My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   » Special interest discussion   » Ecclesiantics   » 3182: Holy Trinity Broadstairs Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: 3182: Holy Trinity Broadstairs verity Apprentice # 18571 Posted                        We went back to HT Broadstairs this week. I'm pleased to say that they seem to have implemented remedies to a couple of my criticisms. Firstly, the abandoned table has become a welcoming table with a person stationed at it throughout the service (inside the main doors so they aren't stuck in the porch the whole service) And secondly (which probably should be firstly), their website now clearly states that the council carpark is expensive and that free on-street parking is available nearby! Yippee! Mystery Worshipper works! I feel like I have so much power I won't let it go to my head though. I just wanted to point it out to say that I was imoressed that they really do mean it when they say they want to be inclusive. Posts: 21 | From: Kent | Registered: Mar 2016  |  IP: Logged dj_ordinaire Host # 4643 Posted                           A link to the report is here... -------------------- Flinging wide the gates... Posts: 10335 | From: Hanging in the balance of the reality of man | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Doone Shipmate # 18470 Posted                        Very cheering, verity - sounds like a wonderful church family! Posts: 2208 | From: UK | Registered: Sep 2015  |  IP: Logged Bishops Finger Shipmate # 5430 Posted                        Yes, thanks for the update, verity. It's good to hear of a lively and welcoming Anglo-Catholic church, given the widespread belief that a sad state of inevitable decline is the norm for the C of E... A congregation of well over 100 is not too bad, given the size of the parish (population about 6200). The parish is about average in terms of urban deprivation - not too badly off, but not particularly affluent, either. IJ -------------------- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. (Wilkie Collins) Posts: 10151 | From: Behind The Wheel Again! | Registered: Jan 2004  |  IP: Logged verity Apprentice # 18571 Posted                        And it wasn't all seasonal either - there didn't seem to be a lot of visitors. And even though it was the summer holiday, there were families with young children. I'm increasingly of the opinion that churches need to offer more than just the Sunday service to thrive - that extra "community" is what makes a church. Posts: 21 | From: Kent | Registered: Mar 2016  |  IP: Logged Ecclesiastical Flip-flop Shipmate # 10745 Posted                        I was in Broadstairs last year and got to the Church, but alas for me, it was locked. Thus, I appreciate reading this report which makes good reading. -------------------- Joyeuses Pâques! Frohe Ostern! Buona Pasqua! ¡Felices Pascuas! Happy Easter! Posts: 1946 | From: Surrey UK | Registered: Dec 2005  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0