A Christmas countdown with a difference will begin on Tuesday 1 December as Ewell’s community unites for the village’s Advent Calendar Treasure Hunt. Full details in the press release below: St Mary’s is number 24 in the treasure Hunt, and our ‘clue’ is on the main church notice board. If you haven’t taken your answer to ‘All things nice’ in the High Street by 19th December, you can hand it in at the church before 2.15pm on Christmas Eve and it will go in the draw.

Please note that this week (beginning 13 April) the Parish Office is closed on Monday and Wednesday. It will be open as usual Tuesday and Friday, 9:30am–12noon. Telephone messages will be checked.

Cafe NESCOT starts up again on Tuesday 14 April 2015. On Tuesdays in term time, students from NESCOT are serving simple lunches in our church hall (London Road, opposite the church), between 12 and 2pm. Soup, sandwiches, salad, and cakes, with tea, coffee, and soft drink. Everyone welcome. Do drop in!

The Electoral Roll is the Church of England’s equivalent to a membership list. If you are over 16 and baptized (christened) please consider joining our roll if you haven’t already. Forms for enrolment are available at the back of the church, or can be downloaded below. Only those whose names are on the Roll are entitled to take part in the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (on Sunday 12 April at 11am) so please check whether you are on the roll or submit an application form by Thursday 26 March when the Roll has to close until after the APCM. (Please note the electoral roll is separate from the Parish Directory.)

Are you interested in finding out more about the Christian faith? The Vicar will be starting one or two informal groups in the New Year, especially for those adults considering confirmation in the Church of England– all are welcome even if you aren’t sure you want to be confirmed. No previous knowledge assumed, open to all– it’s a chance to ask all those questions you’ve been wondering about for years! Contact our Vicar through this website or by phone on 0208 393 1297 to find out more. If there is enough demand we will run a daytime and an evening group. We hope to put on some children’s activities simultaneously,…

Very many thanks to all who made our Christmas services such a wonderful celebration: Sidesmen, servers, choir, and everyone else who contributed to our worship. We welcomed over a thousand people through our doors in the school services we hosted, and another thousand in our own parish Christmas services. Merry Christmas to one and all!

You are very welcome to attend our Advent and Christmas services. Sunday 30 November – Advent Sunday: 11am All-age service “Countdown to Christmas”. We are welcoming performing arts students from NESCOT who will be leading this service. Saturday 13 December: Children’s Christmas fun day. Find out more. Sunday 14 December: 5:30pm Nine Lessons and Carols. This is a choral celebration with traditional carols. Wednesday 24 Dec – Christmas Eve: 2:30pm & 4:00pm The Arrival at Bethlehem. Once again, we’re holding our family crib service twice on Christmas Eve. We tell the Christmas story and sing familiar carols. A favourite with kids. 11:45pm Midnight Mass. An atmospheric service with Christmas carols,…

There will be fun each day at 3.30pm from 1st to 23rd December as children and adults see ‘the display of the day’ revealed in a shop in Ewell Village High Street or, on 14th December at Christ Church, and on 24th December at St Mary’s Church. The exciting new venture is the result of collaboration between St Mary’s Church, Ewell Village Traders’ Association and Ewell Village Residents’ Association, who have spent three months working on the idea of the calendar. The shops and church displays are created around 24 numbers designed by pupils at St Martin’s Junior School, Epsom. Here is where you’ll find the display revealed at 3.30pm…

A very big thank you to everyone who has taken part in this year’s Operation Christmas Child. Many different community groups joined us in this venture and you will be delighted to hear that we were able to send off 192 shoe box gifts, which will go to children in need around the world. The boxes were collected on Friday, Nov. 21st and taken to a collecting point near Guildford, where they will be checked and put into large crates ready for their onward journey. In the coming weeks, do pray that our gifts will reach their destinations safely and pray for the children and their families who will eventually…

This year we are supporting the charity Latin Link. It is through Latin Link that Richard White, a member of St Mary’s, is currently in Bolivia. Once he has learnt the language he will be working mainly on two projects ‘Restoring Hope and ‘Angel Tree’. On 23rd November there will be a gift envelope offering at all three services for Latin Link, who will channel our donations to these two projects. After the 8am and 9.30am services complimentary refreshments will served as a thank you.