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Rev. Canon Martha Mutikani is delighted to have accepted the appointment to be our vicar, and looks forward to serving at St Augustine’s, Scaynes Hill. She currently serves as an Associate Vicar in the Uckfield Plurality and has been ordained since 2015. Alongside her parish ministry, she is the Assistant Dean of Women’s Ministry in…

Every year, thousands of churches across thecountry unite to mark Safeguarding Sunday.It’s a chance to listen and to talk togetherabout how we can create places that are saferfor everyone. At St Augustine’s Scaynes Hill, we celebrated Safeguarding Sunday this week, on Sunday 9th February. The prayer that Jo used during the intercessions is in the…

We had an uplifting prayer and worship evening on Sunday. We prayed for all kinds of topics in the news and close to home, and we remembered our faithful and all loving God as we worshipped. One of our favourite prayer activities was rewriting the Lord’s prayer and here’s a wonderful example. Why not join…

Many thanks to the dedicated team of flower arrangers who decorated the church in time for our “Carols by Candlelight” service on Sunday evening. Here are the piles of greenery waiting to be arranged, a daunting task … but the random piles were quickly reduced to decorative order around the church, including the crib located…

After enjoying delicious (free!) hot dogs – thank you, team – everybody trooped outside into the darkened churchyard. Steve started the countdown: “10, 9, 8, …” and precisely on zero Kevin’s grand daughter Annie threw the switch and the Christmas tree lit up in a blaze of light. Tim, on accordion, and Helen organised carols…

Beverley writes: The ministry of cake … and more! St Augustine’s surpassed itself on Saturday 26th October by making sure that all the delegates at the Dicesan Lay Ministry Conference at the Millenium Centre received a warm welcome and were well supplied with fabulous cake and coffee/tea. Everyone enjoyed the refreshments with the most difficult…

Jenny Bewick asks: which fruit would you like to develop this harvest time? Thank you for this beautiful picture Jenny.

Debbie writes: On Saturday afternoon a number of us went to Chichester Cathedral to see Alan and Jenny Cattermole receive the Order of St Richard for their many years of hard work and faithfulness, not only on behalf of St Augustine’s, but also in the community and for FSW. It was wonderful to see them…

Chris and Sue made a loaf using home ground flour from the Living Lightly event! They say it tasted as good as it looks. Perfect! Thank you for telling us about it Chris and I am glad you enjoyed the bread.

The church looked stunning for our Harvest Festival on Sunday. Everybody voted a massive thank you to Dianne Elliott and her team for their hard work and imagination. Thank you, Dianne! Thank you also Chris and Sue for organising and delivering the gifts for FSW (Diocesan Family Support Work).

Living Lightly – some thoughts It’s been wonderful to hear so many positive comments about our Living Lightly day which got me wondering why it was a success. Here are some themes that emerged for me: Community – a wonderful flow of people came to the event, people from our church community, families from St…

Here is the poster for my Living Lightly Demo featuring wheat milled for flour and demonstration of pan-roasted green coffee beans. I chose the strap line “Cut the Supply Chain” to emphasize why we would wish to mill our own flour or roast our own coffee as part of our drive to reduce our environmental…