St Leodegar’s Church, Hunston

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.

St Stephen's Church

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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Our services on 1 March 2026

St Stephen's Church

Canon David Nason took the service this morning, preaching on Faith. We are thankful for his time with us.

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Anne Holderness took the Morning Service – 2nd Sunday of Lent, at St Leodegar’s Church today. Today is also St David’s Day, who is the patron saint of Wales. While Lent focuses on a collective, sombre preparation for the suffering and resurrection of Jesus, St David’s Day is a feast day that highlights the life of a saint whose legacy encourages a simple, purposeful life of service.

Notice

There will be two ‘Joint Services’ this month, in March – both of which will be at 9:30am at St Stephen’s Church (hence NO service at St Leodegar’s on these Sundays):

  • Sunday 15th March (Mothering Sunday)

  • Sunday 29th March (5th service of month – Palm Sunday – Holy Communion)

Joan Duberley & Barry Hutchinson
St Leodegar’s Church, Hunston Churchwardens

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Our services on 22 February 2026

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Wyn Jones took the Holy Communion service this morning.

We are very grateful for his service.

St Stephen's Church

Revd Anne Holderness and Clare Leppard jointly led today’s All Age Morning Praise. The reading was the temptation of Jesus, beautifully read with the assistance of two young ones. A Lego video recaptured the story. Clare’s talk about temptation in our lives involved a plate of biscuits with a “do not touch” sign and a bag that ‘catches thoughts’, making the message interesting and understandable for all.

It was lovely to see people chatting together after church, some also partaking of the refreshments in St Stephen’s Room – and some of the biscuits which were made available by this time!

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Our services on 15 February 2026

St Stephen's Church

Revd David Nason talked enthusiastically about the transfiguration (where Jesus is transformed and revealed in divine glory, accompanied by Moses and Elijah, to strengthen the faith of His disciples). Transfiguration means to be seen in a new light. When we become Christians, our loves should be changed. Our real, true faith shows in the quality of our lives – if it life changing! He challenged us that when he concludes the service with “Go in peace to love and serve the Lord”. Do our lives really reflect this?

St Leodegar's Church

Revd Phillip Meader took the Morning Praise service. In his sermon he explained how, in Jesus’ day, owners of corn used to stamp it with their name (with a wooden seal) so no one could steal the grain they had just purchased from market. Phillip went on to explain how  this is a metaphor for God stamping us Christians with the Holy Spirit, marking us as his own people for eternity. It was a fascinating and engaging sermon, where Phillip preached the good news of the gospel. Many thanked him afterwards and commented on how good it was.

We had 13 people today in total.

Naomi kindly offered to perform music/organ for us today, which was lovely and much appreciated (first time we’ve had a keyboardist in over 3 years!).

Jo Hutchinson did both the readings and the intercessions.

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Village Lunch Clubs

Hunston and Mundham lunch clubs are for the community open to anybody not just over 60s.

Both Lunch clubs continued to serve their communities as they have for over 20 years.

With a two-course meal followed by tea or coffee, and a Raffle.

We are entitle run by volunteers who give their time to help their community.

The lunch clubs run for 11 months of the year:
There is no meeting in January at Hunston.
There is no meeting in August at North Mundham.

We served 302 meals throughout the year of 2025, an average of 27 people each month at Hunston.
We served 241 meals throughout the year of 2025, an average of 22 people a month at North Mundham.

In December we are able to give a free Christmas lunch to those that had attended more than 6 lunches throughout the year.

The meals are mainly cooked from scratch, homemade, with a vegetarian choice and a diabetic pudding option. 

We have the capacity at each lunch club to provide up to 40 lunches per meeting. It would be good if we could recruit more diners to join, as a way of spreading the fixed cost of the hall hire.

We are also in need of some able-bodied volunteers, to help with setting out tables and chairs, serving the meals, and clearing away.

For 2026 both lunch clubs will still run as it has always done and still cost £4.00 a meal.

We look forward to continuing the lunch clubs on into 2026.

Hunston Village Lunch

Dates for 2026

North Mundham Village Lunch

Dates for 2026

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