About us 
Here at St. Augustine’s we are a little low on young families, although there is a large hard core number of workers. The commitment is total! It has to be!
Attendances are not brilliant, but we couldn't afford to employ people to help us with crowd control anyway! On a good Sunday, we have a little over 50 at the 11am Family Eucharist, and around 12 or so at the 9am, Prayer Book Service.
Music tends to be “modern” rather than with the organ, worship is liturgical, but in the main fairly informal, and we're not afraid to start again if we get it wrong!
Probably the biggest thing ever to happen since the building of our church is the Restoration, which reached its conclusion at the end of the summer of 2003, one hundred and thirty years after the building was erected. This caused much excitement and interest in the town, and the weekend of 23rd - 24th August 2003 was earmarked for special celebrations.
The congregation is inclusive in its attitudes, welcoming opportunities for ecumenism, and grasping opportunities to serve the people of our town. The Restoration Programme and all it entailed is documented elsewhere, and now the plan is to replace the temporary church halls with a new structure aimed at making opportunities to love and serve the community in a prime-site area, at the bottom of the High Street. Work is due to begin by January 2009 and will take around 9 months to complete.
You will now have concluded that we are open to change and are willing to take chances and risks to move forward. That is how every Parish should be! We sometimes disagree about how this should be done - but, hey- it makes for an interesting life, and we never fall out with each other! Living the Gospel should be an adventure, an exciting challenge, and we tend to deal with a God of Surprises!
2002 marked the revival of The Friends of St Augustine’s, and we have a broad spectrum of events that keep us all going! As a result we have a regular flow of income while we enjoy ourselves!
