St Peter's Bredhurst Weddings

Last updated August2009. If you find a broken link, please email me
grahamATbredhurstchurch.org.uk (put an @ in place of the AT or just click the link)

I am happy to consider links to other web sites. If you are a commercial outfit linked to weddings it does help if you’ve worked with the Curate. Grab him at the next wedding and give him your card (but not if you’re a photographer who has just spent2 hours on the photos……)

Useful Links,
(and a few others)

Links to Links

Ecclesiastical Insurance’s
page of Links

Church of England Links Page

Church Times List of
(rather a lot of) Links
– click on the Links button

A General Christian Links Site

Insurance – Ecclesiastical Insurance

Airport Cars – Can be cheaper than Car Parking, and a lot less stressful!

If you would like your business or organisation listed on this page, please mail us (replace “AT” with “@”):
grahamATbredhurstchurch.org.uk

Organising an event (including receptions, parties, etc)? Read these guidelines to ensure everyone can fully participate.

Church and Faith Links

Learn about the Christian Faith

Re Jesus – all about Jesus – including Pub Quiz answers!

Strictly for the youth reader – I don’t understand this at all

The official Alpha Page, finding out about Christianity

Bishop Ryle was the first Bishop of Liverpool. Read some of his writings.

Other Churches and Church Organisations

Find a Church

A Church Near You – mainly Church of England

List of Church of England Church Websites

Church of England – Use the Site Map page for the best access

The Archbishop’s Home Page (!)

Explore Anglican Cathedrals

Rochester Diocese

South Gillingham Parish

St Matthew’s Church, Wigmore

St Margaret’s Church Rainham

St Luke’s Church Gillingham – for something completely different!

And at the other end of the spectrum, The-River meets at Fairview School (next to St Matthew’s) at 3.30pm every Sunday afternoon. Everything they do is designed to be welcoming and inviting to people who, for whatever reason, would not normally go to church. So if that’s you, why not pop along and see.

St Mary’s Darenth, really beautiful little church, similar to St Peter’s but different inside. It’s at the junction of the M25 and A2 if you want to have a look.

Mother’s Union – Campaigns, Prayer, Help, everything you didn’t expect.

Clear Lake Presbyterian Church – An inspiring story of a flourishing Christian community. Makes our chapel project look a little tame.

Taize – A different experience

Christian Aid’s Fish site – A collection of Development and related issues

Anglicans Online – Unofficial but excellent site with links to churches all over the world

Faithlinks – an American Episcopalian (= Anglican) site with some excellent articles

Christian Resource Institute – a superb collection from the Methodist tradition.

Theological resources (a fundamentalist American evangelical site)

And some more from an academic source

And yet more, with all the Christian Classics on-line

Theological discussion

Liberation Theology

Off the scale theology (like, it helps not to believe in God to cope with this one)

Marriage & Weddings

Planning a church wedding ceremony? Wedding Check List & Texts (Readings, Orders of Service, etc) is the document that we sometimes use when organising the service. It may help you decide what type of service you want and what to put in your service sheet.

Service Sheet Modern Style

Service Sheet Style 1

Service Sheet Style 2

Service Sheet Style 3

A sample of a real service

Hymns

The few hymns in this file are all out of copyright so you can happily include them in your service sheets. If you want to use modern songs you will need to ask us for the copyright information you must include. See the general wedding links below for music and more words. Look at the links below for other hymns or talk to the curate who has many of the hymns in our hymnbooks on disk.

Wedding Hymn Texts

General Wedding Links

The definitive guide to church weddings: www.yourchurchwedding.org

Church if England Marriage Services Page

Guidance on who can get married in a CofE church

St Peter’s Wedding Fayre

Kent Messenger Wedding Page

Weddings.co.uk general marriage information site

Wedding Planning? Wedding Chaos provides comprehensive information for planning your wedding. Loads of good links

Weddings Guide: useful site: section on hymns, the texts, the music and where to put them

Future Weddings: A comprehensive set of links and some good advice on the details, albeit written in the US

Advice on wedding music and musicians

Diocese of Lichfield’s weddings page – a useful resource with links to other subjects as well

Insurance for your wedding from Ecclesiastical Insurance

2-in-2-1: Not only about the wedding but beyond

Children’s work &
Schools Resources

The Church Pastoral Aid Society – Resources for Churches and Children’s Work

Scripture Union – More Resources for Churches and Schools

We are currently compiling a schools visit work-pack. If you’d like details please contact us.

Help

Victory Outreach provide a home to young people in need, especially those coming out of prison or recovering form alcohol or drug dependencies.

The BBC website has a section dedicated to domestic violence

Women’s Aid Domestic Violence Helpline, http://www.womensaid.org.uk/,
Phone 0808 2000 247
This organization can find you a Refuge (as can Samaritans, CAB, Social Services and the Police).

Samaritans (includes an on-line counselling service)

Marriage and Relationships site

Home Start Medway – friendly, voluntary help for families with preschool children. This link is to the National Group who can give you a contact for your local scheme.

Worried about Internet Fraud? http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/ will tell you all you need to know.

Service Resources

Possibly the most complete set of hymn texts

Bible Gateway –
Bible passages on line

Church of England, texts of services

We can help you with producing your service sheets for weddings, funerals and christenings or we can do them for you or you can use our standard sheets so don’t worry about this (or anything else).

If you are looking here for resources for Lessons and Carols, Good Friday, Easter Dawn, Family Friendly Services, etc., then please mail Graham the Curate – if enough of you respond I will post the material so you can download it without going through me. There’s no charge for this and I’d love to hear from you.

Home Groups
Bible Study Notes

You are welcome to use any of these. Please don’t sell them if you do copy anything from here.

Emerging Church – This is a full set of notes in RTF format (works on most Word Processors but you may have to play with the fonts etc to restore the original pagination)

The pages are designed to be printed back-to-back so page 2 prints on the back of page 1, etc. When it’s all folded into A5 the text will follow. If it does not open properly then mail the curate and ask for a copy to be sent to you.

A romp through the Old Testament

Whatever Next – an introduction to the Christian faith looking at the communion service

Elisha

Amos

Worship – print the actual study sheets on two sides and then slice to get two, double-sided sheets. These are in .RTF format.

Funerals

A simple service from the old prayer book

An outline service for the funeral of a child

The official CofE Service Order

Allowable Memorials – Some Examples

Memorials Rules

Not Allowed in the Churchyard

Memorial Gifts (shrubs, etc.)

General Funerals and Memorials Links

Funeral Directors - Look under Rainham, Gillingham and Chatham.

These are the funeral directors we most often work with. We have found them all to be excellent:

John Weir,
Buttons,
Co-Op Funeral Care,
Apps/Fowle,
T Allen,

Monumental Masons BUT please note that many of the national firms do not supply any memorials that would be allowed in our churchyard. Our local firms understand our rules and will guide you appropriately. If you want to go elsewhere please read our guides above first.

Medway Memorials