Ministry in the Benefice

Ministry in the benefice

Wychert Vale Benefice is highly lay-enabled and has a large volunteer team preaching and leading services as well as leading many other activities. It brings the following groups to the benefice merger:

The Benefice Ministry Team meets monthly and all those ministering within the benefice who are ordained, LLMs or ordinands are invited.

The Benefice Preachers group currently meets with the ministry team to reflect on the content of the preaching series and to improve the quality of teaching in the church and of services. It liaises with the home group leaders meetings. This group provides a very strong lay basis for ministry in the benefice.

Benefice Service Planning group meets from June each year to plan the teaching for the following calendar year. The annual teaching theme gives significant direction to the churches and helps to draw the churches into a common sense of purpose.

Sunday Services:

 

Sunday

in month

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Haddenham 9am

Parish Holy Communion


10.30am

All Age Morning Worship

 9am

Parish Holy Communion


10.30am

Morning Worship

9am

Parish Holy Communion


10.30am

All Age Worship with Children’s Church

6.30pm

Praise Service, informal charismatic service with a worship band

 9am

Parish Holy Communion


10.30am

Holy Communion

 9am

Parish Holy Communion


10.30am

All Age Holy Communion


6.30pm

Benefice Evensong (rotates)

Stone 10.30am

All Age Service

10.30am

Holy Communion

 10.30am

Morning Worship

10.30am

Holy Communion

10.30am

All Age Service

Dinton 10.0 am

Holy Communion

6.30pm
Evensong
10am

Morning Worship

4.0pm

Messy Church

Cuddington

 

10am

HC (CW)

10am

All Age Worship

10am

HC (CW)

10am

Morning Worship

10am

Morning Worship

Kingsey

 

9.15am

The Kingsey Breakfast Service

9.15am

HC (BCP) with hymns

  9.15am

HC (BCP) Said

 

6.30pm

Benefice Evensong (rotates)

Aston Sandford

 

11am

HC (trad.)
(CW – Order 1)

Weekday worship

There is an Anglican service on the first and third Thursday morning in Haddenham at 10.30am, held in the Roman Catholic Church at their invitation (it is smaller, warmer and much more accessible than the Anglican church midweek). It has an attendance of about 12.

Morning prayer is held in St Mary’s, Haddenham on Tuesdays ,  in St Nicholas, Cuddington on Wednesdays and Saints Peter and Paul, Dinton Church on Friday, all at 9am.

Occasional Offices

We have a strong commitment to occasional offices and have drawn from the recent national research projects to shape our ministry to be very accessible to people beyond our congregations. We hold two marriage preparation days each year and have regular baptism preparation evenings and confirmation groups.

Benefice Governance Structure

Each of the parishes have a PCC who hold the leadership for their parishes. The benefice ministry team meets on a regular basis and there are occasional treasurers meetings.

The website for the parishes of Aston Sandford, Cuddington, Dinton and Stone, Haddenham and Kingsey