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School Tour>Our Church |
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Our Church |
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| Services |
| 1st Sunday: 6.45pm |
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Holy Communion BCP (with hymns and sermon) |
| 2nd Sunday: 8.00am |
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Holy Communion BCP (said) |
| 3rd Sunday: 6.45pm |
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Evensong BCP |
| 4th Sunday: 11.30am |
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Family Service |
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| Carol Service |
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December 17th at
2.30pm |
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| For all our service times see... |
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www.wincle.org.uk |
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Wincle has all that it needs: a church, a school and a pub! People argue about which of these should come first, but as the vicar I, of course, see the church as the centre of Wincle village! |
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St. Michael’s is a beautiful small village church that has existed in its current form since around 1870; though there are earlier testimonies of a church in the same location. |
| With Wincle being a rather small village (about 164 residents) the church no longer has its own vicar but is part of the combined benefice of Bosley, North Rode, Wildboarclough and Wincle. |
| My appointment in 2004 must have been quite a shock for everybody as I am Wincle’s first woman vicar, fairly young, with small children -and not even an UK national! In my native country of Germany I was a Lutheran minister. |
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| Since our own children attend Wincle School (very happily) there seems to be a natural link. I am not only “the vicar” who comes in regularly to take assembly, but also Jacob and Julie’s Mum. We frequently have other children from the school to play after school. |
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St. Michael’s is a traditional parish church where the Book of Common Prayer is still highly popular and mostly used for services. Nevertheless the congregation is very open and friendly and very keen to get families involved in our regular worship. There are now traditional services on three Sundays every month, with the exception being the fourth Sunday which is our well established “Family Service”. |
| The language is modern, the hymns are often the children’s choice (but they are not always children’s hymns!) and I do not give a sermon but a talk which is geared at children and their families. Often the school children will be involved – doing readings, saying prayers, taking the collection etc.. |
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We have had baptisms of siblings where the whole school got involved, and later this year four school children will be baptized in a special service.
The wonderful thing is that the “traditional congregation” will still come to these services. That is an expression of the welcoming nature of people here in Wincle!
Services have different times each Sunday but follow a set pattern (see left). |
Apart from our regular Sunday worship we mark all celebrations of the Christian Year with a school service at Church, such as: Christmas, Easter, Harvest, and Remembrance Sunday. A highlight every year is our Christingle service at the end of November. We also have a special service at the end of the school year to say farewell to the children that |
| are leaving. As I am German I have introduced a service at the beginning of September to welcome all children that are new at the school but particularly the new reception children. |
| I believe that the start of School life for every child is a very big and important step in their life and should be celebrated with a special service. There are other occasions when school and church come together. It is very much a close and mutual relationship. |
| Certainly all the children at Wincle School know their parish church well and hopefully most know that Church can be fun! |
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School children and their families at our Christingle service.
26th November 2006. |
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| Reverend Verena Breed |
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