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Stationing profile
What is your style of worship
- Our church enjoys a variety of worship
- Junior fun church runs each Sunday during the morning worship
- Monthly morning communion services,
- Monthly evening communion services following a more meditative form of style like Iona services
- Monthly All age worship including the band playing
- There is a strong lay leadership
- Gathering for worship led by congregation members
- Monthly weekday Messy Church young children and families service
- Morning worship is hybrid, recorded for those unable to attend on that day and is zoomed to those at home
- Cafe style
- Fareham is registered for same sex marriage
What are the pastoral arrangements
- There is a strong pastoral team, with robust safeguarding procedures in place.
- Support offered through Healing prayer group
- Monthly prayer circle held in the church.
- Working with people on the fringes
- House groups
- Flower Ministry
What ecumenical links are there
- Our church takes an active role in Christians together in Fareham (CtiF), including Good Friday walk of witness.
- Bible study groups for Lent run with other churches
- Annual children’s holiday club, run with CtiF, using our building with other sites and volunteers
- Strong link with Fareham URC, sharing 3 episodes of worship a year and also sharing Christmas day and Christmas Eve services.
- We work with Youth together in Fareham including PFZ (parent free zone)
What sort of community links are there
- Support Fareham food bank
- Support Fareham College
- Weekly Mini market
- Brownies Scouts and Guides
- (Hall hires, including child health care, slimming world, Trinity per school, dance and singing groups)
- Links with Ukrainian church and school
- Links with young parents through Parent and toddler group
- Monthly Friday lunches and monthly Sunday lunches
What would you like your church to be like in 3 years time
- Continuing to build on work going on
- Increase possibility of using zoom to possibly include links to care homes etc.
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