Following their meeting earlier this week, our Vicar Simon Gates has written a letter to Lib Peck, leader of Lambeth council, reasserting our position on the hall site. Click here to read the letter.

In August 2013, a group of adults and young people from STwSS will be going to China to work in an orphanage with International China Concern.  "ICC" is a Christian development organisation that changes lives by bringing love, hope and opportunity to China's abandoned and disabled children. Read more about the STwSS team and their fundraising events below.

So far, the team have raised funds by babysitting, cake sales, a 24-hour football match, hosting a Chinese meal, amongst others. More fundraising events are planned for later in the year, including a garden fair on Saturday, 20 April.

Please show your support by making a donation.  You can donate by:

• Cheque- made payable to St Thomas with St Stephens Church, dropped into the collection plate/box or to the Parish office
• BACS payment, standing order or the envelope scheme- please contact the Parish office for further details
• Online shopping- you can donate while shopping online via easyfundraising*
• Online giving- you can donate online by credit or debit card via give.net

*With EasyFundraising, you can only donate to one cause for each purchase you make. If you are already signed up to that website, you can (if you wish) switch to giving to us by changing your cause to "St Thomas with St Stephen" in the settings page, www.easyfundraising.org.uk/account/settings/. We are the first "St Thomas with St Stephen" that comes up in the list, and you can verify it is us by the logo.

If you have any questions about donating, please contact our Treasurer, Simon Hemsley, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Below is our Vicar, Simon Gates' view on the synod vote earlier this week.

We launched our five-year Vision for the church, 2012-2017, at the Harvest Festival Service on 30 September. The has been developed through a series of meetings of the PCC and also the wider congregation, including the church family vision morning back in February. The Vision document is available to read now : Vision 2012 - 2017.

This Summer we are reading Church Actually by Gerard Kelly. This is a book in short easy to read sections (suggested one a day) that looks at God’s brilliant idea, the church, and reflects on some of the pictures the Bible uses.

As we explore the vision God is calling us to be over the next 5 years, this book will by stages excite and challenge us, in the glory of what it means not to go to church but to be church – as Simon often says – the hope of the world.

If you buy it from Amazon via this link: Church Actually, the church receives a small percentage of the cost price.