A morning of varied on-line live and recorded events for all ages on the theme of caring for nature and the environment has been organised for 26 September and will be shown on the Events section of St Mary’s Facebook page. Everything is on-line because, sadly, we aren’t able to meet in church as usual this year. You can see the on-line programme here. There are three competitions all with a deadline for entries of 23.59 on 20 September. For details about how to enter the photo, poetry and creative creatures competitions, see here. The winners of the poetry competition will be announced at 12 noon on the day. The winners of the photo competition and the Creative Creatures competition will be announced around 12.10…

Each Sunday we include in our prayers a range of different topics. Apart from praying for any current international or national disaster or need, we use the Anglican Communion Prayer Cycle to pray for churches all over the world and the Guildford Diocesan Prayer Calendar to pray for needs in the Diocese of which St Mary’s, Ewell is a part. We also pray for concerns and organisations in the Parish and for a different road in the Parish. You are invited to join your prayers with ours.

UPDATE: The funeral of our friend and priest Patrick Miller will be this Thursday, 10 September, at 11.30am. Because of limits on numbers, only family and a few close friends can attend in person. Everyone else is encouraged to attend the funeral online, as we plan a basic livestream on Facebook in the same way as we do for our Sunday services. You don’t need to be a Facebook user. Go to this address online: www.facebook.com/stmarysewell/live We suggest you log on from 11.20am, there will be music playing before the funeral starts. We also hope to record the service so if there are any problems with the livestream we would…

Each Sunday we include in our prayers a range of different topics. Apart from praying for any current international or national disaster or need, we use the Anglican Communion Prayer Cycle to pray for churches all over the world and the Guildford Diocesan Prayer Calendar to pray for needs in the Diocese of which St Mary’s, Ewell is a part. We also pray for concerns and organisations in the Parish and for a different road in the Parish. You are invited to join your prayers with ours.

During the present crisis we are making our parish magazine available online as soon as it is published.

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