churches together in elham
Prayer meetings are held in the Methodist Hall, open to all persons of any denomination or none.
Monthly on a Saturday morning, at 8 am, half an hour of prayer followed by breakfast at 8.30 (please let David Whitethread know if you are coming – 840650 or 07961053335).
The next Prayer Breakfast is 6th September. All welcome, come and join us.
Coffee & Cake mornings – Mondays, 1030 to 1200.
Next Prayer Meeting – 2nd October7.30pm then every first Thursday of each month
ride & stride for kent churches
Saturday 13th September
The Friends of Kent Churches gave grants totalling £169,500 from sponsorship monies to 36 churches to help with essential repairs. This year’s Ride and Stride is also the 40th anniversary of Ride and Stride.
Acrise church will be open from 10.00am until 6.00pm.
Sue, Mike and Richard will be riding or striding on the day and would be grateful for any sponsors. Their sponsor forms will be in church on 7th September.
Sponsorship will be divided equally between the Friends of Kent Churches and the church of your choice.
St JOhn's Commandery - Swingfield
Open Days in September
This building was built in the 13th-century. It was a chapel and hall of a 'Commandery' of Knights Hospitallers. The Knights Hospitaller were a military and religious order founded in the 12th century with the purpose of caring for and protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land. Their main unit of local administration was the commandery, where knights and sergeants lived together under the rule of a commander, who administered the estates with which the order had been endowed. Revenues from commanderies funded hospitals for sick pilgrims. The Hospitallers founded a religious community here in 1180, but this chapel from the 1200s is the only building that remains.
