St. Helen's Parish Church &
St. Peter's, Gustard Wood

NEWS & NOTICES

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(updated 30 Nov 2009 )

What is going on in the Chancel?

During the first quarter of 2008 the Chancel is being refurbished - this involves cleaning of the ceiling paintings and repainting the walls. These pictures illustrate some of the progress on the ceiling.

Letter from the Rectory
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Events

To be updated

Data for 2009 yet to be added

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Church Mission Society partners

Our CMS Mission Partners up until Spring 2008 have been Andrayas and Kanwal Khan, working in Derby amongst the Asian community and especially Asian Christians. Our partnership with the Khans has recently come to an end and the Church Council is presently deciding with which of several possible CMS Mission Partners we should forge a new link.

Our parish supports the CMS through donations and prayer.

The Partnership aims to:

build bridges between Asian and indigenous communities
nurture Asian Christians
build links with other faith communities
promote sensitive evangelism within local churches

Picture gallery

Volunteer restoration work in progress

Recent restoration

A prayer

Lent is a journey towards Calvary, a road towards the Cross. It is not just that the Cross casts back its shadow on the approaching weeks like bad-news-a-comin’, though it does, but that the journeying itself admits of hardship. If we travel in faith, we do so with contrition, and committed to self-discovery, and in openness to God’s grace. Sometimes we would rather that none of these things were forced upon us, but that betrays our very unwillingness to walk the Lenten path to which Christ invites us. If we are going to pray at all, please .. let us pray in the season of Lent.

If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves
and the truth is not in us,
if we confess our sins God is faithful and just,
and will forgive us our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Wheathampstead PCC is a Registered Charity