Welcome to St Mary’s church, Fishponds!

Nestled in an oasis of green in the urban sprawl of northeast Bristol, next to Fishponds Park, the congregation of St Mary’s Fishponds has been worshiping God and serving our community for over 200 years. We offer a warm welcome to anyone who wants to come, wherever you are on your journey through life and faith, through hospitality, worship, prayer and pastoral support. As half of the benefice of All Saints and St Mary, we work closely with our partner church All Saints. We believe in a God who is compassionate and surprising, just and merciful, and we would love you to join us.

Coming Up

This week:

• Week beginning Sunday 26th July 2026

  

  This past week the Holiday Bible Club was blessed by a visit from the Saltmine Theatre Company. With their gifts and talents in writing, acting and teaching, Emily, Anisha and Frankie guided us through the “Lost” parables in chapter 15 of the gospel according to Luke.  After retelling the parables in their own, original style, they guided the children through different approaches to telling the stories.

  Not many of us have the skills to stand up on stage and present bible stories to children. However, God has given us all different gifts. The Holiday Bible Club needs many gifts from singing to first aid, from teaching to making lunch. It is only by working together to combine those gifts that the Holiday Bible Club can happen.

  This is true in life and in the church. God calls us to work together, to use our different gifts to do more than any of us could do on our own. This is a central message of Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth. He reminds us that, just like the different parts of the human body, God made us all different so we could work together to do more than any of us could on our own. (See 1 Corinthians chapter 12.)

  So, I would like to thank Saltmine for their contribution to this year’s Holiday Bible Club.  I would also like to thank everyone else who was involved to make a joyful, thoughtful and creative couple of days.

  This Sunday is the fourth Sunday of the month, so we have Holy Communion at 08:00 at all Saints and 10:00 at St Mary’s. At 10:30 at All Saints we have Café Church, where we will continue our journey through the gospel according to John. At Café Church this month, we will be reflecting on the idea of Identity in the light of Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s well. This story is in the fourth chapter of the gospel.

  This gives the following services for this Sunday, 26^th July:

  08:00	All Saints	Holy Communion (said)
  10:00	St Mary’s	Holy Communion
  10:30	All Saints	Café Church

  In the coming week we have our usual midweek services. Next week is the first Sunday of August, so there is Creative Church at St Mary’s at 10 am and Evensong at 6.30 pm. At 10.30 am there will be Holy Communion at All Saints. This gives the following services for the coming week:

  Wednesday 29th July		All Saints	09:00	Celtic Morning Prayer
  Thursday 30th July		St Mary’s	10:00	Holy Communion
  Sunday 2nd August		St Mary’s	10:00	Creative Church
  		All Saints	10:30	Holy Communion
  		St Mary’s	18:30	Evensong

  We thank God for all his gifts and blessings and pray for the wisdom to use them together for the service of others and to his glory.

  Yours in Christ

  Mark

If you wish to worship at home, you may find this service helpful.

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