Church Blog

Hambledon Church working with the Hambledon Greening group held our second Greening Festival in May 2023. The event was opened by Bishop Jonathan, Bishop of Portsmouth, and attracted interest from across the Diocese. Following a wet start to spring we were blessed with a warm dry day which encouraged participants to attend. There were various stalls from electric bikes to oat milk and afternoon tea and recycling tips to ideas for retrofitting to keep your house warmer and heat pumps. The school made wax food wrappers and Hambledon vineyard provided samples of their sparkling wine. The atmosphere was completed by Steve Wilkins and his band playing folk tunes. As previously the art groups provided their best work for display – the creativity was amazing! The [...]

There is to be a Meeting of Parishioners and Annual Church Meeting on Sunday 23rd April 2023, at 11:45am approximately, following the 11am service in the Church. Click here to see the ACPM report.

Paul Foster asked, ‘Where do we go from here?’ in June following Father David Morgan’s departure, and since then there has been a great deal of work behind the scenes. The Bishop is developing a roadmap for reorganisation within the Diocese which the PCC has discussed and responded to. The PCC have appointed Paul Quinn and Rachel Houlberg as our Parish representatives. One of Rachel and Paul’s tasks will be to rework to the Parish profile, which sets out our vision for the future life of the Church to be used in the appointments process. In order to do this, we intend to hold an open meeting following the 11am Service on 16th October at 12 noon to which all Villagers are invited. This will [...]

From the Pews…. You may have noticed as you have walked through the churchyard new signs, painted by Teresa Negus. They explain the church’s commitment to becoming an eco-church, and as part of that the rewilding of some of the graveyard. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this has proved to not be without controversy for those who visit their loved ones’ graves and find what they see as an unkempt churchyard. We hope our signs will go some way to explain to them that this is not the case, and perhaps look instead for the different beauty to be found in the rehabilitation of food sources and homes for our natural wildlife. Last year Hambledon church picked up a bronze award [...]

Click here to see our latest newsletter: Newsletter 28th August 2022

The last couple of weeks have been quite a whirlwind. It has been a time of lots of goodbyes; goodbye to my training friends at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford; goodbye to my training friends at Portsmouth Pathway; goodbye to my friends at St. Peter and St Paul’s in Hambledon and the benefice. The goodbyes came as I completed my theological training for ordination in the Church of England. Then began the hellos; hello to family and friends as we gathered at Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral for the ordination service on Saturday 2 July 2022; hello to my Vicar and new friends at St. George the Martyr parish, Waterlooville for my first Sunday service the following day. Goodbyes and hellos seem to be what Jesus asks of [...]