Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich
St. Matthew's Church
Welcome to the St. Matthew's Thorpe Hamlet website.
Zoom prayer meetings happen at 10.00 on Wednesday and at 11am on Sunday. You will need a link to them which you can get by emailing the vicar at revpatrickjordan@gmail.com . We have also begun a discussion group on Thursday evening at 7pm, exploring questions that we have about God, the Church and faith.
Articles and podcasts we find interesting are in study materials, thoughts and reflections can be found on the blog and art from around Thorpe Hamlet or that has been important for people in our community can be found in the Rainbow Gallery and Community Scrap book.
If you would like to talk to the Vicar, my name is Patrick Jordan and my telephone number is 01603 494015.
God bless you and be safe as we get through this difficult time together.
We are a Church that seeks to welcome everyone, sometimes that means adapting what we do in order to meet people's needs. We are happy to do that, so if you or your family have specific needs please let us know. We are an inclusive Church which means we are all welcome, whatever our gender, race or sexual orientation and with whatever needs we have. We are also a Recovery Friendly Church committed to supporting people in their mental health and well-being.
All services are currently on Zoom only.
In order to keep worshipers safe we have moved all of our services onto Zoom. We continue to open the Church for private prayer during the morning. We look forwards to the time we can worship together in our Church building, but in the meantime pray that you be safe and sustained in body, min and spirit.
Beginnings: an introduction to the Gospel writers through their first words.
Morna Hooker wrote an introduction to the Gospels by looking at their opening chapters. Perhaps this just appeals to the lazy person in me but I thought it was a wonderful way to get to grips with the different perspectives on the Gospel writers. Inspired by this we shall run a four week course from Tuesday the 12th of January at 7pm.
here is the link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82303238639?pwd=eVpDaFkzZ096elZ4Tllzcno5ZnNVQT09
here is the link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82303238639?pwd=eVpDaFkzZ096elZ4Tllzcno5ZnNVQT09
Children's Church now on Zoom
Listen to Paula telling the story of Adam and Eve as part of our Sunday Afternoon Children's Church service. If you would like to take part contact revpatrickjordan@gmail.com
Making our own Crib sets.
We met online as Children's Church and created our own Crib sets together. Well done all of our young people and their adult helpers.
Open for Private prayer
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St Matthews will be open from Monday to Thursday 9am-12 noon for private prayer. Please be aware that there will only be one door open with a hand sanitiser to use as we enter.
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News
Jill Miller's life as a local Councillor, mayor and Sheriff in the press.
Longstanding member of St Matthews, Jill Miller is profiled in the EDP, (see link below) Jill has served as Deputy Mayor, Lord Mayor and Sheriff twice, here is here story...
News from the Diocese
Keep in touch
There are lots of ways of keeping in touch with St Matthews, you can email us your prayer requests, or your offers of help. If there are things you need we will try and match you up with someone who you know, who can help. Alongside short films that are being prepared . We are worshiping together on Zoom, do please contact the Vicar revpatrickjordan@gmail.com if you would like to take part.
You can comment on our blog page, new blogs are going up each day, and you can pray with us, a prayer resources page will be on the website soon.
You can comment on our blog page, new blogs are going up each day, and you can pray with us, a prayer resources page will be on the website soon.
As of today (17th March) the Church of England has suspended all acts of public worship. That means there will be no services at St Matthews for the next few weeks. The Vicar will continue to pray each day in the Church and we are focusing our time and energy on supporting people by phone and online. For more information contact Rev Patrick Jordan the vicarage phone number is 01603 494015.
Youth Group gets arty.
St Matthews youth group has been using art to explore mental health and the Church as a safe place to talk about anything that may be concerning you and celebrating International Women's day.
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