Church of England

St Nicolas was a bishop  in the fourth century. He cared for people and taught them about Jesus.

St Nicolas' church today is a place to meet Jesus:

Our Mission Values

responding to the love of God for the whole world by connecting with:

ü each other and our fellow Christians

ü society

ü the environment

 ü and the local community

Click here to see our 2012/13 Mission Action Plan

We are members of a cluster group with Holy Trinity & St Mary's and St Saviour's.

We and All Saints' are committed partners with the United Reformed Church.

We met on Monday 18^th February for the last meeting before the Annual Church Meeting – which will be after the 10am Parish Mass on Sunday 17^th March. 

 Among the matters we discussed: 

• we looked forward to receiving more insights from our local Community Audit, which we hope to have soon;

• final preparations for welcoming Upper Room Ministries to use our church for worship on Sunday afternoons when they have to move from the Methodist Church in Woodbridge Road which is closing down in the summer; 

• in regard to the recent changes to our women’s ministry policy I reported that Bishop Christopher’s interpretation of the legislation was that resolution C presupposes resolutions A & B – so in rescinding the latter the former no longer applies even though we did not have a two-thirds majority against it – Bishop Christopher is now approaching Bishop Norman to explore our continuing in a relationship with Bishop Norman, not as a PEV but as an assistant bishop in the diocese, and in a new and appropriate way which would be positive and helpful for us all as an inclusive church community committed to reconciliation; 

• Fr Barnaby guided us through an excellent presentation of a new order for baptisms at the Parish Mass – everyone was very pleased with how this would be more inclusive for the baptism families and would involve them in the “whole” service;

• Catherine Ferguson made some suggestions about how we might want to use the Loseley chapel area, and we shall be considering this further at the next meeting (so any thoughts from the congregation would be welcome!);

·         we received the parish accounts, presented by Patrick Andrew as our PCC Treasurer, before being sent for formal examination ready for the APCM - Patrick was thanked for his continued support in this role and for all his hard work on our behalf;

•  various policies were renewed: Safeguarding (with ‘DBS’ now replacing ‘Child Protection’) – our Ecological Commitment (to which we added: “we now begin the process of being recognized as an eco-congregation” ) – Organ (committing us to maintain and care properly for our historic instrument);

• I shared with the PCC my annual review of weekday worship – with my proposal to concentrate on one Daily Liturgy in church being accepted, together with either Morning or Evening Prayer being said privately and extended as a reading & study period – we then went on to consider  any ways  in which the daily prayer in church might connect with our own prayer, one suggestion being to make use of the Church of England ‘daily prayer feed’ on-line;

• Mark Boland was appointed as a Foundation Governor at St Nicholas School;

• John Milan was approved to be trained as an Occasional Preacher at St Nicolas  (as John usually attends the 8.30am Sunday Mass he will be invited to the APCM to be introduced to everyone);

• Ray and Vicky Lamb were approved for training as Communion Assistants;

• lastly, we agreed to buy a reduced price voice recorder so that sermons etc can be heard on our website.

Diocese of Guildford: http://www.cofeguildford.org.uk