The St Philip and All Saints (The Barn Church) Annual Parochial Church Meeting will take place during the 11am Service at the Barn Church on Sunday 19th May 2024 (which will be followed by a Bake Off!)
The annual report can be found below, along with links to the Agenda and the Minutes of the 2023 APCM
St Philip & All Saints (the Barn Church), Kew is seeking a Director of Music who will work collaboratively with our Vicar to grow and develop music at our church: to enhance our worship, encourage and enable our congregation through music, and further our outreach in our wider community.
St Philip & All Saints (The Barn Church) is a friendly and inclusive church in Kew (Diocese of Southwark) which appreciates a breadth of church music from traditional to modern. We have a Forster and Andrews 1894 two-manual organ and blowing plant, maintained by Henry Willis & Sons, and a grand piano.
We are seeking someone with skills to be: competent organist and pianist to play at our weekly Sunday morning service, Holy Week and Christmas, and occasional offices when available; choir director; worship band director
The role would suit a creative, enthusiastic and imaginative musician who can nurture our (unrobed) choir and help us develop our existing worship band which aims to encourage and involve our young people and older children.
For more information, including a Job Description (which details remuneration and fees), contact our parish office (office@kewbenefice.org). If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact our Vicar, Reverend Dr Melanie Harrington-Haynes.
Applications to be received by: Friday 21st June Auditions and interviews: Monday 1st July
There will be no Christian Meditation at The Barn Church on Easter Monday (1 April).
Our practice will return on 7 April at 18:50 as usual – please do join us then.
Palm Sunday, 24 March, 10am. Benefice Eucharist and Procession with Palms, starting from St Luke’s and moving to the Barn Church
followed at 11:30am by the making of Easter Gardens in the Barn Church Garden. We will also be making an Easter Garden for the sanctuary of St Luke’s Church.
Monday 25 March, 7:30pm. Benefice Compline at the Barn Church,
followed at 8pm by Christian Meditation at the Barn Church
Tuesday 26 March, 7:30pm. Benefice Compline at the Barn Church
Wednesday 27 March, 7:30pm: Tenebrae, Service of Shadows at St Luke’s
Thursday 28 March, 7:30pm: Maundy Thursday Eucharist with foot washing at St Luke’s
Good Friday, 29 March, 10am-noon: Children’s Easter Craft session at St Luke’s
Good Friday, 29 March, 2pm. Meditations with Music at St Luke’s
Easter Sunday, 31 March, 8:30am: Outdoor Easter Eucharist in the Barn Church Garden, followed by breakfast.
Come and support the Barn Church by getting your grove on at the Silent Disco on Saturday 23 March 2024
Tickets £10/£5 from 07725705092.
Food, snacks, and drinks available to purchase (licenced bar)
Join us for our Benefice Lent Bible Study on Meeting God in Mark
Hosted at St Luke’s Church (The Avenue, Kew) on Thursdays, 10-11am, weekly from 15 February – 28 March.
In this year’s Lent Bible Study we’re going to be using Rowan Williams’ little Lent Book, Meeting God in Mark. Mark is the gospel that the Church of England’s lectionary focuses on this year, so it’s a great opportunity to read the whole of the (shortest) gospel and explore it in more depth with the help of the insight of Bishop Rowan.
We’ll be following the daily reading plan and Sunday reflections that the book includes, and those hosting the sessions will draw on the lectures in the book in facilitating discussions.
You don’t have to buy the book as we will provide some material from it to cover the course, but if you do, you can find it in a lot of bookshops for around £10.99. You’ll be able to get the Reading Plan and Reflections as a pdf from the Parish Office.