Seaford Parish Church
How can I help?
This church is a fabulous family of helpers and volunteers. Here’s some of the ways in which you can play your part in helping the Church to show God’s love to the Community. Let me know what I left out. Let one of the Clergy know how you’d like to help and we will point you to whoever looks after that rota / group. Training and support is given along the way. For some of them you will need safeguarding training and a DBS and we will guide you through that.
Sundays
Welcomers – each week there’s a little team of people who help with this. We have new people who come to St Luke’s and St Leonard’s each Sunday. Some are just visiting, others checking us out, if we can give them a warm welcome it will help them to worship, grow their faith, and maybe stay longer with us.
Coffee – there’s a rota for this for both St Luke’s and St Leonard’s
Choir – they practice on Thursdays, they’re an encouraging bunch who help lift the rest of us in our worship. (Let us know if you have other musical skills – play the guitar/keyboard/ etc we have a music group at St Lukes )
Tech – projecting the words, sound, and being on YouTube are all helpful ways helping people draw close to God. Some of this is as simple as pressing the next button on a keyboard.
Readers – each Sunday two people read the bible passages.
Prayers – someone leads the people in intercessory prayer. Training and support is given for this.
Chalice: each week, each church needs two or three people to help distribute the blessed sacrament. Training is given.
Glow – our Sunday School, currently at St Lukes. Ask Stefan or Kim how you can help.
Fuelled : Sunday evening, youth group, currently doing Alpha. Food! They need a supper. Ask Stefan or Kim how you can help.
Bells – Tuesday is practice night. Sunday it’s a call to worship.
Sunday Prayer Ministry: in both St Luke’s and St Leonard’s at each service there is an opportunity for anyone to receive a moment of special prayer from other trained prayers.
Prayer
Without prayer, all that you read here is just dust, so please pray for God to bless the Church in Seaford in multitudinous ways. Here’s a list of how you can pray in a more informed way. There are lots of ways in which you can be praying for the work of the Church and your fellow brothers and sisters in their faith and life.
Saturday Zoom 8.30am – 9am. Just for thirty minutes we pray for the needs of the parish and the world. The link for this is on the News Sheet.
Wednesday Zoom: we pray for particular people in our community as part of our pastoral care. Ask James the Vicar about this one.
Prayer at 7: on the 2nd Sunday of the month we meet to pray for an hour, for the needs of the Church and the World. Venue advertised in the News Sheet.
Facebook: the church facebook page has a small community of who pray at 6pm each day, or later as suits.
Magazine: has four pages with prayers for each day.
Midweek:
Church Sitters: St Leonard’s is open to the public 10-1 each day (except Thursdays). Its important we keep this going. We need two people for each morning.
Flowers: in both St Luke’s and St Lens this a lovely way to encourage people.
Home Groups: Church folk gather to learn about faith and help them to pray it through and grow as followers of Jesus, supporting each other. Different groups meet on different days at different times and do different things! Ask about it.
Care Homes: we have quite a few in town. We visit them once a month, perhaps with Communion. It’s a moment when we can show people that they still matter even if they can’t make it to church.
Visiting with Holy Communion: we need people who like visiting others from the congregation who would like someone from the Church to go and pray with them and take them Holy Communion. Training is given.
Tots Group: Wednesdays in St Luke’s, Thursdays in St Leonard’s, 9.30-11, these sessions welcome in all sorts of carers, babies and pre-school children. We need people who will set up or make coffee or welcome or just natter to those who come.
Sparks: Fridays 5.45-7.15pm in St Luke’s. This is our Primary School after school club. Kim and Stefan run this, so we just need you to be there to help with drinks and being a spare pair of eyes.
Ignite: Fridays 7.45-9.30pm in St Luke’s. This is our Secondary School after school club. Kim and Stefan run this, so we just need you to be there to help with drinks and being a spare pair of eyes.
Messy Church: first Saturday of the Month in St Lens. Run by Stefan and Kim, we need people who will welcome, make coffee, help with craft.
Open Church Café: 4th Saturday of the month we open the church in St Lens, as we do every day, but on this occasion with lots of coffee and care. We need to just come and natter to others.
Summer Parish Camp: in August, we need help setting up gazebos, and cooks, washer-uppers, and packing it all away.
Christmas: at the St Luke’s fete we need servers and chatterers!
Money
So much of what you’ve already read is amazing and it needs quite a lot of money to keep it all going. Salaries, craft and bits, heating, it all adds up. Many of you already give in a regularly committed way. Thank you.
The keyway to be financially giving is through the Parish Giving Scheme PGS. There’s a leaflet at the back that explains this. There’s even a simple box to tick so that each year your giving can, if you wish, increase in line with the inflation rate.
You can also give to particular projects. You may have noticed St Luke’s is being repainted, St Leonard’s is having an extensive reordering done. You can give to these or just generally to the Church using the glass bowl in St Leonard’s or the contactless payment machines or online(see our website).
Easy Fundraising is a simple way for those of you who do online shopping to have some small amount of your payment go towards your Church. This all adds up over the year.
Many people leave a legacy in their will. There’s a leaflet about this. It’s a really kind way of making a big difference.
Committees:
PCC: each year we need another three or four people to join our PCC and bring their wisdom to how we run the Church.
Fabric: this working group keeps on top of the need for repairs in our church buildings. There’s paperwork and phone calls involved!
Fundraising: this group write letters to different grant making charities.
Let one of the Clergy know how you’d like to help and we will point you to whoever looks after that group. vicar@seafordparish.org.uk
This isn’t a complete list of what we do. But I hope it gives you a sense of our many varied needs for help in time, money and prayer. May the Lord bless you as you bless us. March 2026