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2025

The Tenpenny Villages Benefice of Alresford, Elmstead and Frating with Thorrington

As church families, our vision is:-

"To draw closer to God and to each other so that we may more ably bring his love to the world."

We want to make a difference in these communities for God.

25th January 2025 at 7.30 pm

Admission £5 on the door.

Silver Lining

The Hoolies

Pauline Hart Associate Priest

A copy of the data privacy notice for each church can be found by clicking on the name of the church at the top of this page.

We are committed to safeguarding children, young people, victims/survivors of domestic abuse and vulnerable adults. 

The PCCs have adopted the Church of England’s policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England’s website.

https://www.churchofengland.org/more/safeguarding

Details of Parish Safeguarding Representatives can be found on the noticeboards in each church. Our Parish Safeguarding Representatives can be contacted via safeguarding@tenpennyvillages.uk


Safe spaces-supporting survivors of church related abuse, email: safespaces@victimsupport.org.uk      Tel: 0300 303 1056


Andrew Fordyce MBE  Rector

Services at St. Andrew’s, Alresford (StA), St Anne & St Laurence, Elmstead (StAL) and St Mary Magdalen, Thorrington (StMM)


Recorded services from St Andrew’s and St Anne & St Laurence are available on our YouTube channel. For the latest version of our Noticesheet, please click here. Information on enquiries to our Benefice Office can be found on our Contact Us page. Further events and meetings can be found in our Calendar, please click here.   























* - For Zoom link please see noticesheet


For a link to our facebook page, please see below. If you have any specific prayer

requests please send them to prayer@tenpennyvillages.uk (These will be kept

confidential)                 

Rev Andrew Fordyce and Rev Pauline Hart

Day

Date

Time

Church

Service

Sunday

19th Jan

9.30 am

StMM

Morning Worship (Valerie Harper/Judith Clayton)



10.00 am

StAL

Holy Communion (Pauline Hart)



11.00 am

StA

Morning Worship (Julie Thompson)

Monday

20th Jan

9.00 am


Morning Prayer on Zoom *



10.30 am

StA

Friendship Circle



2.00 pm

StA

Lead & Preach Team meeting

Tuesday

21st Jan

9.00 am

StA

Morning Prayer



10.30 am

StA

Tuesday Tots



2.00 pm

StA

Knit 'n' Natter

Wednesday

22nd Jan

9.00 am


Morning Prayer on Zoom *



10.30 am

StA

Start Up Café  

Thursday

23rd Jan

9.00 am

StA

Holy Communion



4.30 pm

StAL

Rainbow Guides @ Elmstead Cricket Club



6.00 pm

StAL

Brownie Guides @ Elmstead Cricket Club

Saturday

25th Jan

7.30 pm

StA

Live Music @ St Andrew's - see info above

Sunday

26th Jan

10.00 am

StAL

Holy Communion (Phil Ritchie)



11.00 am

StA

Holy Communion (Pat Prestney)



11.00 am

StMM

Plough Sunday @ The Red Lion

(Pauline Hart/John Jinx)

To find out how you can give to the churches in the Tenpenny Villages benefice, please click here

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We are delighted to announce that the Tenpenny Villages Benefice has been awarded a Bronze Eco Church Award.

To view our Bronze award certificate, please click here

The aim of the Eco Church award scheme is to celebrate the ways that church communities have been engaging with caring for the earth as a key part of our Christian faith.

For more information, please click on the Bronze Award logo on the left.