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Vicar retires The Revd David Page, vicar of St Barnabas' since 1991, has retired. David will be living in Winchelsea, East Sussex. 13 April 2008 |
New Vicarage St Barnabas' is to have a new vicarage. The new house will be built on the site of the existing vicarage at 12 Lavender Gardens, together with two other houses that will be sold to pay for the project. The existing vicarage was built in the 1920s and is far too big for the purpose, and expensive to run and to maintain. It is expected that work on the project, unfortunately delayed, will begin in May 2008 and that the house will be ready in March 2009. 11 March 2008 |
Barn Bance The first social event of 2008 was a highly sucessful Barn Dance held on Saturday 2nd February. No one can now say that St Barnabas' lacks rhythm! 9 February 2008 |
Ash Wednesday Service We hosted the Ash Wednesday Service for the churches of South Battersea on 6th February - a service of Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes. The preacher was Nick Morris, who is minister at Northcote Road Baptist Church. 9th February 2008 |
Nursery Nativity Play Parents and friends joined the congregation as the children of Barnaby Bright Nursery School performed their Nativity Play during the service on 9th December. They also performed the play for the Stroke Club the following day. Nursery School Website 10 December 2007 |
Christmas Carols We held a service of Carols by Candlelight on Sunday 16th December in church and sang Carols on the Common on Wednesday 19th. The carol singing took place on Clapham Common opposite the church, and mince pies and mulled wine were served inside. As in past years, we were accompanied by Nunhead Salvation Army Band. The money we collected went to help with Salvation Army projects. 20 December 2007 |
May Contain Nuts TV crews were at St Barnabas' in late October filming scenes for an ITV dramatisation of John O'Farrell's novel "May Contain Nuts" which is scheduled for transmission in 2008. More here 30 October 2007 |
Craft Fair Our second Craft Fair took place on Saturday 10th November. There were craft stalls, and craft activity workshops for children and teenagers. Teas and lunches were also served. 15 November 2007 |
Honorary Curate The Revd Keith Bishop has joined St Barnabas' as honorary curate. Keith is 61, married to Sue, with two grown up daughters, Anna and Beth. For the last 24 years they have lived in Magdalen Road. Keith cycles to Roehampton four days a week to work as an accountant at a retreat and conference centre. He was Reader at St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common, before being ordained and serving as curate for four years at St Mary's, Balham. His other passions are gardening, walking, cycling, skiing, scuba diving and rock climbing. Keith was licensed as Honorary Curate by the Archdeacon of Wandsworth at morning service on 21st October and there was a lunch afterwards to welcome him. 21 October 2007 |
Harvest We held a bring-and-share harvest lunch after service on 30th September. This year we collected gifts for Ace of Clubs - the Clapham project that works with homeless people. More information on Ace of Clubs here. 30 September 2007 |
Away Day Members of St Barnabas' joined a group from St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church in Altenburg Gardens to travel to St Lucy's Convent, Medstead in Hampshire for a retreat cum pilgrimage cum awayday on Saturday 6th October. 21 October 2007 |
Summer Evening Concert South West London Choral Society returned to St Barnabas' on 7th July to perform Duruflé's 'Requiem' and motets by Michael Haydn. SWLCS website. 8 July 2007 |
Interfaith Explorer A group of up to fifty people from local churches came together on four Monday evenings in June and July to listen to speakers talking about major world faiths and to ask questions. Interfaith Explorer was the initiative of St Barnabas' churchwarden Cicely Meehan. The Revd Alan Gadd, Secretary of the South London Interfaith Group opened the series with a talk about Christian approaches to world faiths. He was followed by Rabbi James Baaden of the South London Liberal Synagogue and Ephraim Rashid of the Hyderi Islamic centre in Streatham. The final talk of the series, on the Sikh faith, was given by Ranjit Singh Kalsi. South London Interfaith Group. Clapham and Stockwell Faith Forum. 3 July 2007 |
Confirmation 2007 Three members of St Barnabas were confirmed by the Bishop of Southwark at Christ Church, Battersea on 10th June - Lena O'Dwyer, Prima Obaka (who was also baptised) and Nick Martin. 12 June 2007 |
Latest view from the traffic camera outside St Barnabas'  |