Doors / Saturday 13th September

We will be gathering round a table over a simple meal for the start of the new season, to reflect on how we might together lean into our values in the year ahead. The framework for our thoughts is the 30th anniversary update of our ethos, or statement of values, which guides us as a community. All are welcome to join us.

Barbecue / Saturday 12th July

This year the Grace barbecue is at the church, on the patio outside the Polygon. There will also be some prayers. The weather forecast looks very good!

Please bring some food to put on the barbecue and something nice to drink. All are welcome.

Prospect Wood / Saturday 14th June

The next Grace on Saturday June 14th will be a day at Prospect Wood in Sussex. We will be there from late morning to late afternoon, mostly just enjoying the wood and each other's company, with food, drink and some prayer.

If you would like to come please email us a.s.a.p. at freshinfo@freshworship.org so we can give you more info and organise lift shares and so on. All are welcome but please don’t leave it until the last minute!

Encounters / Saturday 10th May

We are unable to use the church this month due to an event, so we are meeting in the Rose & Crown pub next door at 8pm (although you can be there earlier if you like!). We'll be thinking about the appearances of Jesus after the resurrection over our drinks.

Flip the script / Saturday 12th April

Join us for the second Grace in Lent.

We all have scripts, stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it. Jesus has an uncanny knack of flipping the script of those around him, re-storying the world. We will be looking at one encounter where he seems to do just that and ponder what the invitation might be to us. A mix of reflection, conversation and imaginative prayer.

St. Paul's Cathedral Labyrinth 25th anniversary / Saturday 8th March

Grace in March falls exactly 25 years since the Labyrinth in St. Paul's Cathedral - which ran 6th-10th March 2000. So please join us for an anniversary walk.

We will be using our own labyrinth cloth, so the stations will be set up outside the labyrinth rather than on it. This is how it originally worked - the labyrinth itself was about our relationship with God, and the stations were about our relationship with ourselves, others, and the planet. When we ran it in St Pauls we had to put the stations onto the labyrinth in order to manage the whole thing - but we had the space to make the labyrinth itself much bigger.

For this labyrinth the music and meditations are listened to on individual music players with headphones, so please bring a phone or other music player, and your headphones. You can download the tracks on the Labyrinth website here, or just play them in the browser on your phone. We'll have some extra music players too. In 2000 we used CD Walkmans - if anyone has one they can bring it too, we will have a few CDs! iPods hadn't been invented yet - and we dreamed of being able to transmit the tracks wirelessly to people's headphones...

There will of course be a cafe afterwards. All contributions of food and drink welcome.

Dust / Ash Wednesday 5th March

Prayers for Ash Wednesday 8pm at St Mary’s Church, led by Jonny Baker. A reflective service to begin the season of Lent which will include the imposition of ashes. If you are not familiar with that come along anyway and find out about it. It will be accessible.

Ambient prayer / Saturday 8th February

Join us for the 5th edition of Ambient Prayer. Space to breathe, a candle, an image to consider, silence to rest in for a while, prayer.

There will be a café afterwards.

Look back - move forward / Saturday 11th January

Join us for the first Grace of 2025. Walking the labyrinth provides us with a quiet space with time to reflect on the past 12 months and look ahead into 2025.

There will be a café afterwards.

Smoke is rising / Saturday 14th December

Advent is a season in which we look forward in anticipation and longing for another possible world when all things are made new, when Christ returns, when there will be no more injustice. That longing in the run up to Christmas is also waiting in hope for Jesus Christ to come into the world as a sign of that incoming future.

Join us for an evening of longing which will be expressed through song, art, prayers, poems written and made by those who are there. If you would like to contribute then do let us know. There will be a cafe afterwards with mulled wine and mince pies.

Remember / Saturday 9th November

Chris Rose, Director of Amos Trust, will be speaking about the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank. The service will be an act of remembrance and a call to empathy and action.

Cafe afterwards, all welcome.

Ambient prayer / Saturday 12th October

A low-key service with space to think, ponder and pray. There will be images, music and occasional guiding thoughts. Join us for space to think.