Joining in with Ride and Stride
During Ride and Stride 2019 on 14 September 2019 a team from St Mark and the redoubtable Francois Hugo from Chilworth raised over £660 for the Hampshire and the Islands…
Recycling as part of daily life
Please recycle. Please also take recycling to collection points as part of journeys you have to make anyway: to work, to shop, for leisure. Otherwise your journey adds unnecessary pollution….
Our liturgy has seen chaos before
At St Denys this past Sunday, I looked upon these fragile plaster ribs with worried eyes after a service of Matins. Their form mimics that of the Union Flag. It…
A Church Near You – Adoption in parishes
This week we look at A Church Near You the amazing national project which provides a search optimised web presence to every parish church in England. Today, How parishes can…
Plastic: stopping single use
Take the challenge: Cut out single use plastic this month. Single use plastics are a major problem for recycling, cause global heating and support the oil extraction industries. Taking the…
Enabling parish communication
Communications without budget or paid staff time is a massive challenge. It usually requires some sacrificial volunteering. People doing this go by a variety of titles, from social media manager…
Borrow your next book
Borrow some of books you need from a library rather than buying them. Support libraries – there are social, environmental and community benefits. – The Eco Tip for the ninth…
A balanced life with God
The life of St Benedict of Nursia (6th Century AD) may not be familiar to you, but he made a lasting contribution to the way in which Christian religious houses…
A visit to every church in Hampshire?
Jill Low dropped in on All Saints on her sponsored journey to visit every church in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. She is helping bring All Saints Fleet back…
Adult craft evening stimulates creativity
A social craft evening at All Saints North Baddesley drew 12 people together to explore their creativity, new crafts and community. Pyrography (wood burning), beading and painting on pottery were…
Share Produce: Eco Church for Trinity VI
Serve the common good: share produce from our gardens with those in need. The Eco Tip for this week. If you are a gardener and have surplus harvest: share with…
Lead theft from Ampfield Parish Church
Lead theft at St Mark, Ampfield has damaged 24m of the roof of this historic church. This page will be kept updated.
Eco Church: pollinators under threat: The fifth week of Trinity
We are running out of pollinating insects: Ecotip: Plant flowers for bees and other insects; try for a long flowering season so they always have food available.
Digital Day with the Diocese
The 2019 Digital Day for the Diocese of Winchester brought the Church of England social media champion Liz Morgan to train on developments in social media and A Church Near You. Watch, and let Liz explain what’s it was all about.
Eco Church for the fourth Sunday after Trinity
In Acts the believers were recorded as ‘having everything in common’. Could building a reuse tradition in @acbchurch benefit our communities both practically and theologically?
Re-Creation, and Holy Days
As we look towards the holy-days: the root of the whole idea of holiday, Jesus’ offers up something amazing with that phrase “rest for your souls”. It’s a whole new meaning to the summer holiday. – From The Vicar’s Column July 2019
Eco Church for the third Sunday after Trinity
This week in the ecochurch collection: Water for wildlife, and a developing world perspective on how we look at water from a theological point of view – an issue of increasing importance as Global Heating and migration pose continuing challenges.
Vandalism to the Community AED
The emergency defibrillator hosted by All Saints church North Baddesley was vandalised, probably on the night of the 3 July, making the defibrillator location code impossible to read.
Ampfield Memorial to 1944 D-Day campaign crash
We heard rending crash…the whole forest floor was strewn with debris. The smell of aviation fuel was unbearable. There had been an utter disaster. Watch a short from the service of remembrance of this tragic loss of 5 USAF Airmen 75 years ago with eyewitness Steve, and those who found relatives in the USA
Eco Church for the second Sunday after Trinity
Stop running the tap when you don’t need the water! Simple behavioural and technical changes could cut your households water use by around 10%. More energetic changes could halve the…
Eco Church for the first Sunday after Trinity
This week: Please stop using plastic bottles for water. We’re so fortunate to live in part of the world where you can drink what comes out of the mains! Reusable…
You ‘Loved Your Burial Ground’!
The first Love Your Burial Ground event at St John the Baptist saw families children, 9 in total we think and volunteers meet up in the churchyard for a combination…
The backpack project: delivered
Couriers have been booked to pick up the packed backpacks for Mary’s Meals in Malawi. We are thrilled that the backpacks for Mary’s Meals in Malawi have been picked up…
Ecochurch for Trinity Sunday
Why are you using paper towels? can you switch? Environment and refugees, lifecycle analysis of hand drying
Ecochurch for the seventh Sunday of Easter
Why are you flying – Can you stop it? Antibiotic pollution of worldwide water courses; and are we bent on our own destruction
The Village Day 2019 in review
Village Day offered the opportunity for people to meet their parish church team, and for us to share events and offer pastoral support as appropriate. A team from All Saints…
Ecochurch for the sixth Sunday of Easter
The ecochurch: minimise ‘useless’ plastic when shopping, zero waste cities are possible and biodiversity in burial grounds
The Eco Church collection: The fifth Sunday of Easter
The Eco Church Wakelets
5% of donations to foodbank come via @acnbchurch
More than 5% of the food donated to Romsey Food Bank came through @acnbchurch collection points. Food is collected to support Romsey Food Bank from all the churches in @acnbchurch….
Ampfield Lent Lunches raise £400+ for Romsey Food Bank
Ampfield Lent Lunches are running for the second year this Lent. Over four weeks so far more than four hundred pounds has been raised for Romsey Food Bank. Lent Lunches…
