St Michael's Church, Stoke Gifford
Living to make a difference
Our monthly prayer breakfast is now back in person! Come along to St Michael’s Centre on Wednesday 27 July at 7.30am for prayer and worship, followed by a light breakfast together.
We meet in Seminar Room 3 (at the end of the new corridor on St Michael’s Centre)
All welcome!
We are One Church, with a Vision to be a Christian heart at the centre of our communities.
We live to make a difference, through learning and growing together, sharing Jesus together, and serving together.
We encourage these things locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. To make our vision happen, we hold 2 gift days a year. One in November to support day-to-day ministry, and this one to support our resources and buildings.
Our gift day last year saw 10% of all we gave given away to our Mission Partners, with a special emphasis on alleviating the effects of the Covid pandemic. We also put a serious dent in our mortgage for the Church Centre.
For 2022, this scripture seems relevant:
“Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means” 2 Corinthians 8:11
We have 4 main aims this year:
We are so very close to completing the Heart of the Community project. How can we each play our part to make it happen, together?
Updated 3 July
There has been an amazing response to Gift Day so far with an amazing £330k pledged, thank you! This will enable the work in St Michael’s Centre on the corridor to be completed and the kitchen to be installed, which is wonderful news!
Following a meeting of the trustees on Monday 29 June we will be giving away £33,000 (10%) and we have now instructed to the builder to complete the kitchen as well as the arches.
If you haven’t yet pledged, please do so if you can. We still need to repay loans of over £1 million and would like to encourage regular giving via standing order, even a few pounds given every month will make a difference.
To set up a standing order, please use the following bank details:
Sort Code: 30-62-32
A/C No: 348005560
Payee: St. Michael’s Church Centre Ltd HOTC
Reference: Surname
2 Corinthians 9:11: “You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.”
Of all the financial gifts made to the project, we’ve committed 10% to support our mission and outreach partners elsewhere in the UK and around the world, you can read more on the latest tithe donations made here.
On a very warm Thursday the staff team was supplemented by a great bunch of volunteers to clear the arches in St Michael’s Centre (Thanks to Phil, David, Andy, Freddie, Johnny, Jacob and Dan).
We are now ready for the builders! The foyer is now filled with items for re-storing in the new room configuration.
The ground floor Arches Corridor (beyond the Resources and Seminar Room), is the last remaining construction phase of St Michael’s Centre.
Finishing this work will bring five more rooms into use, plus a kitchen. This will meet the demand from our own ministry areas , as well as from external hirers.
At their meeting on Monday 17 February 2020, the St Michael’s Centre Trustees agreed to award the contract to Stone BCI Ltd, the company that worked with us to complete the balcony and the offices. Work was due to start in April, however this has been postponed due to Covid-19. We hope to make a start on it on 15 June.
