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About Holy Apostles<\/strong><\/h1><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Holy Apostles, is a vibrant Anglican church in Cheltenham made up of people of all ages and stages of life, and faith. Informal, family friendly, and open to all. Our Sunday morning service starts at 10am, with Communion on the fourth Sunday of each month. Our services start with everybody together with a shared time of worship together, then during term-time there is the option for children and young people to go to groups for different ages and stages, or to stay in the main space for the rest of the service.<\/p>\n

We explore the Christian faith together with bible teaching, worship, and prayer. In everything we do we place a high emphasis on friendship and generosity towards each other. We run a network of small-groups that meet together during the week. We also run courses for those who are enquiring about or just getting going in the Christian faith. There is lots going on for children and young people, please see our children's and youth pages. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Our central aim is to see our community transformed with the love of God by knowing Jesus and making Jesus known<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

We try to give this shape with five key values:<\/p>\n

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  1. God led.<\/strong>
    actively seeking to know and follow what God is doing today, because, unless God builds the house the labourers work in vain. Ps 127.1

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  2. Spirit empowered
    <\/strong>Expecting and making space to encounter God’s presence in everything we do, because: the same power that raised Christ from the dead is living in us. Rom 8.11, and Eph. 1. 17-21

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  3. Open and inclusive
    <\/strong>Offering a generous, grace-filled welcome, that values difference, encourages questioning, and enables honesty, integrity and transparency, because just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. And so the body is not made up of one part but of many... 1 Corinthians 12. 12-27 

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  4. Fully engaged<\/strong>
    offering everyone opportunities for contributing as well as receiving, seeking after God’s kingdom not our own comfort, and intentionally engaging in: Evangelism; Social Action; and Campaigning for Change, because each of us should use whatever gift we have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4.10

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  5. Always growing<\/strong>
    Growing in numbers, growing in depth of faith & knowledge, and growing closer together, by nurturing robust, personal faith at all ages, supporting families of all kinds in the struggles and joys of life, and working to connect with each other in genuine, diverse, caring relationship, because speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4: 15-16<\/em>\n

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    If you would like to know more or we can help you get connected in any way please do contact us.  Your first point of contact is Sue Nelson our Office Administrator, email churchoffice@holyapostles.org.uk or call 01242 242570.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

    Senior Leadership Team<\/strong><\/h2><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    Revd Canon Ashley Collishaw - Vicar<\/h5>\n

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    \"Revd<\/span>
    Revd Rob Atkin
    Curate<\/h5>\n

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    Neil Foulger
    Warden<\/h5>\n

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    \"Martin<\/span>
    Martin Hall
    Warden<\/h5>\n

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    \"Fiona<\/span>
    Fiona Foulger
    Treasurer<\/h5>\n

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    \"Revd<\/span>
    Revd Barbara Knight

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    \"Paul<\/span>
    Paul Knight

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    \"Howard<\/span>
    Howard Naylor

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    Margaret Gwynne

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    Church Officers & Staff<\/strong><\/h5><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    Sue Nelson
    Church Administrator<\/h5>\n

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    Penny Metcalfe
    Children, Families,
    and Youth Lead<\/h5>\n

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    Candace Plouffe
    Safeguarding Officer<\/h5>\n

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    Louise Hunt
    Pastoral Care Coordinator<\/h5>\n

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    Neil Bennetts
    Worship Pastor<\/h5>\n

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    Ali Hedley
    Assoc. Worship Pastor<\/h5>\n

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    Rob Gill
    Facilities<\/h5>\n

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    Vic Thomas
    Kaleidoscope<\/h5>\n

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    Gill Ford
    Kaleidoscope & Anna Chaplaincy<\/h5>\n

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    Parochial Church Council<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    The PCC is our church council, who are also the trustees for Holy Apostles as a charity. We meet around six times a year and our main responsibility is governance, oversight, and long term strategy for the church. You can contact the PCC via pccsecretary@holyapostles.org.uk.<\/p>\n

    Revd Ashley Collishaw, Chair
    Sharlene Davidson-Lamb (co-opted, PCC Secretary)
    Revd Robert Atkin (curate)
    Neil Foulger, Warden, Lay co-chair
    Martin Hall, Warden, Lay co-chair
    Fiona Foulger, Treasurer (co-opted)
    Margaret Gwynne
    <\/span>David Horton
    Howard Naylor
    John Robinson<\/span>
    Anna Swan
    Claire Waterman
    Tony Whitbread
    David Short (Deanery Synod rep.)
    Mike Stott (Deanery Synod rep.)
    Oriel Wilson (Deanery Synod rep.)
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