Recent Events in Sturry United Church

Lord Mayors Award
for significant contribution to the local community

Pentecost Sunday
May 2009

Photos from Church

Summer Fair
20th June 10am-3pm
Strawberry tea 5th July
BarBQ and swim - 19th July

Welcome to our website which gives an idea of the life of the church in Sturry and district, together with contact details and information on regular services , times of services at festivals and special events.

Website statistics - you are one of over 150 different visitors that visit this website each day (nearly 5,000 per month) to find out information about our local church or other information relating to the Anglican or Methodist churches. In June 2007, there were 6,313 different visitors to this website with 331 visiting on the 8th June.

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The Church of England (Canterbury Diocese) and The Methodist Church (NE Kent Circuit)in the Parish of Sturry with Fordwich and Westbere with HersdenSt. Nicholas Church is one of a group of churches within The Church of England and The Methodist Church in the Parish of Sturry with Fordwich and Westbere with Hersden. It is part of both the Anglican Diocese of Canterbury (Church of England) and the North East Kent Methodist Circuit.This website contains information and photos of the life of the church today as well as links to photographic tours of the historic church buildings. These explain the Christian meaning behind many of the objects found in churches today, and how they are used within Christian worship. This parish covers the villages of Sturry, Westbere, Hersden, Broad Oak and Fordwich, near Canterbury, Kent, UK. The churches included are St Nicholas in Sturry, All Saints in Westbere and St Mary in Fordwich.Church services and contact details for Anglican Rector and Methodist MinisterThe website gives phone numbers, email and addresses for the Rector and Methodist minister and answers to some of the common questions about getting married in church. This includes wedding fees, banns for weddings and remarriage in church.There are details of the times of worship at all the churches, such as Family Services, All-age services, Holy Communion and Morning Worship. There is also the service times at festivals such as Christmas, Easter, and Harvest. Joint Anglican Methodist Partnership (LEP)This group of churches is an LEP (Local Ecumenical Partnership), with members of the churches being joint Anglican and Methodist. The Rector and Minister both take both Anglican and Methodist style church services. The website has links to or copies of press articles about the Sturry Local Ecumenical Partnership. This ecumenical parish has often been quoted in joint Anglican Methodist discussions between the Church of England and the Methodist Church in England.Children's groups such as Jammers, Holiday Clubs, Sunday School and Pram and BuggyThe website has a large amount of information and photo-galleries on all the children's groups within the Parish - the weekday Pram and Buggy at church and Jammers after school club at Sturry Primary school, and Junior Church, Sunday School, Seekers and Flame music groups on Sunday mornings. Seekers is the new group for 10-14 year olds (and not a group of Quiditch players from Harry Potter!)Links to Canterbury Diocese and NE Kent Methodist CircuitThis church website contains links to other websites related to the church and parish activities.Historic churchesThere is information of each church, together with a full photographic tour of the historic churches.