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)
Harvest gifts provided by St Giles School and harvest flower and produce displays
The Vacancy: The PCC Standing Committee (Churchwardens, Secretary and Treasurer) are working on arrangements for the vacancy. There will be a process of discernment about future ministry in the parish. The Rural Dean, Revd Christopher Powell, shares oversight of the parish with the church wardens during the vacancy and can be contacted on 01444 471783 or vicar.wivelsfield@gmail.com .
During the vacancy contact our wardens Barbara Fairweather or John Whiting for all church matters.
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The charity
collection during November and December is for Family Support Work
(FSW). FSW has been helping children and their
families across Sussex since 1890. You can find out more about
their work here
.
Donations can be made using orange envelopes in the collection plate 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.
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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 2025 & January 2026 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 2025 APCM took place on Thursday 15th May. You can still view the relevant reports and the agenda below.
Annual Report and
Financial Statements 2024