Ride & Stride / Heritage Open Day – 10th September

Ride & Stride / Heritage Open Day – 10th September Join us for guided tours to learn the history of the building and our links to Swindon’s Great Western Railway. Visit areas of the church not normally open to the public, and hear demonstrations of the church organ in the wonderful acoustics. The building will

Holy Week & Easter 2021

Our services for Holy Week right through to Easter Sunday can be found below.  All are welcome to come and join us for any of our services.  Services will be held in church and broadcast on our Facebook Page. Palm Sunday – 28th March 11am  Family Worship for Palm Sunday. Good Friday  – 2nd April 2pm

Lent Group 2021

This year’s Lent Course will take place on Zoom starting on Ash Wednesday at 7pm. We will be using the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2021, “Living His Story” by Hannah Steele. There is no need to read the book to attend.  Each week we will start at 7pm and finish our time together with

Advent Sunday

This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent, and the start of a new liturgical year.  Advent is a season of hope as we prepare to celebrate Christmas and the birth of Christ. This year, we need the hope of Advent more than ever as our world is very different to last year.  We can

Rodbourne Helping Hand – Christmas Joy

Rodbourne Helping Hand – Christmas Joy Earlier in the year at the start of the first lockdown, a group of people set up the Rodbourne Helping Hand Group to help those who were struggling during the lockdown.  It was amazing seeing our community pull together at a difficult time to help those in need. As

Remembrance at St Augustine’s

Our services and events for Remembrance are: Remembrance Sunday – 8th November 2020 – 10.45am – Remembrance Service The service will be streamed on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/swinstaug Our annual service for Remembrance Sunday where we will remember the 80 men named on our war memorials, and all those who have died in conflicts

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates Following recent changes in the Government guidelines during the Coronavirus outbreak, from 13th June, we are able to open the church for individual prayer and reflection, providing that social distancing measures are maintained. To ensure we have the correct, and most safe, measures in place, the church will re-open for individual prayer

VE Day – 75th Anniversary

On Friday 8th May, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day – when the Second World War ended in Europe. We will be broadcasting a special service service of commemoration and remembrance for the 75th anniversary at 10.45am on our Facebook page.  The service takes the form of a service or prayer and reflection,

CANCELLED Lent Group at our Midweek Service

Studying the Lord’s Prayer and what it means During Lent we’ll be using the Pilgrim Course to look deeper at the Lord’s Prayer – familiar words, that we pray often at St Augustine’s, but don’t always get a chance to reflect on what it says about God, what is says about us and how Jesus