The Downs Benefice

This is the official website of The Downs Benefice Winchester, Hampshire.

We aspire to be a vibrant Christian Community with Jesus at the heart of our ministry - making a difference.
We aim to do this by being a relevant, welcoming, inclusive worshipping community, embracing all people, serving others and sharing the message of Jesus.
And we want to do this with humility, grace, love and prayer.

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Notices in brief...

For all the notices and more information, please see our Notices page

In Emergency

The Benefice Office

(01962 880 845 / office@downsbenefice.org.uk) is open from 9am to 5pm, Mondays to Fridays, however if you need to contact a minister in an emergency outside of these hours, please call either:

Revd Kevin Rogers: 07584 162 594

Benefice Office: 07857 512 053

Further information about the phone line is available

here

The Downs Benefice Safeguarding Information and Contacts

If you are concerned that someone you know is at risk of, or is being abused, or presents a risk to others, please seek advice from a Safeguarding Advisor or if necessary report the matter to the Local Authority Social Care Services or the Police without delay.

If you have any concerns please email the appropriate Safeguarding Officer

(email addresses below)

Chilbolton - stmarythelesssafeguarding@gmail.com

Crawley - stmaryscrsafeguarding@gmail.com

Littleton - stcatherinessafeguarding@gmail.com

Sparsholt - ststephenssafeguarding@outlook.com

Wherwell - stpeterandholycrosssafeguarding@outlook.com

or contact the Safeguarding Administrator c/o The Benefice Office

Tel: 01962 880 845 -

Email:

Benefice Office Safeguarding

or the Diocesan Safeguarding Officer:

Jackie Rowlands - Tel 01962 737 317

Diocesan Safeguarding Officer

Prayer Requests

If you have any prayer requests, for any concerns lying on your heart or to give thanks, please email the office on office@downsbenefice.org.uk

All prayer requests will be made anonymous before being passed on to our Prayer Team.

Parish Magazine Deadline

Copy for June/July edition of the Benefice Parish Magazine should be submitted by 12.00 noon - Friday 9th May.

Prayer for Thursday 24th April

God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.

Sunday 27th April

The Second Sunday of Easter

19am - Holy Communion (BCP) - Wherwell

10am - Morning Worship - Littleton

10am - Morning Worship - Sparsholt

4pm - Bubble Church - Chilbolton

Please click on the Sunday Services tab (above) for details of services going forward.

'Church service for little ones every Sunday!’

4pm at St Mary-the-Less, Chilbolton

Bubble Church is a Sunday church service especially for babies, toddlers, and

young families. It's a puppet-packed, Jesus-centred, coffee-and-food fuelled,

30-minute kids and families adventure.

Here's the deal: you turn up 10 mins before it starts for a snack and coffee,

then you'll be guided to a 'bubble', and you and your little

ones will share in 30 mins of song, story, puppets, and prayer.

Sunday 27th April

Book NOW!

Our Churches are open for Individual Private Prayer at these times:

St Mary the Less, Chilbolton	All day	Every day
St Mary's, Crawley	All day	Every day
St Catherine's, Littleton	All day	Every day
St Stephen's, Sparsholt	10am - 4pm	Every day
St Peter & Holy Cross, Wherwell	10am - 4pm	Every day

Daily Readings

Daily Prayers

Benefice Mission Partner

Our Benefice supports Karis Kids

Karis Kids

Karis Kids is an initiative, started in 2007, which brings hope to children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. The Christian charity integrates these children into, and supports them with, adoptive families. The aim is to place orphans with the families of relatives, but when this is not possible, then with other households in the local church, St Paul's, Kampala. The majority of those in the parish live in the Okuvu slum, and this is one of the poorest areas of Kampala.