Welcome, and thank you for visiting the Shirley Parish website.

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Our website is arranged to reflect our commitment to worshipping, growing, caring for each other and our local community, and acting to make the world a better place. Please use the tabs at the top to explore, or click on one of the images below to go straight to one of our key pages.

If you would like to get in touch, please click here. We would love to hear from you.

Our Worship

St James Church building is now open for

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• Parish-wide services on Sundays and Thursdays. Both will start at 10:30am. See here for how to book your place.

• Private prayer on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10am - 4pm. ​(12 noon-4pm on Saturday 19th June.)

Our online, on the phone and on the page worship continues as before. Links are here.

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News and Updates:

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16th June: It's Messy Church this Saturday, 19th June. We're thrilled that for the first time in what seems like forever, we are going to be holding a small Messy Church In Real Life for a few pre-booked families in the grounds of the St James' building. But sad that there's not room for everyone who used to come. So we have also uploaded everything on to the Messy Church at Home page here, so those families who are not able to attend in person can still take part. We hope you have fun thinking about how we can care for God's beautiful creation, whether in person or at home.

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16th June: Please note that the St James Church building will be open for private prayer between 12 noon and 4pm on Saturday June 19th.

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16th June: Day 3 of the Church House garden makeover, and the grass has been laid...

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26th May: The June Parish magazine has been published and can be read here

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19th May: We are now live-streaming our Sunday Worship, rather than pre-recording and uploading to YouTube and the phone line. You can access the video livestream by going to the YouTube channel from 10.25am, and the audio livestream by dialling 0121 798 0196 just before 10:30am. The video and audio recordings will remain available on YouTube and the phone line from shortly after the service finishes. 

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The Pewslip for 17-23rd June is now available here.

Pewslips for previous weeks are here.

The Parish Magazine for June 2021 is available here.

Previous editions of the Magazine are here.

Please click on one of the images below to take you straight to that page.

We remember before God those who have died in the Covid pandemic and we pray that God's love will surround all who mourn them,

now and always

Gracious God,
as we remember before you the thousands who have died,
surround us and all who mourn with your strong compassion.
Be gentle with us in our grief,
protect us from despair,
and give us grace to persevere
and face the future with hope
in Jesus Christ our risen Lord.
Amen.

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Be Still..... and pray

May the Love of Christ

Surround us

The Light of Christ

Lead us

The Peace of Christ

Fill us

The Power of Christ

Aid us

The Joy of Christ

Thrill us

The Presence of Christ

Be with us evermore.

Amen.