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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jul 8

Wednesday evenings, 7-8pm. 23rd July, 27th August, 24th September.

No need to book, donations by QR code in the church.

#E17 #Walthamstow #WalthamForest #meditation #spirituality #spiritualnotreligious

St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's an hour of reflection in the Christian tradition, led by Mthr Rachel inside our beautiful forest church. Please bring a yoga mat or something to lie on; and a heart and soul that's open to the Divine.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you feel your soul might benefit from an hour of peace and stillness, candles and incense, some chanting, meditation and breathwork, and anointing with oil for healing and wholeness, Threshold may be for you.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jun 25

We'd also love you to join us for our parish lunch at 12.30 after the service- £6.50/adults, £3/12-16s, free for kids. Send us a message so we can put you on the list and buy enough food! 🧀 🍞 🥗 🍓 🍦

St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's St Peter's day, the saint our church is named after, and our patronal festival! Come along this Sunday to explore St Peter's qualities and the ways we try to embody these as a church, while we make Rocky Road for Peter the Rock 🪨

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congratulations to our lovely churchwardens re-elected this year, and charged and blessed for the year ahead at a service this evening. ✝️

St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Jun 8

Happy Pentecost! 🔥🕊️🌬️

This morning in Forest Rocks we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit as wind and fire by making and flying kites, and by eating (a lot of!) toasted marshmallows 👌

Also congratulations to Joshua who got baptised 🕯️

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · May 18

We made elder bead rosaries, found Mary/Our Lady themed flowers, and made rosary beads from rose petals (you whizz them into a smoothie, heat over the fire, squash out all the water, then roll the dough into balls to dry!). And we cooked elderflower fritters over the fire. ✝️⚓

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · May 18

Beautiful afternoon at Forest Church celebrating St Mary, who had the courage to be Jesus's mum.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · May 13

It's Forest Church on Sunday, and we're going to make rosary beads from real roses! 🌹🩵💙

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May Forest Church 3pm 18th May.

Mary is shown surrounded by silhouettes of flowers on a blue background.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · May 11

Exploring the story of Noah outside in Forest Rocks this morning 🌈

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 20

When we say All Welcome, All The Time, we do honestly mean it. We love the family of St Peter's to properly sound like a family, worshipping and doing life together, and need tiny voices to be a part of that 🥰 (happy, loud, cross, squealy, sad- however they come).

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 20

We have two Easter gardens in church. One to look at, for people to use for reflection, and one made by the children on Good Friday that is already being well loved and played with by the littles at church 🤗 ✝️⚓

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 20

Happy Easter from Forest Church, where we made garlic butter from the three cornered leek in the churchyard 🌱, and spread it on toasted crumpets, and wet felted eggs as a sign of new life 🐣

Such a special worship community. 3pm last Sunday of every month. Join us!

Campfire toasted muffins spread with fresh garlic (three cornered leek) butter. So so goooood.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 18

🌸 10am in church for parish Eucharist, with colouring and biscuit Easter gardens to make on the table at the back.

🌸 3pm Forest Church round the firepit to sing, pray, play, and create in nature.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 18

So special to remember the death and resurrection of Jesus around our firepit this Good Friday.

Please do join us to celebrate Easter on Sunday:

🌸 6am round the firepit for storytelling and moving into church for vigil service, followed by breakfast 🍳

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 17

Churchyard is looking beautiful.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 15

Easter Forest Church, round the fire pit, Easter Sunday 3pm.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 15

Good Friday activities round the firepit 11-12noon.
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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 13

Then we roasted dates (from date palms) over the campfire 🔥 We do love a thematic snack 😋

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 13

Where the younger members of church stayed outside to saw 🪚 and drill candle stands for mini 'holy week tenebrae'. You light all the candles today, blow one more out each day you light them until it's in darkness on Good Friday, then light them all at Easter.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 13

In fact we had a veritable stable full of real* donkeys!

We made these brilliant hobbydonkeys before the Palm Sunday procession, and rode on them round the streets to church 🐴

Priest in red chasuble stands in front of red-fronted altar in a church. There are a lot of homemade hobbydonkeys propped up against it!

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 13

Wonderful to have a real* donkey for Palm Sunday today!

Homemade hobbydonkey and palm cross processing past a church.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 10

We are really looking forward to offering confirmation classes for anyone aged 11 or above, who is interested in exploring this step in their faith.

www.churchofengland.org/life-events/...

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join us at the earlier time of 9.30am outside Peterhouse to make hobbydonkeys (yes, that's hobbyhorses but the donkey version!) and listen to the story of Palm Sunday, before joining the procession to the church where we'll have more Forest Rocks activities round the firepit. Sunday 13th April. ✝️⚓

Palm Sunday
Forest Rocks
Join us at the earlier time of 9.30am,
outside Peterhouse, where we will make
hobbydonkeys and hear the story of Palm Sunday
before we head to the
firepit for more fun.

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