APCM 2025 Documentation
Ahead of our APCM on the 6th April following our 9:30am Sung Eucharist please see reports and financial statements in the below links. Annual ReportFinancial Report
February 2025 – From the Vicarage
From the February 2025 Parish Magazine Dear friends, February is the month where the days are beginning to feel a little lighter and longer and the first signs of spring are beginning to break forth. Spring is a time of renewal and hope, tentative though that might be early in the month. The photograph below …
January 2025 – From the Vicarage
From the January 2025 Parish Magazine Dear friends, Happy New Year or as the Japanese would say, akemashite (the New Year has dawned!) omedetou (Congratulations!) gozaimasu! I'm offering you the Japanese version of Happy New Year because of their acknowledgement that the New Year has begun. We often seem reluctant, I think, to pause in …
Advent Weekend Celebrations
From the January 2025 Parish Magazine From November 29th to 1st December St Mary’s had a busy weekend with the Christmas Tree Festival, Rushden Town Brass Band concert and finishing off with the Advent Carol service in church. Even though a little cold with no heating, the warmth of the start of the Christmas season …
Creating Christmas
Whether you visit us once over Advent and Christmas or attend every service, you have perhaps never considered the work which happens behind the scenes to make sure everything happens smoothly. Planning for the season started back in July when our Fundraising Committee met to decide upon the theme for the Christmas Tree Festival. In …
Open the Book – December 2024
Earlier this autumn a team formed within our congregation to take assemblies into Finedon Mulso Junior School as part of the Bible Societies "Open the Book" programme which is "an exciting storytelling project where Bible stories are shared with children in a way that is fun, interactive and memorable". The group is led by Pete …
December 2024 – From the Vicarage
From the December 2024 Parish Magazine Dear friends, Time flies when we are having fun! Hopefully you will feel like this too; it only seems a few days since I was licensed as Vicar here and yet both Becky and I feel well settled into the church and wider community - if feels like we …
On the resignation of Justin Welby
From the Diocese of Peterborough: Following the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Debbie has made the following statement. 'The Makin Report makes for harrowing reading and leaves me with a feeling of deep sadness and shame for the way in which victims of such horrific abuse have been let down by our Church. …
A Bumper Harvest
From the November 2024 Parish Magazine This year’s Harvest services produced a bumper crop, not only of produce but also for attendance in church. Including the Sunday morning communion service, the joint Harvest Supper and Songs of Praise with the Wesleyan Chapel and the schools’ Harvest service. There were over 769 people who were welcomed …
November 2024 – From the Vicarage
From the November 2024 Parish Magazine Dear friends, As we approach this season of Remembrance, I have been thinking about our duty as Christians to be people of peace, to promote peace, and to be peaceful in all that we offer. I'm basing this on John 14: 27 where Jesus said: 'Peace I leave with …