The Parish of Wargrave with Knowl Hill

Reach out, Draw in, Build up, Send out

Missions, Away Giving & Links to Resources

Like all churches, we exist within a wider Christian and World Community. This page provides you with some links to our community, organisations with which we are associated, and sources of information on worship and spiritual development.

Unless they are marked as internal, all the links are external and therefore beyond our control. The external links should open a new window. If any link fails, try refreshing the page (e.g. by pressing F5 in Internet Explorer). If it still fails to show, close your browser and try again. If that fails, contact Mike Buckland, who looks after this page.

The Local Church

The parish has three churches - St Mary's Wargrave, St Peter's Knowl Hill and St Paul's Warren Row - offering a variety of services and worship styles to suit every taste.

We belong to Sonning Deanery, a group of 16 parishes roughly corresponding to Wokingham Borough, under the leadership of Revd Canon David Hodgson (Area Dean) and Martin Hughes (Lay Chairman).

Our Parish and the Deanery is part of the

The Diocese of Oxford

There are five Church Schools within the parish.

Wargrave has an active social, cultural and sporting life in which church members are well represented. Wargrave News Online provides information and contact points.

The Wider Church

The Church of England

Anglican Mainstream is a community within the Anglican Communion committed to promote, teach and maintain the Scriptural truths on which the Anglican Church was founded. These also guarantee its fellowship with Christians down history and throughout the world. Faithfulness to Scripture as God's Word is essential for sharing the love and purpose of God in Jesus Christ.

Anglican Mission in England for promoting mission, biblical church planting and the selection, training and deployment of ordinands for mission and ministry authentically based upon the Bible and our Articles of Religion in the Church of England. It is about protecting unity with those Anglicans looking in on the Church of England and assuring them that they can still maintain unity with us. It also enables Anglican ministers to remain within the Church of England, and gives a true basis for unity among evangelicals within the Church of England and across the Anglican Communion.

Anglican Communion Official Website

World Council of Churches

Missions & Relief Organisations

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Our Missions Action Team manages our regular giving. The charities we help are listed below in our Missions and Relief Organisations panel. Contact Verna Houghton for more information.

Tearfund

and Traidcraft Church rep: vacant - volunteer needed to take over from Michael Carver

We are a Fairtrade Church and a member of the Wokingham Fair Trade Campaign. Click here for a list of Fairtrade Churches in our area. Church rep: Mike Buckland

Christian Community Action Church rep: Mike Buckland

Support CCA by shopping online here. Amazon, M&S, Littlewoods, Asda, eBay, Thorntons and many more (the choice of shops may vary).

London City Mission Church rep: Verna Houghton

Yeldall Manor Church rep: Felicity Beatty

The Children's Society (supported at our Christingle Services, held every Advent in our village schools)

Environment

Organisations
A Rocha Christian nature conservation organisation

Eco-Congregation          Guidance for churches from A Rocha
Christian Ecology Link   Portal for UK environmental issues
Friends of the Earth       UK pressure group
The John Ray Initiative    Scientific think tank

Home & Shopping
Ecotopia                       Environmentally friendly shopping
Ecotricity                      Green electricity and gas
iMeasure                       Home energy monitoring calculator

Recycling
Recycle Now                 What you can recycle where
Recycling Appeal           Mobile phone & printer cartridge recycling
Cartridge Recycling        Printer cartridge recycling

Other useful links
Ethical Essentials Environment & ethics : useful practical ideas
Greater Reading Environmental Network Local chat forum

Opportunities

If you are thinking of short-term work overseas, a GAP year or sabbatical, or just wish to know more about a particular charity or area of service, the following members of our church may be able to help you:

Counselling: Jane Poirrier, Jane Shaw, Salome Laschinger

Persecuted Church: Support group: Lucy Willis. Christian Solidaritty Worldwide rep: Mike Buckland.

Languages (teaching & translation) - Angie & Mike Buckland

Bible Society - Jane Clark

Drug rehabilitation (Yeldall Manor): Peter Emms, Felicity Beatty, Linda Pasmore

Orphanage in India - Lesley & Steve Turville

This is not an exhaustive list. It is intended to help you connect to a country or area of service you are interested in, and/or explore how you or someone you know can use their God-given gifts to serve His church.

Anyone seeking vocational guidance should contact our clergy. Also, Christian Vocations serves the UK church for this purpose.

Spiritual support, Worship resources