Covid 19

With the gradual relaxation of lockdown, we are opening open most of our churches, once a week to allow Private Prayer. This started weekly from 7th July. The rota is as below:

• Tuesdays - Eastham 9am to 6pm;
• Wednesdays - Rochford 9am to 6pm;
• Thursdays - Stanford 9am to 6pm;
• Fridays - Stoke Bliss 10am to 4pm and Kyre 2.30pm to 5pm;
• Saturdays - Hanley William 9am to 4pm;
• Sundays - Rochford 9am to 6pm 

In order to minimise the risk to those wishing to pray and those opening and closing the churches, we will keep the doors and gates open during opening and ask that those attending maintain social distancing and use the provided hand sanitiser on entry and exit from the church. Obviously we will try to open our churches more frequently when the risk is reduced.

We will be having public worship in our churches subject to safeguards starting on 2nd August:

• Sunday 2nd August - St Mary, Stanford at 10am
• Sunday 9th August - All Saints, Hanley William at 10am
• Sunday 16th August - St Peter and St Paul, Eastham at 4.30pm
• Sunday 23rd August - St Michael, Rochford at 10am

We are recording Sunday Services at Services in a time of Crisis - we are also Zooming daily prayers.

Meanwhile, these churches remain active in prayer and supporting the communities. Most current information is available on our Facebook page.

All our local communities are offering contact, support and assistance for the vulnerable or housebound. If you need help or would like to offer your assistance please contact:

• Our local Church members who are actively involved in this initiative:

  • For Eastham - Celia Adams by Email or phone her on 01584 781258 or ask her for you to join the Eastham Covid 19 WhatsApp group - she will need your mobile number to do this and you will need to have WhatsApp installed on your 4G mobile

  • For Hanley - Peter Thorneycroft

  • For Rochford - Ann Prosser by Email or phone her on 01584 781317

  • For Stanford - Robin Dean by Email or phone him on 01886 853295

  • For Stoke Bliss and Kyre - Maggie Kingston by phone on 01885 410431

• Our Priests

  • Our Priest in Charge, Rev Julia Curtis by  Email or phone her on 01886 853286

  • One of our Retired Priests
    • Rev Robert Barlow by Email or phone him on 07947 600627
    • Rev Sally Jones by Email or phone her on 01584 781526

Last revised 26th July  2020 at 09:00

The Church of England has recently supplied the attached book of prayers:

Corona Virus Prayer Book

The Church of England have recently launched a free telephone service called Daily Hope phone line on 0800 804 8040 (available 24 hours per day). This is for people who do not have easy access to the internet. If you have friends or neighbours who are unhappy trying to navigate a computer keyboard - please recommend this to them - it contains prayers, hymns and services - all are accessible via a spoken menu using your phone keypad to respond. I particulaly liked the hymns which are replaced daily (Option 2) Below is the link describing this service:

https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-parishes/daily-hope-phone-line

The Church of England is offering the following guidance:
https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches

The Church of England is offering the following prayer resources:
https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-liturgy-and-prayer-resources

We feel that the attached Psalm might be helpful:

Psalm 121
A song of ascents.

Below some helpful guidance from Worcestershire County Council

Above leaflet as a PDF for Download