Sunday Evening Service

Sunday Evening 6.00 pm

The evening service at 6.00pm is Common Worship Evensong or, on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month, Common Worship Holy Communion with prayers for Healing on the 4th Sunday.

These services are quite different from most of our other services, the congregation is mainly adult and there are very few, if any, children present.

We have the choir accompanied by our excellent organist Ed. (At special services, Advent Sunday, Christmas and Palm Sunday, other singers join the choir.)

At Evensong we sing traditional hymns,1 psalm, and the Magnificat.

The responses are mainly said.

We use a choral setting of Common Worship Holy Communion.

Both services have hymns taken from Ancient and Modern New Standard and Songs of Fellowship. Sometimes we have an anthem from the choir.

We listen to readings from the Old and New Testament, read by a member of the congregation.

Intercessionary prayer times are very special, very peaceful and a time of quiet reflection and these are written and read by one of our Readers (thank you).

The sermon (and communion on the 2nd and 4th Sunday) is the focal point of the evening service, and is usually reflected in the the word of God, the prayers and the hymns.

At the Holy Communion service on the 4th Sunday, there is an opportunity to receive the ministry of healing through prayer and the laying on of hands (with annointing with oil if requested), as well as communion, in the memorial chapel in the South Aisle.

In the months with a fifth Sunday, the service tries experimental forms of musical worship, such as Taize chants and Iona/World music.

Most of all though at the Evening Service we share the love of God as in all the other services.

Minister in charge: Rector  (0191 3884027

Time:  6.00 pm

Place:  Parish Church