See the full details of services at Bradwell, Downs Barn, Great Linford, New Bradwell, Stantonbury and Willen during October 2026 here.

Stantonbury Ecumenical Partnership is planning to revive the MK Soup Run, feeding the homeless and those in need.

Sharron Marland, SEP Leadership Team joint lay chair, said: “We had to stop this during Covid and have recently been given the go ahead from Milton Keynes Council to begin again.

“I am suggesting, if we have enough volunteers, that we begin at the beginning of October, to run on Monday and Tuesday evenings only, from 5 to 8pm.

“We would need at least four volunteers each evening and last time this ran, the rota ran over a three week period because we had so many helpers, meaning I did it once every three weeks.”

The tasks involved are; maintaining a WhatsApp group, planning rotas, stocking food cupboards, meeting at Christ Church, Stantonbury, to prepare soup, hot chocolate, hot water for tea and coffee, preparing thermos flasks, picking up food from Pret, Greggs, and anywhere that will give us their spare food.

Volunteers would need to use their cars to transport 2 tables and the food and drink to a spot outside Argos and Marks and Spencer’s (or anywhere else in central MK seen as a place where the homeless congregate but not the train station) and returning items to Christ Church.

“If you could find at least 3 hours once every 3 weeks, please get in touch with me, via the SEP’s admin secretary, Helen Eaton, by email at: sburyepadm@gmail.com if you don’t have my contact details.

“I need to know as early as you can please, so that I know this is possible.

“The Soup Run is very rewarding and the people who come for food and drink are, mostly, extremely appreciative of the support. Others are very quiet, pick up food and drink and simply walk off.”

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Our next SEP-wide service will be held on at 11am on August 30 at 11am at Christ Church Stantonbury.

The annual SEP Tree Cathedral Service will be held at 3pm on September 20, at the end of Heritage Week.

Cross and Stable are inviting everyone to an afternoon tea on Saturday August 22. Please see the Cross and Stable section in the latest SEP Newsletter for details.  This can be downloaded here.

We now have dates confirmed for the beginning of the new SEP Discipleship course, using the resources provided by friends from St Martin in the Fields Church.

It is very much designed to meet and greet enquirers and new converts to Christ, offering a chance to think and ponder the presence of God in the world, and call of Christ upon their lives.

Initially the course will be offered ‘online’ only – with evening meetings on Zoom at 7.30pm. Led by Peterson and Phil.

Full details of the date and how to sign up are contained in this month’s mega SEP newsletter available to download here.

There’s also news of  a new £92 million listed places of worship fund to be administered by Historic England and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Again full details are in the newsletter.

The recent killing of George Floyd has revealed afresh the depths of racism that remain in our world, and the evils that flourish when it is allowed to go unnoticed. Every black life matters, and every black life is of infinite worth in God’s eyes – and ours too.

We abhor racism in all its forms, and are committed to fighting racism, and to pointing to ways in which our society remains unjust and our world unequal.

We are sorry for our failure to recognise racism, our failure to listen to our black sisters and brothers and understand the racism that they have had to endure as an everyday part of their lives, our failure to stand alongside them, and our failure to fight racism and injustice in our communities, in our country and in the world.

We pray that God might be at work in our own lives, in the church, and in the world, revealing and helping us to eradicate racism, and to work for justice and peace in the world that he loved so much that he redeemed it through his Son, Jesus Christ, crucified, buried and risen.