Dear friends, I am thrilled to be joining you in Clacton and Jaywick in September and wanted to write to introduce myself and my family. I grew up in Sudbury and Ipswich, the son of a vicar and a nurse. At a young age I developed a deep love of Read more…
Thanks to all the groups in our church who contributed to our APCM reports for this year. Also, my thanks to all those that attended the meeting after mass on the 18th May. There was a lot that we all accomplished over the past year; which was impacted on our Read more…
Many thanks to those who contributed towards our APCM reports this year, and also those who took time to attend our meeting at the end of May. It was a great opportunity to reflect on th many things we have achieved in the last 12 months and to consider our Read more…
We are celebrating Corpus Christi on Sunday 11th June – why not join us? After such a successful round of evensongs, we are preparing something a little special for this Christian festival where we remember Christ’s presence with us in the Eucharist – our meal of bread and wine. If Read more…
We are really excited about the launch of our Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade here at St James’s. It has a been a long time since we have had the resources and young people to be able to undertake any youth fellowship, but with our growing numbers of young Read more…
Thank you for visiting our website. If you’d like to see more services and events going on at St James’s and St Christopher’s then why not sign-up for our online newsletter or follow us on Facebook? We endeavour to publicise as much as we can on our website, but our Read more…
Hear at St James’s and St Christopher’s we run a full programme of days and courses to help us explore faith, deepen our discipleship or learn new skills. As part of our stewardship of time we are encouraged to commit to study. To sign-up to one of these course take Read more…
Friends of Essex Churches Trust We announced the a few days ago that we had been successful in our approach to the Friends of Essex Churches Trust for repair works to St Christophers. The grant was a generous £7,500 and we encourage friends at St James’s to give thanks in Read more…
When is this service? We run this service once a month at 4pm at our Church in Jaywick, St Christopher’s. It’s always on the 3rd Sunday of the month. Some of the upcoming dates are listed here: 18th Oct – 14th Nov – 20 Dec – 17 January -21 February… Read more…
Please take a look atet reports from the parish in anticipation of the APCM. Financial reports are available in the welcome area at St James’s for anyone who would like to scrutinise the accounts before the meeting. Click below to view… APCM 2019:20