Posts by Jess Bent

October Services

With the air cooling and autumn beginning, we are now into October. As always, our 8 am services will continue to be from the Book of Common Prayer. Our 10 am services will begin with a Family Service on the 6th with a Bring-and-Share lunch to celebrate Harvest together. Other services include Sung Eucharist (13th),…

Services this September

With school beginning again, we will be returning to our regular pattern of worship this month. 8 am services will continue to be from the Book of Common Prayer and 10 am services will flow from a Family Service on the 1st to an All-Age Communion on the 29th. We also see the return of…

St Paul’s College (Hong Kong) Choir to Perform at St Andrew’s

Coming this August: St Paul’s College, Hong Kong, UK tour. Performing in six venues across the UK in Manchester, Cambridge, and London, St Paul’s College School Orchestra and School Choir will enchant and delight as they share Chinese Compositions, Classical Masterpieces, and Sacred Choral Pieces. The Choir will be performing at St Marylebone Parish Church…

Vassa Day 2024

A good crowd came out for Vassa Day this year. The service, entwined with St Andrew’s Family Service, remembered Anna Maria Vassa and her family. Anna Maria, the daughter of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) a celebrated author and campaigner against the transatlantic slave trade in 18th -century England, died young and was buried in St Andrew’s…

That’s a Wrap!

A big thank you to everyone who came along to last week’s performances of Breaking the Silence of the British Slave Trade. It has been agreed: the Collisions Theatre cast were outstanding. With song and word, they brought their audience back into the past to experience an 18th century abolitionist meeting. With testimony from the…

Breaking the Silence of the British Slave Trade

Come and experience a unique theatrical performance of testimony, story, and song from Abolitionists in their own words. The national tour for the Collisions Theatre Company production of Breaking the Silence of the British Slave Trade comes to St Andrew’s Chesterton! Performances will be held on the 5th and 7th of June 2024 at 7:30PM.…