Ways to support our Church

Thank you for thinking about how you can support us.

As well as being a beautiful and historic building St Mary's Parish Church thriving church provides a focus for our worship, a witness to God’s love and a welcome to all.  We have exciting plans to develop our buildings further, to extend our work with young people and to reach out to those in need in our community.

In response to God’s love, we are called to live gratefully and generously and that includes using our time, our abilities and our money in God’s service.

So we’ve summarised below some possible ways you can support us.  Please contact us if you want to find out more on any of the subjects below.

 

A. Financial Giving

Maintaining this cathedral like building and its running costs is an expensive business.  We also have exciting plans to develop our buildings further, to extend our work with young people and to reach out to those in need in our community. Our running expenses amount to over £650 a day and we find it  diffficult to make ends meet. 

Click  here to find out why it costs so much to run St Mary's Parish Church and how you can support us financially.

B. Supporting us through prayer and worship

You can support St. Mary’s by your presence at our services, and by your prayers, whether at home or in church or with others. Our Prayer page on this website has lots of ideas about other ways you can support and join us in prayer.
 

C. Giving of your time and talents

If you count yourself as part of our congregation then please do think about how your time and abilities can best help us. Here are some of our activities that you may be able to help us with:

• cleaning and maintaining our church so we can open it every day to welcome all;
• decorating our church with flowers and banners to enhance its beauty;
• visiting the sick and housebound and comforting the bereaved;
• helping at school assemblies and/or our youth and children’s groups;
• helping prepare couples for marriage and families for baptism;
• organising support for our linked missionaries and our adopted charities;
• showing the love of Christ to all through our care, comfort and compassion;

or for other ideas, why not have a look at our various groups to see which you might best be able to help?
 

D. Joining our Electoral Roll

If you’re a regular church attender and 16 or older you may become a member of our Church by filling in this Electoral Roll Application Form – and making the declarations on it or contact our Electoral Roll Officer - electoralroll@stmaryssaffronwalden.org.  The Electoral Roll is simply a “Church Membership” list and entitles you to a vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting at which the members of the Parish Church Council are elected. Please download this form and complete and either email it to Hayden Rocks at electoralroll@stmaryssaffronwalden.org or post through the Parish office letterbox or hand to any Welcomer in church.