Parish of Westborough – Guildford

  Rae Barbour of St Francis Church spent two days in the kitchen baking up delights for a cake sale held after our morning Service this week, raising £200 to be donated to the Nav Jivan Project. Nav Jivan is an area that sits in one of the poorest parts of India. The people of […]

Baptism of Hazel Marie Dokubo And Matthew Ditum “Let the children come to me” Jesus said “for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these”. And indeed the children did come to begin their journey as children of God, when on the 10th July Hazel And Matthew.    were Baptised. Witnessed and celebrated with a […]

    Celebrations for the Queens Birthday A celebration party for the queens 90th birthday party was held at St Francis with an afternoon tea on Sunday 29th May. There was a right royal quiz, musical entertainment, a raffle and even a prize for the best head adornment!     Thank you to all who supported the Queen’s celebration […]

  Children of st Francis church and 1st st Francis Rainbows donate 100,s of toys and books to the Royal Surrey Hospital appeal        

    Richard west from St Johns Stoke, came to preach at St Francis as part of the celebration for the 150th Anniversary of Lay ministry.

  Jamie, who comes from our church and parish before he went off to university and attends when he is home is taking part in this amazing event. What an inspiration. Let us pray and give them all our love and support in this wonderful cause. A group of students, Jamie included, will be visiting […]

During the next 8 days St Francis church will be open for anyone wishing to use it for a quiet time for prayer or reflection. Twice a day prayer will be led for one hour by myself 08.00 – 9.00am, but the church will remain open after that, and between 7.00pm – 8.00pm   Stay […]

  CELEBRATION TIME!!! To the Glory of God we will be celebrating Diane’s ordination to the diaconate, which in practice means, 1 year as Deacon and the following year we pray another service to the Priesthood. Due to the building work currently going on at the cathedral the service will be held at the beautiful […]

  Arch Bishop’s call for Prayer The week between ascension 8th may and Pentecost 15th May, the Arch Bishop’s Justin and John have invited all churches to join in with a special week of prayer. Churches all around the Anglican Communion will be setting up venues for prayer to be said 24hours a day for […]

  Thank you to everybody involved, £500 was raised through our Lent lunches at St Francis for the flood appeal to help the community suffering from floods in Radcliffe earlier this year. The Radcliffe Parish Church of St Mary, in Church Green, was among the worst-affected locations hit by the devastating floods. Out in the parish,  the sheer […]