Activities
The Parish is very active with many groups catering for outreach, prayer, bible study, socialising, children and young people. These include J-Club and Tadpoles for young children, Mother’s Union, The Meditation Group.
Our pastoral group supports the clergy with the regular visits and home communions to a number of individuals, the regulars, those temporarily house-bound, and care homes.
The Parish is also well resourced with a number of different teams such as the bellringers, the serving team, sidespeople (always welcoming!), and Social Committee. Woosehill run a very successful prayer chain.
More details about all these :
Some of the charities supported:
- Soulscape – a local charity involved in a number of initiatives in local schools including ‘The Lounge’ in The Holt and The Emmbrook secondary schools.
- USPG – supporting global mission
- Home-Start – a country-wide charity providing a local community network of trained volunteers supporting families in the area
- Children’s Society – supported through our annual Christingle Services.
- Link Visiting – changing lives through friendship. Combating loneliness.
- Yeldall Manor – drug and alcohol recovery centre.
- Christian Blind Mission (CBM) – Global Disability Inclusion.
As well as financial help, members of the Parish also give practical support within Soulscape and Home-Start.
Soulscape
A Parish team works with Soulscape to run The Lounge at The Holt School to provide a weekly lunchtime session for year 7. The churches also support a Soulscape team at The Lounge in The Emmbrook School.
The Parish helps with the initiative to take groups of youngsters to visit local churches and to hear about what they do.
This is an initiative to ease the transition from primary to secondary schools. Parishioners help in The Holt and The Emmbrook Schools.
Soulscape is blessed to have the support of St Paul’s, Woosehill and St Nicholas’ Churches.
Michelle – Operations Manager
