{"id":1153,"date":"2015-01-25T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?page_id=1153"},"modified":"2021-10-29T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:58:20","slug":"sunday-worship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/worship\/sunday-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We believe that what we do in church on a Sunday should affirm and support us for whole-life discipleship, equipping us for the work we do in the world during the week.\u00a0 The worship, teaching and prayer encourage us to serve God using our talents and skills, and help to equip us for life\u2019s major challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trinity is an inclusive church where everyone is welcome.\u00a0 We come from many different backgrounds, nationalities and experiences to encounter God in our worship, and our theology likewise covers a fairly broad spectrum, valuing tradition\u00a0but open to new ways of worship\u00a0and understanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our worship style is traditional and normally quite formal, but the congregation is open to a variety of styles of worship and some experimentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We gather for worship each Sunday at 11:00.\u00a0 Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of each month, and also on Maundy Thursday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our services generally follow the liturgical calendar.\u00a0 Special Sundays are marked such as Rededication Sunday in October, the Season of Creation, and Commitment for Life during Lent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u2018normal\u2019 pattern of our worship is that the whole congregation meets together for the first part of the service, and this includes a time for children and families.\u00a0 Following this, the children leave for their own time together, and the Chinese-speaking group leaves for their worship in Cantonese in the Old Hall.\u00a0 On Communion Sundays, both groups later return to the church to join the rest of the congregation for the celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We believe that what we do in church on a Sunday should affirm and support us for whole-life discipleship, equipping us for the work we do in the world during the week.\u00a0 The worship, teaching and prayer encourage us to serve God using our talents and skills, and help to equip us for life\u2019s major &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/worship\/sunday-worship\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday worship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2054,"parent":1150,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-image.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1153","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18015,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions\/18015"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}