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St Peter in the Forest, E17.
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A friendly, community minded, inclusive church set within a forest glade in Walthamstow. All welcome, all the time.
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If you feel your soul might benefit from an hour of peace and stillness, candles and incense, some chanting, meditation and breathwork, and anointing with oil for healing and wholeness, Threshold may be for you.
July 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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It's St Peter's day, the saint our church is named after, and our patronal festival! Come along this Sunday to explore St Peter's qualities and the ways we try to embody these as a church, while we make Rocky Road for Peter the Rock 🪨
June 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Congratulations to our lovely churchwardens re-elected this year, and charged and blessed for the year ahead at a service this evening. ✝️
June 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Happy Pentecost! 🔥🕊️🌬️

This morning in Forest Rocks we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit as wind and fire by making and flying kites, and by eating (a lot of!) toasted marshmallows 👌

Also congratulations to Joshua who got baptised 🕯️
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Beautiful afternoon at Forest Church celebrating St Mary, who had the courage to be Jesus's mum.
May 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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It's Forest Church on Sunday, and we're going to make rosary beads from real roses! 🌹🩵💙

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May Forest Church 3pm 18th May. Mary is shown surrounded by silhouettes of flowers on a blue background.
May 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Exploring the story of Noah outside in Forest Rocks this morning 🌈
Bark boat in a tuffspot flood Man holds paper dove on a string Caterpillars made of saltdough
May 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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We have two Easter gardens in church. One to look at, for people to use for reflection, and one made by the children on Good Friday that is already being well loved and played with by the littles at church 🤗 ✝️⚓
April 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Happy Easter from Forest Church, where we made garlic butter from the three cornered leek in the churchyard 🌱, and spread it on toasted crumpets, and wet felted eggs as a sign of new life 🐣

Such a special worship community. 3pm last Sunday of every month. Join us!
Campfire toasted muffins spread with fresh garlic (three cornered leek) butter. So so goooood. Five wet felted eggs on a log.
April 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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So special to remember the death and resurrection of Jesus around our firepit this Good Friday.

Please do join us to celebrate Easter on Sunday:

🌸 6am round the firepit for storytelling and moving into church for vigil service, followed by breakfast 🍳
April 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Churchyard is looking beautiful.
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Easter Forest Church, round the fire pit, Easter Sunday 3pm.
April 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Good Friday activities round the firepit 11-12noon.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Where the younger members of church stayed outside to saw 🪚 and drill candle stands for mini 'holy week tenebrae'. You light all the candles today, blow one more out each day you light them until it's in darkness on Good Friday, then light them all at Easter.
Chunk of wood with five candles in it
April 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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In fact we had a veritable stable full of real* donkeys!

We made these brilliant hobbydonkeys before the Palm Sunday procession, and rode on them round the streets to church 🐴
Priest in red chasuble stands in front of red-fronted altar in a church. There are a lot of homemade hobbydonkeys propped up against it!
April 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Wonderful to have a real* donkey for Palm Sunday today!
Homemade hobbydonkey and palm cross processing past a church.
April 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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We are really looking forward to offering confirmation classes for anyone aged 11 or above, who is interested in exploring this step in their faith.

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April 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Join us at the earlier time of 9.30am outside Peterhouse to make hobbydonkeys (yes, that's hobbyhorses but the donkey version!) and listen to the story of Palm Sunday, before joining the procession to the church where we'll have more Forest Rocks activities round the firepit. Sunday 13th April. ✝️⚓
Palm Sunday Forest Rocks Join us at the earlier time of 9.30am, outside Peterhouse, where we will make hobbydonkeys and hear the story of Palm Sunday before we head to the firepit for more fun.
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Reflecting on weaving baskets, the basket Moses' mother wove for him, the way Jesus wove his mother and his friend into a new family from the cross, the way God weaves all of us into a family of love and care within his church...
Hands weaving a raffia basket A chain of paper dolls Paper heart baskets Hands cutting paper dolls
March 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Have you ever wondered about sewing a deacon's or priest's stole? Do you fancy a day retreat doing just that?
Stole making day retreat advert
March 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Did you know that Fr Alex and Mthr Rachel both have ADHD?

At St Peter in the Forest, we rejoice in the way God has created all of us, in all our wonderful variety of neurotypes.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139.
March 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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A fabulous Forest Church to celebrate St Patrick's Day- we sang, prayed, listened to the bible, created green shamrocks ☘️, made green bracelets ('I bind unto myself today...'), and cooked potato farls over the campfire.

Next Forest Church is on Easter Sunday at 3pm- can't wait to see you there!
Child holds a fabric shamrock Child's wrist with green woven band round it. Potato farls cooking on a campfire A group of mixed age people doing Nordic slinging braids under an oak tree in a churchyard.
March 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Every week in Lent, we will share a reflection from #WildLent Why not try it out, pop back on here, let us know what you made of it, and join the conversation?

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RACHEL SUMMERS WILD LENT DISCOVERING GOD THROUGH CREATION #WildLent Have you decided what you are giving up or taking on for Lent this year? For Christians, the five weeks before Easter are a time to fast- from food, from unkind thoughts, from acting selfishly- and a time to pray. Lots of Christians decide to take on a spiritual practice over Lent, a spring clean of their souls, if you like. You are invited to take part in #WildLent. In this booklet, there are ideas for each week of Lent. These will be shared on @StPeterE17 on facebook, @st_peter_in_the_forest on Instagram, and @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social and you are very much invited to try them out and be part of the conversation! Week 1: Putting Down Do you feel grateful for trees? Through photosynthesis, they turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen. Their leaves and branches shade us from the sun and from rainy downpours. Some produce fruit or nuts for us to eat, or seeds that are fun to play with. They house and shelter hundreds or thousands of creatures. Their roots help to keep the soil together. Many of the trees around you may well be older than you are. Imagine them curled up inside their seed, waiting to grow, putting down tiny roots. Imagine them surviving the threat of being trodden on or eaten, and patiently growing, year on year. Recent studies seem to show that trees are connected under the soil by fungus mycelium, which enables them to pass on information about threats, and to pass on carbon from a taller, older tree, to a younger smaller one struggling for light underneath the canopy. It is likely these trees will still be growing here after you have died. For a while, you both inhabit the same place and the same time. Yet you have such a different experience of the world. The tree experiences a world of height and of constant movement while staying fixed in one place. The world changes around it. Visitors come to it. Our vision is set lower, while we travel from place to place, changing the world as much as being changed by it. It doesn't hurt us to sometimes spend a few moments being like a tree- still, and with the world just happening around us. Find a tree and spend some time with it. Touch its bark. Stretch your arms around it. Sit with your back against it. Climb it if it's big enough and you have good enough balance! It is what trees put down that holds them steady. Their root system is as large and complex as the branches overhead. The tree that we can see is only half the organism. We tend to forget about its roots unless they are poking out of the ground and tripping us up, or if we have to grub out a sapling from the garden. I'm writing this at the edge of Epping Forest, looking out onto acres of trees as far as I can see, and yet below the ground that's matched by the immensity of their root systems. As well as letting go of things this Lent, what is it you do now that keeps you grounded, keeps you steady, and feeds you? Lord, let my roots sink deep into you, drawing up your life giving water, and holding me firm in your love. Amen.
March 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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It's Forest Rocks this week! Join us round the firepit as part of the 10am Eucharist this Sunday as we play and explore the bible together, and share campfire snacks. This week we'll be making beeswax lip balm, and sawing wood cookie necklaces.
Pink background with hearts and lips. Reads, 'The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart.'
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Campfire songs and pancakes on Tuesday at 5pm. 🥞
Ash Weds firepit service on Weds at 5pm. ✝️
#walthamstow
March 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM