St Leodegar’s Church, Hunston

Today at our churches

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Roger Pullen took the Morning Praise service today at St Leodegar’s Church. We had 13 people attend the service today. Roger preached on Matthew 9 & 18, which contains accounts of Jesus breaking religious rules to offer grace and healing – rather than demanding perfect behaviour, Jesus actively seeks out outcasts, heals the sick, and even restores the dead to show God’s unconditional love. As God’s chosen people – we are all holy and dearly loved, so we should embrace ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. We should bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances we may have against one another. We are called to forgive as the Lord forgives us. It is love, which binds these virtues all together in perfect unity.

St Stephen's Church

Revd Canon David Nason took our Holy Communion service today. The readings this week, and right up until advent, are about “what we do”, each a different aspect of our faith. Do we hear God’s calling? Do we have faith to follow Him? In today’s readings we looked at:

  • Abram’s faith (at age of 75 God said to him “follow my words and I will lead you”). At age 100 God promises Abraham a son.
  • Jewish laws require obedience to more than 600 rules and life was ticking boxes. Paul writes in Romans that it is not about ticking boxes but hearing the call and living in faith.
  • Matthew proves that nobody is beyond redemption. Anyone can hear God’s call and have faith.
  • The leader of synagogue comes to Jesus, having faith that Jesus can heal his daughter.
  • The woman who suffered from bleeding had faith that Jesus could heal her.

How are we doing in pleasing God in will and deed?

Sunday School

Sunday School continued looking at Creation in Genesis, focusing on birds and sea creatures. They had a lot of fun. There was a selection of activities that the children could choose from: painting rocks to represent animals, having a race with paper ducks, mosaics of animals, and even bird watching in the garden.

Everyone enjoyed the feedback that the children gave on all the activities just before the end of the service. Lots of laughter!

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Today at our Joint Holy Communion Service in St Stephen’s Church

Revd David Nason led a wonderful service on Trinity Sunday today. He explained that God the Father, God the Son and Goth the Holy Spirit is one God but experienced in 3 different ways. His stole represented the trinity: Jesus the Son through the top cross, then the Holy Spirit through the dove and God the Father through the universal Jerusalem cross.

God the Father is the creator God.

Jesus is God the Son, who came to earth through love (Jon 3:16), a face to face meeting with God.

God the Holy Spirit is the comforter (literally means with strength) and helps us to share our faith.

The triune God is not just an interesting theological concept, but an invitation to have a journey with God through faith. The challenge to us is to do a spiritual self-assessment.

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14)

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Today at our churches

Today at St Stephen’s Church

Clare Leppard, Authorised Lay Minister or ALM, led a virtual service for Rogationtide. She cleverly used pictures she had taken of places around the church and village to “stop at” and pray for issues relevant to it. We considered the blessings that God provides for us as well as how we have neglected good care of nature.

Rogation Walk

A small group of people walked from St Stephen’s Church to St Leodegar’s Church to join in the Holy Communion service there. We carried the rogation cross with us over the fields.

Today at St Leodegar’s Church

In today’s Holy Communion service, Revd Wyn Jones picked out 2 themes from the readings to highlight God and our relationship with him:

  • God is not an unknown god. He is all things to us, the Creator, and he can be known by us. When we share our faith, we start where we are and tell our story of how we know God.
  • We are adopted as children of God. What we had before does not count anymore as we have a new family in God. With Pentecost, God fulfilled the promise that we shall not be left on our own.
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2026 Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) : 17 May 2026

Date: 17 May 2026

Time: 11am

Venue: St Stephen’s Church, North Mundham

The 2026 APCM will be held after a joint service with St Leodegar’s Church, Hunston and St Stephen’s Church, North Mundham.

You are most welcome to join us for church and the meeting afterwards.

Minutes of the 2025 APCM
Agenda for the 2026 APCM

St Stephen’s Church 2025 Report

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St Leodegar’s Church 2025 Report

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If you have any comments or questions about the documentation included in this email, please contact Helen Alexander (Chair) or Tony Atkins (Secretary).

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Today at our churches

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Roger Pullen took our Morning Praise service today. We had 14 members of the congregation attend today. The sermon focused on Eastertide themes (Acts 7 and John 14). We looked at transitioning from Easter joy into daily discipleship, focusing on trust, the comfort of Jesus, and living with hope amidst world challenges.

St Stephen's Church

Revd David Nason covered all 3 of today’s readings. Stephen was the first martyr because he kept talking about Jesus and the new way, so much so that we was willing to lose his life. Church is not buildings, but ‘living stones’ – not a club but a way of life, a new way. Jesus promised that He is going ahead of us to prepare a place for us in His Father’s house.

If you want to read these texts, again: Acts 7:55-60; 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14

Sunday School looked at God’s wonderful creations. They created galaxy bottles with paint, glitter and cotton wool, drew pictures and planted sunflower seeds.

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Sunday at our churches

St Stephen's Church

We were very happy to welcome Revd Stephen Everard and his wife Jane back to St Stephen’s! Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. Today’s readings were not random, but chosen to for this day. The Acts reading is about the early church, with no structure but describing how the Christians lived. The Peter reading talks about suffering and enduring it, bringing us back to the Good Shepherd. In the Gospel reading in John, Jesus calls himself both the Good Shepherd and the gate to the sheepfold (which would have meant literally laying across the entry to protect the sheep). How do we respond to these readings? We should learn to recognise Jesus’ voice, by living much like the early Christians: gathering together in His name, listening to God’s word, breaking bread together and being generous and openhearted.

Little Gems

Little Gems looked at the story of how Peter met Jesus “I met Jesus on the beach”.

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Philip Meader took our Holy Communion service. We focused on John 10:1-10, which reminds us how Jesus is the Good Shepherd who calls us by name. Terry Hoad led the prayers, Marjorie Coward did readings, and Joanne Hutchinson served. We had 14 people attend today.

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Today at our churches

St Leodegar's Church

Today’s Morning Praise service was led by Revd Roger Pullen and focussed on Jesus appearing to two of his followers on the road to Emmaus. It was explained to us that calling Jesus the Lamb of God is a fitting title and we were reminded how Jesus came back to earth after Easter to prove that He is indeed God’s Son.

St Stephen's Church

Revd Roger Pullen led the Holy Communion service. He spoke about the scripture where Jesus appears to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. He talked about the fact that there were two types of kingdoms and powers in play at the time:

The Roman Emperor, seeing himself as a lion or a hawk and wanting to exercise control. He would be riding a war horse.

Jesus, on the other hand, is known as the Lamb of God. He has compassion and wants reconciliation rather than control. He entered Jerusalem on a donkey.

Sunday School was on today. The children made bookmarks. They had lots of fun.

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Easter weekend services

St Leodegar's Church

Easter Sunday

Naomi played for us after St Stephen’s Church with a great choice of worship songs. It was a wonderful service with a good, powerful message from Revd Roger Pullen. Freshly baked Easter biscuits from Chef Sue followed after the service.

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Hour at the Cross

The Hour at the Cross, led by Revd Wyn Jones was very moving. He looked at the Cross through the eyes of 3 characters: Caiaphas, Simon of Cyrene and the Roman Centurion in charge of the crucifixion. By giving background to the persons and some dramatisation, the passion story was made very real. Revd Anne Holderness then read the passion from John 18 and 19. Jesus laid down his life for us today. It is not just a story from the past, but very relevant to our lives today. Have you accepted Christ as your Saviour?

Easter Sunday

The Easter Sunday service was led by Revd Wyn Jones. His sermon was on the Resurrection of Christ. The members of the congregation dressed the cross with flowers.

The children had an Easter Egg hunt, they also made an Easter Garden.

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Our services on 22 March 2026

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Philip Meader took our service today. He gave a thoughtprovoking and engaging sermon – the raising of Lazarus after four days in the tomb is Jesus greatest miracle, but it is also the seventh sign in the Gospel of John, the sign with the greatest theological significance. Jesus’ raising of Lazarus prefigures our own bodily resurrection. Just as Jesus raises a shout at Lazarus tomb, he will descend from heaven with a shout, calling the dead to burst from their graves.

St Stephen's Church

How do you hear God’s voice? Today’s reading was about the Resurrection of Lazarus. Even after 4 days in the grave, he still heard Jesus’ voice when He called Lazarus from the grave. Revd Wyn Jones mentioned some of the ways in which we can hear God’s voice and challenged us to hear His voice in our own lives.

Little Gems looked at Zaccheus, who met Jesus up a tree! Jesus meets us where we are, and for Zaccheus that was up a tree!

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Our services on 8 March 2026

St Stephen's Church

Rev Roger Pullen shared an insightful message around the Samaritan woman at the well, filling in some background information to enhance the meaningfulness of her encounter with Jesus. Revd Anne Holderness led prayer based on the Psalms, very relevant for the current world situation, with time for quiet reflection and personal prayers.

As usual, many stayed for refreshments and a social catchup in St Stephen’s Room.

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Roger Pullen preached on the story of the Samaritan woman (John 4) which teaches that Jesus offers salvation to everyone, regardless of past sins, social status, or cultural barriers. We were reminded how Jesus is the source of “living water” that provides eternal satisfaction, the importance of honest worship in spirit and truth, and the transformation that leads to sharing one’s testimony.

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