Welcome to the St Barnabas' Church website!
St Barnabas' is a friendly Church of England parish church
on Rushet Road (just off Cotmandene Crescent) in St Paul's Cray,
Orpington, Kent BR5 2PU. Although the distinctive green roof is clearly
visible from a distance, it becomes more difficult to find our church the closer
you get and you may wish to consult the map.
Our aim is to keep connected to God
through prayer, worship and teaching to enable us to be connected to our
world, responding to the needs of our community and sharing God's love in a
way that transforms lives.
We try to provide a warm welcome to all
our visitors: if you're local to us, or visiting the area, we
would be pleased to see you at one of our services or social events. Wherever you're from, we hope you
find something of interest on (or through) this site or one of our
social media feeds.
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Videos
and Livestream events
Please join us for our pre-Christmas afternoon
of fellowship, mince pies and other refreshments. There will also be an
opportunity to sing some Advent carols as we look forward to the coming of Jesus
as King. Everyone welcome.
Our church is open for
regular services
Our church is open for regular services and we continue to gather weekly for worship together. We believe it is important to gather in person for
mutual encouragement and sharing Holy Communion in as safe a manner as possible,
but do not want anyone to feel undue pressure to attend until they are
ready. We will be delighted
if you can join us in Church physically, but if not then you are still able join us in worship from
home via Facebook or Zoom.
As the Church of England guidance on music, singing and
social distancing has now permitted changes to the way we have been conducting
our services over the last few months. The latest Church of England
guidance can be accessed online using the following link: Church
of England - Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for churches
It gives individual churches much more freedom to decide how they wish to
continue keeping their congregations safe as we approach autumn and
winter.
At St Barnabas we wish to maintain cautious
care for our fellow Church family members & neighbours, but with some slight
relaxing as follows:
- We will continue to ensure good ventilation with
fresh air circulation.
- We will continue with a degree of social distancing (including sharing the peace only from afar) whilst
indoors, and encourage socialising outdoors only.
- Our musicians will continue to be socially distanced
and will minimise sharing of materials.
- We will continue to distribute wafers only during
Communion for now.
- We will allow non-mask wearing whilst sitting in
services to ease discomfort.
- Singing will be being allowed, whilst it is fine to
choose whether to sing or not, masked or not.
We will continue to offer the possibility of joining our online
services each Sunday and the service will be available on Zoom and on Facebook
Live. Recorded services will still appear on Facebook and YouTube
for
those people who are unable to view our services live and wish to catch up later.
Anyone visiting our building is still requested to wear a face
mask, to use hand sanitiser and to maintain an appropriate degree of social distancing.
We will continue to keep a voluntary record of everyone who attends our
church for 21 days in case we need to refer people on for
contact tracing. If you are visiting our church for the first time you will be
asked to provide contact details, though this is no longer a legal
requirement.
The Healing on the Streets team from Churches Together in the Crays
will next be in Cotmandene Crescent on Saturday 18th December from 11:30am -
1:00pm to offer prayer for healing or anything else that is concerning you. Please feel
free to stop and chat with the team.
However, if you would like the team to pray for you, or someone you
know, but are not comfortable talking to the team on the day, we are still happy to do so if you get in touch with us either by email or
phone. Please let us know who it is that you would like prayer for and why. You
can request a call back to you, if you include your phone number in the email.
As always, anything you discuss is confidential within the team and several
members of the team will pray for you and your concerns.
Email: HOTS@ctitc.org.uk
Phone: 01689 831597
On this site you can find:
What do you think?
We welcome your comments on this site. Please contact
us with your comments or if you would like any other
information about the church.
Website last updated on 15th November 2021
The site is updated at least twice a month, please let us know if you spot anything out-of-date.
Contact: stbarnabas.cray@btinternet.com
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