St Michael’s Church makes a stunning wedding venue; it has for centuries. The church office will gladly discuss all the options for your big day. Do get in touch to talk it through. We also host occasional larger wedding services and receptions in the auditorium of the St Michael’s Church Centre. Our admin team will be glad to discuss all these options with you.
You can also visit this dedicated Church of England Church of England website for more information on having a Church wedding. And if you are looking to have your Banns of Marriage called please contact the church office or complete the online Application Form here.
Baptisms/Thanksgivings
Dozens of people are baptised (or “Christened”) at St Michael’s every year, either as infants or when they are old enough to choose to be baptised for themselves. Some people book the church for their own family baptism service; others choose to be baptised during one of our regular weekly services.
We also offer an alternative called a service of Thanksgiving (sometimes called a Dedication)
We can generally offer both these types of service at 12.30 on Sunday in St Michael’s Church, or during one of our services or celebrations.
For more information about Baptisms within the Church of England, take a look at this website.
If you would like to talk about baptism or thanksgiving for your child or baptism for yourself, please contact us to discuss any of these possibilities.
Please fill in one of the online forms below and we will be in touch.
BAPTISM APPLICATION FORM
THANKSGIVING/DEDICATION FORM
If you are an adult who has never been Baptised, please complete the form here
St Michael’s Church is inviting everyone to play a part in the Heart of the Community project with our new Buy a Brick appeal.
The idea is that church members encourage everyone to buy a brick or two for the new church and community centre. Each brick represents a £10 gift, with a small certificate presented to everyone who donates.
Our target is to raise £50,000 for the project – which means selling 5,000 bricks.
We are currently recruiting volunteers to take a turn helping to run one of our three Buy a Brick display stands at local events and meeting places over the next few weeks. You could sell bricks at your own Christmas event too. Please contact Sue Woodhead if you’d like to help. (Hard hats will be provided.)
The Laing Trusts are named after Sir John Laing, a devout Christian who was instrumental in creating the global Laing Construction Group. He set up his first charitable trust in 1922, and the Beatrice Laing Trust, named after his wife, followed in 1952. Its focus is on the relief of poverty and the advancement of the Christian faith, both at home and abroad.
After visiting the site they chose to donate £20,000 towards the cost building our new church and community centre next door to the Old School Rooms in Stoke Gifford.
Trust director, Elizabeth Harley, said “I hope this will be of some encouragement to you and the church membership as a whole as the building work and your fundraising efforts continue”.
We are extremely grateful for their support of our vision to make a difference in this community and beyond.
We marked the start of building work on the new church and community centre this week by inviting local media to a celebratory photo opportunity in the sunshine.
On Tuesday morning a gang of junior builders from St Michael’s Pre-school and Nursery put on their hard hats and high-vis jackets to watch the action at the site, and pose for the cameras.
The professionals from Bray and Slaughter – our appointed building contractors – were extremely hospitable, and choreographed a splendid photo-call complete with diggers and rubble. The story was covered by BBC Bristol, the Bristol Post and others. We were on the front page of the Bristol Observer and more detailed coverage is planned for the forthcoming edition of Little Stoke Matters too.
Once the photographers had finished snapping and the little ones were safely back at Pre-school and Nursery, work continued apace on the site, in preparation for the first stages of construction in the months ahead. What a scoop.
