St. Stephen on the Downs
Latest news and events
The church has new UPVC double glazed front doors. Thanks to Fred Etheridge, who donated them in memory of his late mother.During 2005 we raised £3598 towards the refurbishment of our church. We are renewing the lighting, laying a new carpet and completely redecorating. We are planing to replace the windows, dicussions with St Martins are still taking place, as they will be paying for these.
Monthly Calendar
- 9.30am every Sunday is Holy Communion
- On the 3rd Sunday of each month our service is Family Communion
- On the 1st & 3rd Wednesday morning we meet at 11.30am for a said service of Holy Communion
Future Events
24th December
On Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December there will a Christingle Service for the children at 3.00pm.
Followed later that day with the Midnight Eucharist Service starting at 11.00pm. lead by the Reverend Dan Shackell at St Stephen-On-The-Downs.31st December
On Sunday 31st December there will be a Patronal Festival joint service with St Martin’s for all starting at 9.30am. at St Stephen’s Everyone is welcome so please join us for one or both of these.Happy Club
Happy Club for the children runs every Sunday morning, during term time, from 9.30am-10.30am in the village hall.Happy Club is a Sunday School where we meet at the village hall and has just celebrated it's 10th year. We accept children from the age of 3yrs to 7yrs with an older group from 8yrs upwards. The children and parents of the older group view this class as a natural progression towards communion preparation.
All the children do many things from making cards to cooking, plus they cover all the major festivals of the church timetable and teachings, where they then join the congregation in the church for the last five minutes, to share the output of their session and to join in the last hymn, which the children choose themselves. We have lots of fun and laughter and would welcome any child who wishes to join us. Just come along and see us on any Sunday at 9.30am.About St. Stephen on the Downs
There has been a centre of worship in the village since Whit Sunday 1907. It
proved so popular that
worship moved from a rented room to a tin hut, which was placed on the site
where the present Village Hall is today.
In 1919 a bell for the mission room was sought, 1923 it was decided that the mission church should be known as St Stephen's Epsom Downs. The present church building of today called St. Stephen on the Downs, daughter church of St. Martin of Tours, Epsom, was completed and consecrated on 17th December 1961 by the Right Reverand George Reindorp, Bishop of Guildford.
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