Friends of Brenchley Church and Churchyard
The maintenance of our church building and churchyard must both be financed entirely locally; we receive no external grants. If you would like to become a 'Friend', supporting financially this maintenance (NOT the Church's mission and ministry), please contact the Vicar or Churchwardens - who will be very happy to sign you up! Also, if you would like to help in person in the churchyard this too would be most welcomed.
Digital/Online services
On the day, click the link below to view the live stream.
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Campbell has recorded a video of the 8am Communion service for anyone who would like to play and listen to on a Sunday morning. Find the video on video page.
The following links are to the sermon's by Campbell delivered via the digital services. I suggest you join just before 10am: it is free.
PRIVACY STATEMENTDuring the filming of our ‘streamed’ live services, the camera is mainly focussed on those at the front of the church - those leading the worship, the Bible readers and those leading the prayers.However, during the course of the service, the person operating the camera may occasionally swing it round to catch a brief glimpse of the congregation. If you do not wish to be ‘caught’ on camera but would still like to participate in the service, you are invited to sit in the North Aisle (pews on the left-hand side as you face the altar).
This area is also reserved for those who wish to remain masked during the service and use ‘socially distanced’ seating. It is therefore assumed that any readers, including parents of children reading, have given their consent to be filmed. Should this not be the case, then please let the person filming that service know prior to it starting.
Furthermore, at Communion Services, no one participating in the taking of bread and wine will be filmed.
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A Declaration
Teaching & Pastoral Care at All Saints’, Brenchley
In these changing and uncertain times - especially as regards the content and interpretation of the Christian Gospel - I wish to reassure visitors that the teaching at this 'middle-of-the-road' rural village Anglican church is in agreement and conformity with The Jerusalem Statement produced by the Global Anglican Fellowship which upholds the orthodox, historical understanding of the Scriptures and the Creeds as the supreme authority for Christian belief and practice. As such, the welcome and pastoral care of all human beings is at the heart of our church's life in accordance with the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Rev Campbell Paget MA (Cantab),
Vicar of Brenchley
21st August 2022
Study groups during Lent (28 Feb – 28 March)
‘Not a Tame Lion’
On Tuesday evenings (8 – 9.30pm) and mornings (10.30 – 12) in Lent we will be holding study groups to which all are most welcome.
Study Groups are a wonderful opportunity to study God’s word to us, sharing and answering questions, deepening our faith, and growing together in confidence as members of our local church family. No previous experience or academic qualifications are necessary!
We would all like a religion that kept us within our comfort zones; but just as the Aslan of the Narnia stories is not a tame lion, neither is the Christ of the gospels always a comfortable Saviour, saying and doing things that are often unexpected and deeply challenging.
Nor is ‘Not a Tame Lion’ a comfortable Lent course. In following the scriptures, the writings of C S Lewis – e.g. ‘The Screwtape Letters’, and the films based on them – ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe,’ and ‘Shadowlands’, it leads inexorably to some hard and nowadays unfashionable subjects -suffering, sin, heaven, the Devil.
Lent of course was never intended to be a time of comfort but of honest reflection and self-denial before the liberating joy of Easter.
Discomfort is no longer fashionable as an aid to spiritual health and beauty even if any amount of discomfort seems to be allowable in the pursuit of a six-pack, size 6 jeans, or a wrinkle-free smile. C S Lewis acknowledged that Christianity is ‘a thing of unspeakable comfort’ but that that is not where it begins. Making the most of Lent involves much more than the token giving up of chocolate, even if the by-product of that is that you can then fit in to those size 6s!
Rev.campbell.paget@gmail.com 01892-722140
