Services

Our normal pattern of services

We  normally hold services each month in the two churches in our benefice, in Shipbourne or Plaxtol, as set out below . There are also special services for Christmas  and Easter and other festivals of the church: for details of these services, see below.

8.009.3011.00
1st Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Family Service
Plaxtol
2nd Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Shipbourne
Matins
Shipbourne
Parish Communion
Plaxtol
3rd Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Family Communion
Plaxtol
4th Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Shipbourne
Family Service
Shipbourne
Parish Communion
Plaxtol
5th Sunday
(when there is one)
Holy Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Matins
Plaxtol

Every weekday at 8.30am Morning Prayer will be said at Plaxtol and every weekday evening (except Friday and Saturday) at 4.30pm Evening Prayer will be said at St Giles Shipbourne.

Services during Lent

The normal pattern of weekly services will continue, but with some changes and additional services, as follows

Sunday 10 March ~ 9.30am: Family Service to celebrate Mothering Sunday (instead of Matins which normally takes place on the second Sunday of each month)

Palm Sunday, 24 March ~ 9.15am: Procession of Palms from Shipbourne Village Hall on the Green to St Giles Church, Shipbourne, followed by Morning Service at 9.30am (this replaces the Family service which normally takes place on the fourth Sunday of the month)

Services for Holy Week and Easter

Monday 25 March – 9.00pm: Compline at St Giles, Shipbourne

Wednesday 27 March ~ 9.00pm: Compline at St Giles, Shipbourne

Good Friday 29 March ~ 12.00 to 1.00pm: Choral Service at St Giles Shipbourne, followed by walking with the cross to Plaxtol Church, starting at 1.00pm

Easter Day, Sunday 31 March ~ Family Communion to celebrate Easter Day

If you would like to give a lily in memory of someone at Easter…… 

  • Just fill in the name on one of the slips of paper at the back of the church, 
  • put it with your donation in one of the envelopes marked “Easter Lilies” and 
  • give it to one of the Churchwardens. 

Or you can send your donation to Felicity Ward at Hookwood House, Shipbourne, Kent TN11 9RJ. Cheques should be made payable to Mrs F. L. B. Ward please.

All the names will be entered in our book which will be displayed in church at Easter in memoriam of all the people who are being remembered.

Covid – 19: infection control

Following the end of the last period of lockdown, we kept our infection control restrictions under regular review and have gradually reduced the safety measures we had adopted. There is now no requirement to wear a face mask during services, but you may do so if you wish.  

We now receive communion at the altar rail, and there is an option to receive the bread and wine separately or to take the bread dipped in wine (“intinction”).

The clinically vulnerable may wish to come into church during the week when they can be safe on their own, or to our smaller ‘said’ services at 8am on Sundays at St Giles or Plaxtol Church or to morning prayer at Plaxtol Church at 8.30am on weekdays.

Our church is open for individual private prayer daily, except on Mondays, between 9am and 3.30pm

We continue to be the Church: a people of prayer and action. 

Christmas 2020

As well as our Christmas services in church, we recorded a special ‘Festival of Readings and Music’ so everyone can join in, to celebrate the birth of Christ. This can be found athttps://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZZOFPNsVpQ?feature=oembed

8.009.3011.00
1st Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Family Service
Plaxtol
2nd Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Shipbourne
Matins
Shipbourne
Parish Communion
Plaxtol
3rd Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Family Communion
Plaxtol
4th Sunday of monthHoly Communion
Shipbourne
Family Service
Shipbourne
Parish Communion
Plaxtol
5th Sunday
(when there is one)
Holy Communion
Plaxtol
Parish Communion
Shipbourne
Matins
Plaxtol

As well as our Christmas services in church, we recorded a special ‘Festival of Readings and Music’ so everyone can join in, to celebrate the birth of Christ. This can be found at

 

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