St Leodegar’s Church, Hunston

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St Stephen's Church

Revd Wyn Jones talked about hospitality in the Bible:

  • Abraham offered hospitality visitors who turned out to be the Lord and two angels. Their conversation was about if Sodom and Gomorrah can be saved, Conversation in hospitality can make a difference.

  • Jesus went to all the parties that rabbis would not go to as it would make them unclean. This hospitality changed people’s lives.

  • Lydia always offered hospitality to Paul. The Shunammite woman always offered hospitality to Elisha.

Hospitality can be a conversation or welcoming someone in your home… An everyday action done in God’s name can have eternal value!

Ask yourself: What part do I play in God’s bigger story? It may be tiny or very big, but we all have a role to play.

Little Gems

Little Gems concluded their series “Jesus meets us where we are”. Today Martha, Mary and Lazarus met Jesus at home.

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Nigel Mason led our service today with the sermon being that God recognises and takes pleasure in even the little things that we do for others as serving him, that no act of serving is too small. And how we are all just as valuable and loved by God.

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St Leodegar's Church

Today St Leodegar’s Church welcomed back Revd Stephen Everard, and Jane and Naomi. Stephen talked about Mathew’s Gospel in his sermon, reminding us how much we are loved by God and putting the words of The Bible into context so that we understood more of the most difficult passages. We also thanked God for fathers as it is Father’s Day and thanked God for being our heavenly Father and sending his Son to save us from our sins. Naomi Lott kindly played the organ for us.

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It was a pleasure to have Revd Wyn Jones with us today. He brought together the current football fever, the Gospel readings and Father’s Day. Surprisingly, there are some parallels between football fans and followers of Jesus, or at least challenges to us as Christians!

  • By looking at the lives and clothes of a football fan, and by speaking to him/her, you can very quickly tell who they are supporting.
  • Football fans like to come together and sing.
  • As Christians we should be easy to recognise for our passion of faith through how we act and speak.
  • We like to meet together and sing to praise God.

The Gospel reading also talked about how God cares for a sparrow and even the hair on our heads. He is the ideal Father who deeply loves and cares for us, his children. Even though we fall woefully short, fathers do aim to love their children in the same way.

The fathers and men in the congregation were given some Celebration chocolates to celebrate their role as Fathers!

Sunday School

The children told us about the lovely activities they did, which included Bible stories that had fathers in them, decorating shoeboxes for their dates and filling them with notes about why they love their dads, and making a 0s and Xs game to represent the hugs and kisses they give their dads.

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St Stephen's Church

Revd Peter Mallinson took today’s service. Father Peter focused on the 12 apostles in the Gospel reading. Twelve is also a dozen. He drew a parallel to the Dirty Dozen movie: men whom the world did not hold in high regard were chosen and with the right moulding from an unconventional leader, they succeeded in their difficult mission.

Jesus is also.an unconventional leader who picked 12 ordinary men with no specific qualifications for an unprecedented mission. Jesus even said the mission would be like sheep going into the midst of wolves.

Today we are the current “dozen” for Jesus. The dangers are not as big as for the apostles, but our faithfulness is required. Ordinary people are called to share the Gospel.

It was really good to have Father Peter with us!

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Roger Pullen took the Holy Communion service today at St Leodegar’s. We had 14 people in the congregation. Jo Williams and her granddaughter, Lois, took the prayers, and Naomi played the organ for us today. Today’s sermon focused on Simon (the zealot) who was a political rebel who wanted to free the Jewish people from the Roman government. Simon had a ‘holy zeal’ (passion for God) – we examined his intense human ambition, comparing it with the loving grace of Jesus. Simon learned to channel his fight against Rome into sharing the good news of God’s love. The lesson is that Jesus calls all types of people.

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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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