Welcome to the Church of the Good Shepherd

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    A very warm welcome to the website of The Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach. We hope you will find our site easy to use and that it will encourage you to come and visit us soon. 
     
    You will find information here about how to arrange a  baptism, wedding or funeral at our church. You can read a copy of the monthly letter from the Vicarage, and  you can view the leaflet outlining our services and activities. From the following links you can see a list of Sunday Services for the weeks ahead, our Weekly News Sheet handed out on a Sunday morning and a reduced version of the monthly Magazine 'Shore Line'. We hope these will let you know what's going on right now, so you can join us if you'd like to. 
     
    Almost every day of the year the church building is open -, usually from around 8.30/9am until 5.30/6pm - for quiet prayer, to read the Bible or simply to sit and be still. If you come between these hours and find the door is closed with no explanation, please do try the Vicarage next door. Our church is in a unique position - we sit right at the shoreline and wonder if ours is the closest active church to the sea in this country. We are a worshipping, healing church on Shoreham Beach, with a mission … to welcome you!
      
    With best wishes from                                                      Reverend Gail Souppouris, Priest-in-Charge

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    We pride ourselves on the welcome we give - to long-standing family members and newcomers alike. The church is accessible to wheelchair users and there are two rows of single chairs towards the front which we can easily remove one or two from in order to fit a wheelchair in comfortably. Both our Service Booklet and our Hymn Books come in large print versions and we have a "loop" system for the hard of hearing.

    If there is anything further we can do to make our worship fully accessibly to you, please do let our Welcomers know as you arrive. The Church Hall has two wheelchair accessible toilets, though one is better equipped with the grab rails than the other, and there is a portable ramp we can place to make the step at the front door into a reasonable slope. A recent re-paint has included a darker line at the top of the wall in the Church Hall, in line with advice for those with poor and partial sight.

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