Highgrove Weekend Away 2024

The sign up page for Highgrove Weekend Away 2024 is open!

The weekend away will take place in Hebron Hall Christian Centre in South Glamorgan, with easy access to beaches and Cardiff. It will be from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th of July 2024.

Sign up by clicking the link below! You can book for the whole weekend or if you can’t make it for the whole weekend you can also sign up for just the Saturday.

Tickets for the whole weekend is £80 for adults, £65 for young persons and £50 for children (under 5 tickets are free), or for day visitors £10 for adults, £10 for young persons and £5 for children (again, under 5 tickets are free). However, we don’t want cost to be a barrier for people to attend, so if you are concerned about cost, please speak to Ed or contact him using the link below as there are a number of discounted places available.

Number of places is limited so do book quickly! It will be a fun weekend - looking forward to seeing you there!

Here’s the schedule for the weekend:

Easter events

Easter is nearly here!

Do check out what’s going on around Highgrove this week. We have a Good Friday reflective service in the evening of Good Friday, an Easter sunrise service on Easter Sunday, and an Easter celebration later on.

Check out our Easter events here.

Looking ahead beyond Easter, we have The Noise coming up during the May bank holiday. Deadline for registering is April 7, so do get signing up!

And of course, Highgrove Weekend Away is happening July 5 - July 7! Don’t forget to sign up, as places are limited!

Salt Shakers

Salt Shakers is back! This is our messy church group for family with primary school children, run jointly with St. Edyth’s Church. Sign up below!

Christmas page is live!

Can you believe that Christmas is nearly here?

We’ve got lots of exciting events going on during December on the run up to Christmas. Check out our Christmas page at www.highgrove.church/christmas. Here’s a quick list of what’s happening.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Event on 17 November - Concert Worship Evening

Notice about Sunday 29 October

An important notice about Sunday 29 October!

There will only be one all-age service at 11am, with refreshments at 10.30am. There will be no children’s provisions. This will be a Harvest Service, and there will be a chance to donate items to the Bristol North West Foodbank. You can find out here about items they need.

Looking forward to seeing you there at 10.30! And remember the clocks go back by one hour on Sunday morning!

Salt Shakers Glow In The Dark Party

Autumn is here! The days are also getting shorter - but fun stuff can still happen!

We would love to invite you to the Salt Shakers Glow in the Dark party, happening on October 31, from 4.30pm till 6pm at St Edyth’s Church. It’s a lighter alternative to Halloween, aimed at primary school aged children and their families. There will be some games, crafts, hot dogs and sweets, with a short message on glowing in the dark. It costs £2 per family and you pay at the door.

Sign up at www.highgrove.church/glow - we would love to see you there!

Salt Shakers is a group put on by Christians from the churches around Sea Mills.

Salt Shakers

Hope you’ve all had a good start to the term so far!

Just a note to flag up the upcoming Salt Shakers event on 29 September. Salt Shakers is our new monthly group for families with primary school aged children. There will be games, crafts, and fun to be had. We will also provide dinner. You do need to sign up at www.highgrove.church/saltshakers. It costs £2 per family, and you pay at the door, but if cost is an issue then please do chat to the lovely team on the day or email us at hello@highgrove.church.

Do be praying for the event and for the team!

Back to normal!

Just a reminder that our normal pattern of two services at 9.30am and 11am will be resuming starting this week! Refreshments will be served between the two services at 10.30am. We’re also streaming our 9.30am service online.

This week we will be starting our new series called Prayers of the Saints. Hopefully see you there!

Important notice about August

We very much love meeting up as a church family on Sundays. But you may or may not have noticed that there are of lots of things going on behind the scenes involving lots of volunteers! So during the summer we want to honour them and give them a well-deserved break.

That’s why during August we’re only running one service at 10.30am, with refreshments and garden play starting from 10am. It will be an all-age service.

We will keep reminding people throughout July that this is happening, but please make a note in your diary so you don’t forget or turn up at the wrong time - although you will still be very welcome! And if you’re interested in helping our volunteers, why not check out our volunteering page here?

Highgrove Summer of Fun

Summer is here! Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine.

At Highgrove we are having a string of events during the summer - aptly titled Summer of Fun! There is something for everyone. Have a look below:

List of events we’re putting on this summer.

If you want to find out more about each event, do visit the Summer of Fun page (www.highgrove.church/fun). Some events need signing up for so be sure to remember to do that!

A Rocha Act for Nature Event

On Saturday, 24 June 2023, join A Rocha UK’s CEO, Andy Atkins as we discover how Eco churches are incorporating care for God’s creation as part of their mission. We’ll be joined by friends from Hazelnut Community Farm - a Gold Eco Church and an A Rocha Partner in Action - as well as Delyth Higgins, Eco Church officer from the A Rocha UK Eco Church team. It will also be a great opportunity to learn and share more of your experience of campaigning for nature - and ‘speak up’ together for nature through a simple action.

Click the button below to sign up for this event. It’s free!

Easter Events

It’s nearly Easter! As a church we are putting on a few events. They are listed below, or visit our Easter page for more information!

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From Monday, 3 April to Wednesday, 5 April we are hosting a garden trail called Explore Easter. This is a free event and is suitable for all ages! There will be chance to be creative as well as reflective as you follow the trail. Perfect to invite your friends and family to! Please allow an hour to fully enjoy the trail.

On Maundy Thursday, 6 April from 8-9pm you can join us at Highgrove for a time of solemn observance of Jesus' passion and death. The service will allow for quiet meditation through communion, prayer, Bible readings, increasing darkness and silent reflection. You don’t need to book, just turn up.

At 7am on Easter Sunday we are at the top of Shirehampton Golf Course for a short service to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection along with other churches in the area. Then join us for an Easter egg hunt, crafts and hot cross buns in the church garden at 9.30am before a family celebration in the church building at 10.30am. We will serve refreshments starting at 10am, so even if you can’t make it for the hot cross buns, you can still catch up with other people with some tea and coffee then!

Hopefully see you at any or all of the events!

Important note about Sunday, March 19

Please note that there will only be one service on Sunday, March 19 2023. There will be refreshments served at 10.30am for a 11am start. The service will not be streamed online.

It will be led by members of Devotion, our youth group, and promises to be an exciting service, so do come along!

Women's Clothes Swap this Friday!

Muddy Church Pancake Party - 25 Feb 2023

D-groups

We’re putting on D-groups again for Lent! Don’t forget to sign up - you can sign up below! Sign up closes on Sunday 26 February. You don’t need to know who you are going to be in a group with, just let us know and we can link you up.

Events Coming Up

Here are some great events coming up that you might be interested in. You can click on the images to find out more and sign up for each event.

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Bible School - 19 February

Wholeness course - 21 Feb

New ID course - 22 Feb

Naturally Supernatural with Mike Pilavachi - 25 Feb

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Hope to see some of you there!

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Discipleship Groups (D-Groups)

This week we are very excited to launch our Discipleship Groups (D-Groups for short) for the Lent period.

The Bible is essential reading for Jesus’ followers. Jesus himself said,

“ Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. ”

— Matthew 4:4

The Bible is God’s word, and it’s where we encounter God and how we get to know him better. But it’s often quite hard to commit to reading the Bible in the busyness of daily life. We need other people to encourage us and keep us going!

So for this Lent period we are starting our D-Groups, a group of 3, 4 or 5 people who commit to reading the Bible everyday and meet each week to discuss about the passages they’ve read. Here’s a video from Ed and Deb explaining it in more details:

As explained, we will be starting on March 2 and continuing on until April 17. Do visit the D-Groups page on the website to sign up!