Welcome to St Mary's Shortlands

At a meeting on 6th January 2021, St Mary's Parochial Church Council (PCC) decided to temporarily suspend communal church services for the time being.  This decision will be reviewed regularly.  It has been a very difficult decision to make but, given, the current COVID situation, we needed to consider the safety, health and welfare of everyone.

The church remains open for private prayer on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10am - 3pm.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHURCH WILL BE CLOSED FOR DAILY PRAYER ON MONDAY 25th JANUARY.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Online worship
Sunday services will take place at 10.30am (via Facebook, either pre-recorded or live-streamed).  Click here for the latest order of service.

Morning Prayer is available Monday to Saturday at 9am, via Facebook).   Click here for the order of service. 

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Pastoral and practical support
If you or anyone you know needs some practical or spiritual support during this time, we can arrange for regular telephone calls to be made to individuals, along with assistance with essential shopping.  It may be that you would like the church to pray for you or a friend or member of your family.  Whatever support can be provided, we at St Mary's will do our very best to help.  Please contact either Revd Gary Best - 07493 072695 - or go to our Community Support page for further information about practical and spiritual support.

St Mary's Parish Newsletter - SPAN

Safeguarding
As a church we take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously: we are committed to ensuring our church and hall buildings are safe places for all.  If you have any concerns about safeguarding you can contact our Parish Safeguarding Officer, Kay Coleman, on 07879 337567.