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast 1^st Saturday of the month at the Vicarage, from 9am, prayer, coffee and croissant. Next is 1st August – Thursday evening at St Thomas at 6:00 pm for an hour every other week.  16th July 2026.

This Sunday Services:  St Thomas' Day

09:30 St. Thomas' Holy Communion.

11:15 St Martha’s Mattins.

Next Sunday Services:  12th July

09:30 Albury – Morning Worship.

11:15 St Martha’s Holy Communion.

Donations at St Martha’s during services can now be made electronically via our Card Reader.

Looking Further Ahead

Tots and Toddlers: St Thomas' Monday 9:15am

Benefice Congregational Vacancy Meeting: 7th July 7.30pm Shere

Joint PCC away day: 11^th July, St Nicholas Church

Music at St Martha's in Aid of Royal Marsden:  12th July 1-2pm

TENT Service: 19^th July Albury Heath 10:00am

 Food and Hygiene Bank

The Foodbank Larder box is located in the porch of St Thomas Church.

Please help!  We are currently very low on funds and struggling to keep up with demand.
Donations of LL milk, tinned meat, fish, veg & beans, pasta, pasta sauces, sachets rice, toiletries and cleaning products always needed. We also supply 6 families, 4 single households with monthly deliveries of fresh food at a cost £400-£500 a month.
Donations can be made at: treasurer@parishofchilworth.org.uk or scanning Foodbank QR code. Thank you

Chilworth Tinies and Toddler Group

Mondays from 9:15 -10:30am  meet in St Thomas', play chat, pray and support. 

Rector Update - Benefice Congregational Vacancy Meeting

Following Rector Tim Heaney’s announcement of this retirement in the autumn this year, he has kindly agreed that some of the Vacancy process can begin before October.

On Tuesday 7 July the Congregational Meeting will take place at 7.30pm in St James’, Shere. This is open to everyone in the Benefice. Archdeacon Catharine Mabuza will lead this meeting laying out what will take place over the coming months. Parking is limited around the church but the Village Car park GU5 9HE is free after 6pm

Children’s work update

I have been attending some Diocesan training and am praying that we will launch an after school group, please pray for help and inspiration as we look at all the options open to us.

Children’s Trail

The Children’s Trail is now live after a successful launch day.

Joint PCC Away Day 11th July 9am

The first Joint Benefice PCC Away Day will take place at St Nicholas’ Church, Bury Street, Guildford GU2 4AW on Saturday 11 July. We begin at 9am with welcome (and Coffee) then at 9.15am we will have a short Morning Prayer followed by Revd Dr Sam Wells speaking on ‘Being With’ - which underpins our vison as a Benefice. From 11am Victoria Ashdown, a Diocesan facilitator, will lead us in putting this vision into action notably as we create our Benefice and Parishes’ Development Plans. A sandwich lunch will be served and we will finish by 2pm.

There is no Parking at St Nicholas’ Church so use the town centre car parks such as Millbrook or Castle Street and ideally lift share! This promises to be an exciting step forward in our journey together and we are delighted to be welcoming Sam Wells.

Music at St Martha's - 12th July 1-2pm

Broad Horizons Book Group

Our informal book continues on June 30^th when we will be discussing "There are rivers in the sky" (Elif Shafak).  See below for further details:

Book Stall at Albury Produce Show

Albury  are running their usual book stall at Albury’s Produce Show on Saturday 18 July and are looking for books! Do you have any books you no longer need? They would love them!! Collection points are in the Churches of Albury, Shere, Peaslake and Chilworth or on the morning of the Show at the stall itself.

They are also looking for some volunteers to help sort the books in the morning and to sell the books in the afternoon. Please contact Albury’s Churchwardens if you can spare an hour or so!!

PCC & APCM Minutes and Documents

 Redacted versions of these can now be found at https://www.parishofchilworth.org.uk/pcc/ on the Parish Website and will be uploaded when available.

Used Stamps for Oxfam

 Please place used stamps in the box at the back of St Thomas' which will stay there all year and be emptied as and when it gets full.

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If  you need us

If you need any help with anything or have any questions please click on the names below to email a request:

For general admin matters our Administrator Yvonne

For local pastoral issues our Minister David