WELCOME TO THURSTABLE & WINSTREE CHURCHES
Our parishes are all committed to the Chelmsford diocesan strategy “Transforming Presence”. We seek to be a Christian presence in each of the communities we serve and all of our churches are keen to welcome new people and to grow spiritually and numerically.
Thurstable and Winstree is a Team Ministry formed by the joining together of three neighbouring benefices, comprising nine parishes. Each of our churches has its own distinctive character and we have strong relationships across our parishes.
Our team is soon to become part of a larger new Benefice of 18 churches within the Witham Deanery, and are looking to recruit more clergy and form stronger bonds between us, working more closely together as a team and sharing our talents and strengths.
This is an exciting time to join us as we move together into this new stage of our common life
harvest festivals in our churches
St Mary Layer Marney, Sunday 26th October at 6 pm
Our church offerings for Harvest are mainly non-perishable items for the Foodbanks. The items needed for Tiptree are as per their shopping list.
Memorial Services in our churches
All are invited to join us and remember those we have lost especially in the past year, but at any time in our lives.
We have special services at St John the Baptist, Layer de la Haye on Sunday 26th October at 4 pm and on Sunday 2nd November at St Luke’s Tiptree, also at 4 pm.
Join us if you would like to, but if you don’t feel able to and would like us to pray for someone in particular, please do get in touch 01621 819557.
Remembrance Sunday Services, Sunday 9th November
We have the following services planned in our churches and communities:
9 am St Mary Layer Marney, Holy Communion
9.30 am St Mary, Easthorpe, Act of Remembrance
10.45 am Birch, Remembrance Sunday Service
10.50 am All Saints Messing, Remembrance Sunday Service
10.50 am St John, Layer de la Haye, Remembrance Sunday Service, at the Cross
10.50 am St Michael, Copford Remembrance Sunday Service
10.55 am St Luke’s Tiptree, Act of Remembrance in Church
3 pm Remembrance Sunday Service at St Luke’s Church, Tiptree, following the Act of Remembrance at Tiptree War
Memorial at 2.10 pm (procession leaves The Centre at approx. 2 pm)
12.15 pm Inworth All Saints’, Act of Remembrance
resources for services:
Weekly News Sheet
This includes news and information about services and events in our churches in:
Great Braxted, Inworth, Messing, Layer Breton with Birch, Layer de la Haye, Layer Marney and Tiptree
For the Copford, Easthorpe, Feering & Kelvedon group of churches you can find out more from their newsletter by clicking here
About us
Find out about who we are and what is going on in our churches for children, young people and families, as well as services and events by following clicking the drop-down menu ‘About us’. Also, details about the Foodbank.
To find out what we do, click link here:
WEDDINGS
Just one of our nine beautiful churches, St john the baptist, Layer de la Haye
Are you thinking of getting married in one of our churches?
Click below to find out more about how to go about this:
Our church at Great Braxted is only open for visitors by appointment, you can watch the video below to see the church before arranging this:
A short video about weddings at our church, All Saints Great Braxted. Thank you to our lovely couples for helping us with this.