St Swithin's Walcot

Here's James sharing from Acts 12 and thinking about prayer and the now and not yet of God's kingdom as we continue our year long journey through Acts and discover what God is doing among us in 2023.

Here's Suzi and Nicola sharing from Psalm 100 at our all age service as we took a break from our year in Acts.

Here’s Tim speaking from Revelation 4 as we took a pause from our year in Acts and set aside one Sunday to simply celebrate. There were some beautiful conversations around the room as we shared what we love most about God, before Tim encouraged us with what happens when we choose to worship and say yes to the living God. He challenged us to boldly approach God’s throne, to a God who is sovereign,...

Here's Tim sharing from Acts 11:19-30 and how God is the great encourager; how He brings life, how He takes the embers of who we are and fans us into flame, and how He calls us to burn brightly for Him the world.

God longs to use us in every season of our lives and He loves to reveal His plans to us. Is God calling you out of hiding? Is He calling you onwards? Here's Tim sharing from Acts 9:32 - 11:16 and how God reveals Himself, brings new life and leads us to new things, people and places. We apologise for the background noise on this recording. We hope to have fixed the problem by next Sunday.

We explored the theme of 'God's Mission' during our all age service. Rosemary interviewed Nicola to help us find out more about what God's mission is for us personally as well as how we help to support the mission going on through our wider church partnerships. We apologise for the audio issues on this recording. We are currently integrating a new system.

Here's John sharing from Acts 9 and helping us to think about who Jesus is, how He speaks to us and what we should do about it.

Acts 8 is a dramatic account of how the early church expands beyond Jerusalem. What will help us stand for Christ and play our part in God's purposes? James shares on how we first need to find our rest in God and how this principle played out in Philip's life and how Simon the Sorcerer missed out.

Here's Tim sharing from Acts 2 as we celebrated Pentecost.

Here's Suzi sharing on the Parable of the Lost Sheep from Luke 15 and Matthew 18 as we continue our series in 'The Parables of Jesus' across our All Age Services in 2023.

We’re spending 2023 in the book of Acts. It’s an amazing account of the birth of the church and throughout the text there are amazing details. This Sunday we looked at Stephen. A few weeks ago in Chapter 5 we looked at how the Christian life has significant up and downs, it’s not a story of endless comfort and pleasure, without challenges and difficulty. Stephen’s life encapsulates that, chosen as...

Better late than never... Catch up on our Good Friday reflections as we gathered to worship, reflect and remember what Jesus has done for us.

Here's David preaching from Acts 6 as we continue our year-long journey through the book of Acts.

Here's Tim sharing from Acts 5:12-42 as we reengaged with our year journeying through the book of Acts. Apologies for all the background noise. We were having technical difficulties in this service.

Here's Tim sharing from Mark 10 on Giving Sunday. To find out more about how to financially contribute to the life of St Swithin's Church, please go to https://www.stswithinswalcot.org.uk/giving.html

As we held our APCM (annual parochial church meeting) on Sunday, we took time to celebrate what God has done in the last year and look ahead to what he's calling us to. Here are some testimonies of God and work, some insights into various bits of church life as well as Tim challenging us to step out of hiding and to shine for God.

Here’s Tim sharing from Acts 4:32-5:11 as we returned to our year-long series exploring the book of Acts.

Here's John sharing on Easter Sunday and as we opened the gospel, to look at the resurrection of Jesus, we are confronted with big question... "What do we really believe?"

As we drew together our lent series on Listening to God, we felt it important to ask this key question... What kind of God are we listening to? We were absolutely delighted to have our friend Paul Wakely join us. Paul shared on the father-heart of God and God's ongoing invitation to us to come home to Him. No matter how far gone we may feel, God longs to be in relationship with us. The homecoming...

Here's Suzi sharing from Luke 10 as we continue our All Age series looking at the parables of Jesus.

On Sunday we took time to remember what God has done in the past, give thanks for what he’s doing amongst us today and look forward to what we believe God is calling us into. St Swithin’s is here to build a thriving church in Walcot for the display of God’s Splendour. - Isaiah 61:3. This is expressed as we;- · Connect with God, with one another, and with those around us · Discover the good news of...

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” - Saint Augustine. Here's Tim sharing from 1 Peter 2 and how our life's calling is centred upon a deep relationship with God.

As we continue to focus on listening to God throughout Lent, here's Tim sharing from Acts 13:1-3.

Here's Tim sharing from Matthew 13:1-23 as we took a weekend break from our year in Acts. Stay tuned for our monthly All-Age talk on the Parables of Jesus.

Here's John opening up Acts 4:1-31 to us and helping us step into Peter's shadow, an ordinary, flawed man, who grew remarkably and stayed strong in the face of incredible opposition by the power of the Holy Spirit.