St
Giles Church
Horsted
Keynes
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St Giles is a Church of England village church at the heart of this rural community. Our historic church has stood as a beacon in the village for over a thousand years ministering to all of the parish with God's love guiding the way.
St Giles Church encompasses all generations, with a strong youth involvement through our Primary school, a committed focus on families and a caring and responsive approach to our more senior members. All of this bonded together by prayer and united worship.
Please take the time to browse our website to find out what we have been doing in the name of God and to see what is yet to come and we look forward to seeing you at our forthcoming worship and activities.
Following our Lord’s teaching of the greatest commandments:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind”.
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” (Matthew 22. 37.39)
The Diocese of Chichester
is officially launching Celebrating Faith 2025 on Advent
Sunday, 1st December. A short video has been produced featuring
the three bishops and the Dean and you can watch it here.
You can find out more about what is planned for the year on the
website mentioned in the video https://celebratingfaith.co.uk.
All Saints Church,
Lindfield is hosting the Year of Faith Deanery
Celebration Service with Bishop Ruth on Thursday 16th
January at 7:30pm. You can look at the poster here.
Other special services and events for Advent
and Christmas
Saturday 21st December at
5:15pm - Carols on the Green outside the Crown
Tuesday 24th December at 4pm - Christingle
Service in St Giles
Tuesday 24th December at
10:00pm: Bethlehem Midnight Mass of the Nativity in
St Giles
Wednesday 25th December at
10:00am: All Age Eucharist in St Giles
Christmas
goods for Crawley Open House: Hilary and Helen are
planning to take some Christmas food and sundries to Open House before
Christmas. If you are able, please bring any mince pies, cakes,
cookies, crackers or anything else you think they might like to St
Giles next Sunday 15th December, or drop it off at Hilary
Nicholson’s or Helen Townsend’s houses or contact Hilary to arrange a
collection.
Thank you.
The charity collection during November and December is for Family Support Work (FSW): St Giles has been supporting this charity for many years. You can find out all about their work from their website. Donations can be made using orange envelopes in the collection plate, the electronic system at the back of the church or posted in the post box at the Martindale. There is a stock of orange charity envelopes in the Martindale porch.
The Prayers for the Annex continue on Monday mornings at 11.30am in St Giles Church.
During these difficult, stressful times do remember that HK Help and HK Prayerline exist to help parishioners in a practical or spiritual way. You can find more details here.
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St Giles
takes safeguarding very seriously and you can click here to view our Safeguarding Policies or here to look at the the Diocese's Safeguarding
pages.
Thelma Mason is the Parish Safeguarding Officer and you can access her contact details here
Click here for the latest, December 2024/January 2025, edition of Parish & Parishioner Magazine.
The Welcome Pack for new residents to the village is available here.
Gifts of money to the Parish are invited here
This takes you to a secure
site. It is designed for one-off donations with options to make a Gift
Aid declaration and have a receipt sent by email. If you are thinking
of committing to regular donations please visit the Giving page.
The 2024 APCM took place on Thursday 25th April. You can still view the relevant reports below
Annual Report and
Financial Statements 2023
Annual
Group Reports for the APCM 2023