We celebrate that God is real, that God is for us and not against us, and can be fully known through Jesus Christ.
Our worship draws on 2000 years of the church’s life, bringing together old and new. You will find a genuine and warm welcome at all of our services, which include weekly Communion services, daily prayer, messy church, and Sunday Club.
There is a Communion service each Sunday at St Luke’s at 10.30am and on the second Sunday of each month we have a less formal Messy service
At Redlands Parish Church we hold daily prayer in the Lady Chapel at St Luke’s on Erleigh Road at 9:00am, and 12 noon every weekday and all are welcome to pause in the middle of the day and make space for God.
At the moment we gather to pray over zoom.
Please contact the office for more details
Take part in the interactive sermons – which have been known to feature chocolate and cake – and join in lively songs as we praise God freely and joyfully. Messy church takes place on the second Sunday of each month at St Luke’s, at 10:30am.
Christine coordinates our lively and fun Sunday Club, which meets every Sunday at St Luke’s for children of Nursery to Year 5 age, except for our all-age Messy Church service on the second Sunday of each month. We sing and use craft to explore the different Bible readings that everyone else is hearing in the service. At the end of the service we show everyone what we have done, and often make people wish they were in Sunday club too!
Rev'd Christine Blackman
Associate Priest
Christine first arrived in Reading in the late 1970s as a Chemistry student at the University.
She taught science at a Comprehensive School in Abingdon until her retirement in 2017.
She trained for the priesthood at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, and was ordained as a deacon in 1991 and as a Priest in 1994. As well as leading worship, Christine makes sure that Sunday Club is the best place to be for our young people aged from Nursery to Year 5 on a Sunday morning.
Rev'd Francis Jakeman
Associate Priest
Francis is a recently-retired Vicar, and has been a priest for forty years.
Having moved to Reading with his wife, Hilary, they can often be found in the Toddler Group in the Church Hall on Wednesday mornings.
Francis is passionate about issues of social justice, and works closely with Embrace, a Christian development charity in the Middle East.
Kirsten Bayes
Church Warden
Prior to setting up a small business in 2016, Kirsten worked in industry as a marketer and technologist. She has also worked as a business school lecturer, and as a peace campaigner. She is a former local councillor for the Redlands area and one-time Deputy Leader of Reading Borough Council. She is on the boards of several non-profits, including Reading Pride; Nuclear Information Service; and is a non-staff director and member of the speaker’s network for Campaign Against Arms Trade.
Jane Kenyon
Church Warden
Jane has been part of the congregation at St Bart’s for many years and has enjoyed working with the group to transform the Church into a performing arts venue. She enjoys gardening and can regularly be found tending to the lawns at the two Churches or working hard in other gardens around the parish. When she’s not busy weeding and mowing, Jane can often be found walking her labrador Holly.