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The Redruth Team Ministry
With a population of about 19,000 Redruth is one of the largest benefices in the diocese of Truro; it includes the
town of Redruth as well as the villages of Four Lanes, Carnkie, Lanner and Carnmenellis as well as a large rural area.
There are five churches including St Andrew Redruth. St Euny is less than a mile from St Andrew on the edge of the
town, St Stephen Treleigh is on the north side of the town, Christchurch is in the village of Lanner and St Andrew
Pencoys is on the edge of the village of Four Lanes.
The team is currently served by 2 stipendiary posts plus a curate, as well as retired clergy and support from the
rural dean who is a priest in Camborne nearby.
Revd Shirley Harrison is team vicar for St Andrew Redruth.
Revd Peter Fellows is a retired priest and serves as Team Vicar for Christchurch Lanner and St Andrew Pencoys,
Peter was born in 1948, ordained in 1988 and came to Redruth in 2005.
Revd Canon Eddie Woon retired in July 2013 and continues as Team Vicar for St Stephen Treleigh.
Eddie was born in 1943, ordained in 1996, and serving in Redruth from 2004.
Revd Angela Brown is Assistant Curate in the Team. Born 1958.
There are three active Readers/Licensed Lay Ministers, Jim Seth, Judith Williams and Margaret Duplessy.
There are three other retired clergy active in the team, mainly offering occasional Sunday and weekday duties. (See
the Team Website for details of the full team)
The team employs an administrator for six hours a week, mainly to help us with diaries, calendars, the newsletter
etc who works from the office at St Andrew’s. The main team communications are a weekly newsletter, a monthly
magazine, and a regularly updated website; www.redruthchurch.org.uk
Ecumenical Links
There is an active formal “Churches Together” group in Redruth that meets for breakfast on the first Wednesday of
each month in St Andrews Crypt.
The ecumenical scene throughout the Benefice is not strong but there are improving and promising relationships.
Key partners are the Methodist churches in Four Lanes, Carn Brea Village and Redruth. We share regular pulpit
swaps with Redruth Methodist Church( RMC), there are joint Lent groups and other occasional activities. Town
“civic” events tend to alternate between St Andrew’s and RMC.
We also work with Redruth Baptist Church, a large independent Baptist congregation as well as the new branch of
the Newquay Christian Church on the industrial estate in Redruth, and the Salvation Army. There are some
theological tensions but there is also a willingness to make things happen and to put the things that unite us first.
Redruth Benefice, poverty and regeneration
The Benefice includes some of the poorest parts of Cornwall, which is one of the poorest Counties in the UK. There
are many workless households with significantly high numbers of claimants, particularly those claiming benefits
related to disability. Redruth and Camborne together have very low levels of educational achievement among adults,
although local schools are now good and improving. There are very marked inequalities of health locally. Redruth
town centre has suffered a severe economic decline with many shops vacant and even a number of derelict sites in
prominent places.
The paradox is that Redruth is still a centre of industry and economic activity. The town is ringed with industrial
estates which provide employment over a wide area and which are part of the economic powerhouse of Cornwall.
Cornwall as a whole and the Redruth area in particular have benefitted from significant levels of investment,
including Funding from the EU.
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Person Specification
The Benefice Mission
 Connecting with and worshiping God
 Focus of faith for the community (e.g. weddings funeral and baptisms)
 To provide friendship, fellowship and family for the existing congregations and the wider community. (e.g.
providing a space for public use and social activities)
 Linking with other Christians through Churches Together
 Involving and providing support for young people, the elderly and the old.
Person Specification – you will
 Be an experienced and organised team manager having the ability to identify strengths and gifts and
encourage their use.
 Have Vision for:
o The Benefice as a team with a common and shared aim but be prepared to spend time with each
church to listen to their individual needs and work with them to achieve these within the context of
the overall Benefice Mission
o Spreading the good news of the gospel through the wider community
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Have excellent communication skills
o Being pastorally minded, visible and engaging in church and community
o Using a wide range of methods to engage and inspire.
o Being a listener who responds and keeps everyone informed.
o Championing the benefice within the diocese and beyond.
o Presenting the needs, hopes and plans of the churches with authority and passion.
o To liaise with outside bodies such as Cornwall Council, local MP and other secular institutions.
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Have a commitment to growth, both in spirituality and in numbers.
Be energetic and enthusiastic
Have some experience of youth work
Have experienced or have perspective of life beyond the church.
In developing the Benefice as a team you will
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Know the attributes and limitations of the entire ministerial team to enable them to fulfil their various
vocations. (Priests, retired and stipendiary, readers, worship leaders etc)
Be able to utilise skills within the congregations (and connected community?) whether practical, pastoral or
professional to enable their use across the team.
Help us to listen to each other’s needs, encourage interaction between the churches and negotiate a way
through our differences.
Build upon the work of “Churches Together” to foster ecumenical links.
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St Andrew Redruth
Redruth’s parish church is at the heart of the life of the town. We are opposite the library near Redruth Station. Our
main service is on a Sunday at 10:00am and is a rich blend of music,
reflection, movement and prayer. We use incense and colour to bring all the
senses to God in worship. The Second Sunday of every Month at 10am is the
Worship For All service which is especially planned with families in mind.
There are some Sunday evening services and weekday services are: Monday
at 6pm Wednesday at 10.15am and Saturday at 9am. We also hold special
services throughout the year including a Good Friday meditation service led
by Dhiworth-an-Gollon (our singing group), a Carol service in which the
music is provided by the town band and a very popular and ever growing
children's service on Christmas eve where the church feels as if it might
burst apart at the seams. Everyone is welcome to all our services!
Each week during our service, four enthusiastic leaders work with our small group of
lively and interested Sunday Club children. We consider this a very important area of our
church life and we are committed to growing our work with children and young people
through the years to come.
As well as our work with children we are also committed to supporting the elderly and
vulnerable in our community. With this in mind we recently set up a pastoral ministry
team. The five team members visit people from our congregation who are sick or
housebound and in future are hoping to offer such things as baptism, wedding and funeral
visits as well as expanding the work into the wider community.
St Andrew’s also has a hall, toilets and offices downstairs (known as The Crypt) which
makes it a centre for use by the local community. At the moment the crypt is used each
weekday and evening for a variety of activities. On offer are Pilates and dance classes, Al Anon and Miscarriage support groups, Brownies, Guides and a very successful home
grown craft group. Each first Saturday of the month we hold a flea market and at
Christmas -together with St. Euny and St. Andrew Pencoys - we run a craft market. The
crypt is also used for private functions such as birthday parties, wedding anniversary
celebrations and charity concerts.
As a congregation we enjoy lively social fellowship throughout the year and our active and enthusiastic social
committee come up with many interesting and diverse ideas for us to not only fundraise but also to get together and
just enjoy one another's company.
Here at St. Andrew's we are very keen to promote the importance of
the arts within the community and feel that this is a key area where
we can provide a major focus in the town. Every October we produce a
"Musical Extravaganza" which has become very popular and is an
excellent vehicle to which non churchgoers can be invited. Also every
two years we are a venue for the Cornwall International Male Voice
Choral Festival and have great pleasure in hosting many wonderful
choirs. This June sees the start of our new venture - an Arts Festival
week where we aim to highlight St. Andrew's place within the
community through a celebration of the creative arts. Planning for this
is still in progress but so far we are able to offer art exhibitions, flower
arranging and cookery demonstrations, talks on a variety of subjects,
craft and art workshops and a ‘Flashmob’ choir in the town centre.
We are ambitious for St Andrew’s and believe that it is ready to be lead in growth and outreach as part of a team
ministry where joys and challenges can be shared. St Andrew’s, like Redruth, is rich in potential and this post is seen
by us, the deanery, and the diocese as an investment to try and release some of that God-given potential. Our vision
is that St Andrew’s might be a growing church that becomes a resource and focus for the team and other churches in
the area. We are looking for an exceptional priest who is excited by these opportunities and ready for the challenge.
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There are some really good resources available in St Andrew:
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strong goodwill and productive relationships in the community
landmark buildings that are basically sound with good opportunities for renewal
the willingness and commitment of the people of St Andrew’s
a coherent deanery vision and diocesan support
St Andrew’s will need to change and grow in new ways. We are praying for a priest with vision and courage to reveal
the wonders that God has in store for us.
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ST EUNY CHURCH, CHURCHTOWN, REDRUTH
St Euny Church is the ancient, parish church of Redruth and there has been a church on this site since 550 AD. The
church is very light and airy and is of Georgian design with a Tudor bell tower. It has undergone a number of
revisions over the years, the latest being completed in October 2014 at which time we installed indoor toilets and a
small kitchen. The church is regularly maintained, water tight and with a sound roof. A brand new and more
efficient gas central heating boiler and water system was installed in October 2014.
Several pews have been removed to make a better circulation space and space for activities, ie yoga, dancing, art
exhibitions, storytelling.
There are currently 38 people on the Electoral Roll.
We hold our DCC meetings every three months with a committee of nine and are part of the Redruth Team Ministry
and Redruth PCC.
WHAT WE DO AT ST EUNY CHURCH
Weekly Sunday service 11am – 1st, 2nd and 4th Mass; 3rd Sunday Morning Praise (non-Eucharistic) 5th Sunday
optional service.
Weekly Tuesday Mass 10.15am
Festivals: Easter and Christmas
Additional services, i.e. Feast (1 February); Pet Service (August) and Mining Sunday
(September)
Lent and Advent Groups, currently held in conjunction with Carn Brea Methodist
Church
Pastoral Services – Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms. Over the past three years
these services amount to:
2012 – HM 13 HB 6 FUNERALS 10; 2013 - HM 18 HB 19 FUNERALS 13; 2014 – HM
15 HB 9 FUNERALS 3
Monthly House Group
Yoga
Tower Bells
Handbells
Art exhibitions
Fundraising activities which also double up as church social occasions, ie wine
tasting, curry evening, ladies pamper evening, luncheons, pampered chef, coffee
morning, Christmas wreath making workshop.
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OUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
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To continue our weekly services of worship and to encourage recently retired people to join our
congregation.
To continue to be of relevance in the community offering our pastoral services.
To continue to encourage groups to come into church for various activities.
To work with agencies/groups in the community, ie schools and history groups
To encourage overseas visitors to include St Euny Church in their itinerary.
To engage with social media – we have a website page: www.miningchurch.uk and a Facebook page both of
which are updated regularly.
St Euny is a popular church for weddings. There are already three weddings booked for 2016.
To do more outreach into the community, particularly with local junior and secondary schools. We are currently
working on heritage projects with Trewirgie Junior School under the leadership of teacher, Dan Simons and Redruth
School under the leadership of their Deputy Head, Paul Annear. This is being brought together by the Heritage
expert and Director of Kids in Museums, Jenie Macindoe. A grant of £400 has been secured from the Cornwall
Community Foundation to pay for Jenie’s time and expertise, plus printing of the heritage trail and costumes and
materials for the children. We are also in talks with Kim Cooper of the Cornwall Studies Library to do tandem
heritage work with them.
2016 also looks to be an interesting and productive year in the church diary with local art and performing company
Wildworks wishing to perform an outdoor promenade production, celebrating some of the many important and
diverse people in the St Euny graveyard. This will be adapted into a play and although in the early stages, work has
already begun with Sue Hill of Wildworks, local historian Michael Tangye and other local agencies.
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ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, PENCOYS with CARNMENELLIS, FOUR LANES, REDRUTH
A simple, beautiful Mission Church, built and consecrated in 1881, the vision of Mother Maria
Charlotte Broadley, the wife of the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Carnmenellis (now sadly gone)
on which the church is modelled. Carnmenellis, featured in the name of the parish, lies about
three miles away, towards Helston. The church stands at the side of the B.3297, Redruth to
Helston road, about 2.5 miles south of Redruth, and a quarter of a mile from the centre of the
village of Four Lanes. It is the home of the original pipe organ on which Thomas Merritt, the
renowned Cornish composer, created some of his finest works, including his internationallyfamous Christmas carols.
The main aims of our church are:
Through liturgy and outreach, to encourage each other in faith and bring the Good News of God’s love to the
community we serve. To enable us to achieve this more successfully, our priorities are:
THE BUILDING: to convert the church into a multi-purpose centre for religious services and community activities,
which will necessitate selling the hall to fund its re-ordering and renovation. (Legal work is at present being
undertaken to establish ownership of the hall.)
What the building means to us: It is somewhere to meet others for worship; the peaceful centre of village life, a
place of learning and a branch of Heaven; a focus for celebration, care, support, growth, safety and security.
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE: To involve and provide support for the young. At
present it is difficult to organise and sustain activities for the children of the village.
This has prompted our quest to improve the facilities offered, to provide a childfriendly environment, to increase our involvement with the local primary school and to
offer musical and weekday events and youth activities with leaders.
What children and young people mean to us: They are the flourishing present and a
potentially fruitful future, through whom it is hoped that a lost generation will be
encouraged to return. The young and their various groups represent renewal, energy and new ideas and need to be
able to meet in a safe, caring environment, where social awareness and responsibility can be nurtured.
How the aims are achieved & what are we offering at the moment:
The church is open every day for use by the community as a quiet place for prayer and reflection; it is welcoming
with fresh flowers. It is clean, with a toilet available, and has good lighting, informative posters, a sacred space,
hand-worked dedicated artefacts of memory and a small area with toys and books for children’s activities. For
young people and children we offer the monthly STAMP service, Sunday school, baptism, links with the school, an
annual Crib and Christingle service and letting the hall to various groups such as Mothers & Toddlers and the
Brownies.
With 22 members on the Electoral Roll, the church has a small, but active, congregation. The District Church Council
meets regularly, and, as members of the Redruth P.C.C., sends representatives to its regular Meetings, and also to
meetings of the Benefice Team Council, comprising the three P.C.C.s of Redruth, Lanner and Treleigh.
It enjoys strong links with:
Christchurch, its sister Anglican Church in Lanner, with whom regular activities are shared under the name of LAMP
(LAnner Meets Pencoys):
1) A themed monthly First-Sunday Evening worship Event, alternating between the churches, when
donations are invited to support a charity connected with the topical theme; this includes a ‘bring & share’
Harvest Supper Service (September or October)
2) Regular monthly Bible Study (at Lanner), last Monday afternoon (normally 4.30 p.m.);
3) Holy Week/Easter Events, alternating annually between the two churches:
Maundy Thursday evening Seder Mass + Holy Communion with Footwashing + Watch;
Good Friday Meditations; Holy Saturday evening : New Fire of Easter (from which the flame is kept alight
overnight to be taken to the other, non-hosting, Church on Easter morning)
Easter Day: Sung Holy Communion at both churches.
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Four Lanes United Methodist Church, with whom regular worship is shared (each first Sunday per month, alternating
between churches), the Blessing of Palms on Palm Sunday and the village Remembrance Day Service with wreathlaying at the village’s bi-lingual (Cornish/English) lych gate memorial. The possibility of establishing a Local
Ecumenical Project (LEP) with the Methodist Church is at present being addressed, and it is hoped that the two
traditions may be linked more closely by the future appointment of a dually-licensed (Anglo-Methodist) Minister.
Advent and Lent study courses for both churches are held at the Methodist Church. Both congregations are faithful
supporters of each others’ social and fundraising events.
The local community, with three regular monthly activities in Pencoys Hall:
(1) Quiz, first Saturday evening; (2) Flea Market with Soup & Sweet Lunch (known as ‘Jumblefood’), second
Saturday, and (3) Family Teatime Celebration at 4 pm on the last Sunday. The Summer Fete with Food normally
replaces one of the Summer ‘Jumblefoods’.
An annual ‘Bring & Share’ Christmas Day Community Lunch is held, for those who would normally spend Christmas
Day alone. This sometimes also happens at Easter, depending on individual commitments.
St. John the Baptist Church, Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada, our ‘Prayer Partners’, with whom we exchange regular
prayer. The partnership was established over 35 years ago, when a former worshipper emigrated to Quebec with
her husband and initiated this valuable link, which has been faithfully maintained. Visitors from Canada are always
welcomed, the last occasion being in September 2014.
The Church (Pencoys) Hall, is used weekly by several groups and societies: Brownies; Mother & Toddler Group;
Martial Arts Club; a Children’s Centre Outreach Group; a Rock Band; an Acrobat (for practice) and a Camera Club.
The Wednesday Club, for the more mature, meets twice monthly.
It is also hired for special events, birthdays and other parties and meetings.
Over 20 kneelers have recently been sewn in
memory of loved ones.
Each Christmas a Book of Dedications has
been produced and there is a service followed
by the blessing of the Tree of Lights.
Patterns of Services: Regular Sunday service: 11.15 a.m. Sung Holy Communion
3rd Sunday of the month: STAMP (ST. Andrew’s Monthly Praise, non-Eucharistic, all-age) 11.15 a.m. & said Holy
Communion, 4 p.m. (Alternate first Sunday Holy Communion shared with the Methodist Church, as above)
Seasonal Services
St. Andrew Patronal Festival, 30th November, (shared alternately with St. Andrew, Redruth), usually on or about
Advent Sunday– an evening event. When falling on the first Sunday in December it normally becomes that First
Sunday Evening Event. (see ‘LAMP’ events, above)
Christmas events: The church hosts an annual Christmas Tree Exhibition, when local groups and other team
churches are invited to install a small tree in a church window; and a Christmas Bazaar with Food (Hall), normally
on the second Saturday in December (replacing ‘Jumblefood’).
Christmas Services: A special Service is held about a week to ten days before Christmas, when dedicated Lights of
Memory illuminate the lych gate holly tree and loved ones are remembered in special Books of Memory. This is well
attended by the local community, with refreshments after the service.
Christmas Eve: Crib & Christingle Service, 5 p.m. and Midnight Mass of Christmas at 11.30 p.m.
Christmas Day: A said service of Holy Communion at 11 a.m., followed by Christmas Community Lunch.
(See ‘community link’).
Festival of Lessons & Carols: Always held in Christmastide on the first Sunday evening after Christmas (not 26 th,
St. Stephen), occasionally on New Year’s Day, when entitled ‘Epiphany Carol Service’. In 2015 the Festival will take
place on Sunday, 27th December.
Palm Sunday: Blessing of Palms at 10.45 a.m., and procession from Four Lanes United Methodist Church to
St. Andrew’s Pencoys, for sung H.C. at 11.15 a.m.
Holy Week: Said Holy Communion + Stations of the Cross , Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Day: (Please see LAMP Services, above)
Ascension Day: (Team) Sung Holy Communion service, evening.
An open-air evening service of Holy Communion and Commemoration is celebrated annually on the site of the former
Holy Trinity Church in Carnmenellis Churchyard, around the grave of our Foundress, on the Thursday nearest the
birth of St. John the Baptist (24th June).
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Christchurch Lanner
Lanner is a large village on both sides of the main road into Falmouth. It as a parish council, a mixture of housing, a
primary school, two public houses, a garden centre, a recently refurbished village hall, a small supermarket, post
office and shop, a fish- and chip shop and a bakery. There is both an Anglican and a Methodist Church. The village of
Lanner has several clubs and societies, a dance studio and is well known for its band and band academy; such
groups are all independent of the churches.
Within this diverse community Christchurch exists to:
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Promote the Christian Faith and the word of God both in the village and its surrounding communities.
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Be a place of worship, welcome, belonging and outreach
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Strengthen unity between other denominations and churches
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To encourage the young as it plans for a secure yet exciting future
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Be a place which welcomes performance of all types and from people of all abilities
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With its liberal and inclusive approach to theology the gathered congregation seeks to be ‘Christlike’,
welcoming and enabling all to discover their faith and God’s purposes for them. Ft is supported in this with
occasional and joint services and social events by St Andrew, Pencoys, through an informal grouping known as
LAMP (Lanner Meets Pencoys)
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Christchurch is open each day from 9am – 5pm and a visitors book is in the church porch. Regular and
special services and events are known throughout the community through the village welcome booklet, notices in
the local press, posters the Christchurch face book page, the Benefice web-site and the monthly Benefice magazine:
“Five Alive”
WORSHIP:
Sundays 1, 4, 5: Sung Mass; 2: CHAMP / an interactive all age event; 3: Family Mass
1: A ‘First Sunday’ evening event is shared with St Andrew, Pencoys A small Sunday School is always available
during the Sunday Masses
Wednesday: Said Mass (Book of Common Prayer)
Other services are held as appropriate and when needed e.g. a joint service for
Remembrance Day with the Methodist Church
EVENTS:
Christchurch hosts a regular monthly Bible Study for the Benefice Churches, and provides Advent and Lent Study
Groups which is also supported by members of the local Methodist congregation. Following its current aim to be a
venue for musical and cultural events and groups, there is a Spring and Summer Concert Season.
FUNDRAISING
There is a monthly jumble sale and funds are also raised through retiring collections at the concerts. Other
fundraising events eg. social, charitable and liturgical are held when needed and when appropriate.
CHURCH HALL
Although in need of refurbishment, the church hall is the venue for church events and a
rehearsal space for a ‘big band’, a local amateur theatre group and the home to a youth
project which, in addition to regular weekly meetings has used the church buildings
for a summer holiday theatre week. The youth group, which is the youth division of a
charity fundraising project called ‘Don’t Stop Believing’. This group, known as the
‘DSBeenies’ has ‘faith’ links with Christchurch, not only through its use of the building
but through its leaders. The hall is also a teaching space and provides revenue through
its regular and occasional bookings.
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CHARITABLE GIVING
Christchurch supports an educational programme in Nepal, raises funds throughout the year for various charities
and is involved in charitable giving through the ‘First Sunday Event’ the organisation of which is shared with St
Andrew, Pencoys.
COMMUNITY LINKS
Members of the gathered congregation are involved in various clubs and societies within the village. The Lanner
Band and the Band Academy have both been involved in the life of the church through both the liturgy and through
concerts. Members support various events at the Methodist Church. The church plays an important part in the life of
the village school, providing both assemblies and fortnightly religious education teaching. Classes from the school
also visit the church. The church provides a beautiful venue for the occasional offices, which although few in number
are always successful and well attended.
THE FUTURE
Christchurch has an outstanding maintenance group who plan to continue to improve both the facilities offered by
the church hall and church building. However, there is an awareness that there needs to be a radical review of its
work in- all areas. Of particular significance is a review of its- current ‘plant’ and the repairs and renovations that
are necessary. Thinking outside of ‘the box’ the congregation have considered:
1. a land swap where a developer would provide a hall and much needed improvements within the church in
exchange for building land 2. the demolition of some of the existing ‘plant’ and with grant funding create a community centre with a worship
space, residential accommodation (possibly sheltered and with Christchurch having nomination rights) and space
for meetings and social events
The people at Christchurch recognise the need for change and we[come the challenge to secure the future of the
Christian faith in Lanner and the surrounding communities.
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St Stephens Treleigh
St. Stephens Treleigh
Treleigh church was built in 1856 at the instigation of the Reverend Manley who was its vicar for 37
years.
Prior to its completion the parish services were held in the local blacksmith’s shop. The church is
situated on what was the original A30 road, with two large industrial estates on its doorstep along with
a busy pub, a hotel, an animal hospital and a large primary school which is at present undergoing
further enlargement and there is also Pre- school on the same site.
The church enjoys a wonderful relationship with the school and they use our building for many of their
events throughout the year, and we welcome and encourage this. With the average age of our members
being in their mid 60’s the PCC recently decided on an initiative for growth, and with this in mind the
decision was taken to outreach the school, with 6 special school services a year. These are held in
October, December, February, March and two services in May with the aim of attracting the Mums,
Dads and families to come to the services and see their children take part in Christian worship which
follows a specific theme dependent on the time of year. This is a form of outreach to our local
community which is primarily focussed on Treleigh School due to our geographical location and the
absence of any urban development close to the church
The school choir plays a major part of our nine lessons and carol service at Christmas which is a full
church event and is looked forward to very much by all who attend, always followed by Christmas fare
and refreshments in our church hall. St. Stephen has always been a favourite venue for weddings and
baptisms when our children’s area is always well used!
Regular services
Sunday: 11.00am Parish Eucharist (Sung)
Thursday: 9.15 am. Morning Prayer and Mass.
1st Friday of each month: 7.00pm healing Mass.
All advertised in the parish magazine.
Easter Services:
Ash Wednesday
Wednesday in Holy Week: Stations of the Cross.
Maundy Thursday: Sung mass with feet washing and watch.
Good Friday: Open air Stations of the Cross (In churchyard)
With the Liturgy of the Passion in the afternoon.
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Sunday: Easter Day Eucharist (Sung)
Christmas Services
Christmas Eve
Crib service at 3.00pm.
Midnight Mass at 11.30pm.
Christmas Morning Said Mass 10.30am
St. Stephen’s Day
Sung Mass 10.30am
All the above are advertised in the Five Alive Parish Magazine
Treleigh is at present showing encouraging signs of modest growth with five new members being
prepared for confirmation. We welcome everyone to our services and in a most friendly way and we
are noted for this, we have a wonderful caring community who make visits to the housebound and to
those in nursing homes and hospitals, this is carried out by almost all members of the church and
without any pressure, A team of ladies regularly keep the church decorated with flowers. Others
annual activities include a popular Summer Fete which is looked forward to by those living locally and
at the year’s end our Christmas Coffee Morning is equally well attended. Treleigh support such
charities as St. Petroc’s, RBL poppy appeal and several others from all their fund raising events.
Church Hall
The hall is used extensively by many organisations such as Redruth Camera Club, Martial Art Club,
Treleigh Floral Art Society and a Dog Training Club; it is made available also for many other social
events.
Buildings
Both the church building and the hall are in good repair and have disabled access.
A recently formed Church Ladies Group meets monthly for outings and to listen to invited speakers.
We also meet together and enjoy social events such as our annual Christmas dinner, Harvest Supper,
Slide shows etc which give a true sense of belonging.
2016 is the year in which we celebrate 150 years of St. Stephen’s Church. We would welcome a
person who will open our minds to new ideas and draw us ever closer to God, whilst retaining as far as
possible our traditional style of worship.
Regular church hall users are: Martial Art Club, Dog Training Club, Floral Art
Group, Camera Club and it is a popular venue for Birthday parties .
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St Euny Redruth
St Stephens Treleigh
St Andrews Redruth
Christchurch Lanner
St Andrews Pencoys
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Appendices:
Electoral Role Numbers (from the Office computer)
Christchurch Lanner 30
St Andrew Pencoys 36
St Andrew Redruth 56
St Stephen Treleigh 43
St Euny 41
Schools and Other organisations in the Local Community.
Please refer to the links on the parish website.
www.redruthchurch.org.uk
Parish Finances:
Please refer to the attached PDF file.
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