It's my pleasure to introduce you to the parish of Crofton in Stubbington and our two churches - St Edmund’s and Holy Rood. We are an evangelical Anglican church within the Portsmouth diocese. On this website you will find details of the values and vision of our church, along with details of many of our activities. Throughout the week, the church provides a range of opportunities for people of all ages to meet together for friendship, worship and teaching. I hope you will find the information on this website helpful, but please feel free to e-mail us or ring the church office if you would like to find out more details about any of our activities, or indeed if you have any questions regarding any aspects of the Christian faith.
May God guide you and inspire you as you seek after him.
Stephen Girling (Vicar of Crofton Parish)
The Next Messy Church is on Wednesday 8th September 3.30-5.50pm.
• Thought about going to church but Sundays just seem too busy?
• Like to spend some quality time as a family while learning more about God?
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This Year's Alpha course starts at Holy Rood on Tuesday 21st September
7:15pm - 9:30pm for 10 weeks (excluding half term)
Crofton parish has been running Alpha courses for well over 10 years. We are pleased to be linked to a course that runs succesfully in thousands of churches around the world (www.alpha.org). Click here to see an introductory video on Alpha.
What is Alpha?
"The Alpha course is an opportunity for you to explore the Christian faith. Alpha suits those wanting to explore the Christian faith, those that are new Christians, or those who have been away from Church for many years" Click here for more information.
Diocesan Worship Event
7pm Fri 29th until 7pm Sat 30th Oct 2010 - Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral
Using the many styles and forms of worship from across our diocese, this rolling event aims to cover the whole church calendar in 24 hours.
Starting with the Kingdom season, moving through Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Palm Sunday, Passiontide, Easter and ending with Pentecost, every hour will be filled with a variety of prayer, praise, music, reflection and silence. You don't have to stay for the whole time - so why not come for something familiar and stay for something you've never experienced before. The programme includes Messy Church, Psalm Drumming, Advent Hymns and Carols, a Choral Passion, Contemporary Praise music, BCP Evensong, Morning Prayer and Communion.
For more detailed information visit www.portsmouth.anglican.org/24hw
Here you will find the talks that we hear at Crofton. You computer may be set up to play the talks by just clicking the play button on each talk. If not or if you want to save the MP3 to your computer or MP3 player to listen to later, you will need download the file. To do this right click the "download" link and select "save target as", now select a folder on your computer to save the file. You can find the talks by clicking here.
Alternately you can subscribe in iTunes by clicking here or by pasting the http://www.croftonparish.org.uk/radio url into your other podcast software. What is a Podcast? Find out here.
