Details of services: We meet for worship in Bancroft's School Chapel every Sunday morning from 11am to approximately 12noon. Visitors are welcome to join us for tea or coffee after the service in the school.    Our Sunday morning services are led by visiting preachers from the Anglican, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, Roman Catholic and United Reformed Church, as well as the Moravian and Pentecostal Churches, The Salvation Army, House Churches and various urban and overseas missions.  The style of worship in our services may, therefore, vary from week to week and the Sacrament of Holy Communion is celebrated (monthly) in either Anglican or Non Conformist style, depending on the visiting preacher. PREACHING LIST: April to June 2010 All services begin at 11.00am unless otherwise stated     2010 April   2nd Revd John Edwards Good Friday (10am) Pastoral Minister, WWEC CF           4th Revd John Edwards Easter Sunday (11am) Pastoral Minister, WWEC          11th Revd Jill Stephens President, Congregational Fellowship          18th Revd Dr. Stephen Heap National Higher Education adviser, C of E          25th Mr Colin Kemp Christian Aid Legacy Manager CA May   2nd Revd Paul Harcourt Vicar, All Saints, Woodford Green           9th Major Judith Schultz Salvation Army Industrial & Community chaplain        16th Dr Keith White Director, Mill Grove Children's & community centre, South Woodford        23rd Revd John Edwards Pastoral minister, WWEC        30th Revd John Richardson Shared ministry, Ugley, Henham & Elsenham CF June  6th Revd John Parker Minister Emeritus, Silver End congregational church        13th Revd Ian Richardson Baptist minister        20th Revd Dr. Janet Wootton Director of Studies, Congregational Federation        30th Revd John Edwards Pastoral minister, WWEC CA  =   Anglican Tradition Communion                            CF  =  Free Church Tradition Communion   Return to top

About some of this quarter's preachers

Revd John Edwards has  been a close friend of the fellowship since before the birth of WWEC. John was for many years the Minister of Wanstead URC. He currently gives pastoral support to the Christian Education Project workers (Redbridge Schools) and is active in the local Peace and Justice movement, working with leaders from all faiths.  He was inducted as our third pastoral minister in December 2007.

Revd Jill Stephens  is President of the Congregation Federation for 2009/10. Formerly a Primary School Teacher, she is minister at Berkeley, Longney and North Nibley churches, Gloucester. She was appointed as a Church Support Worker for SW Area Congregational Federation in 1997.  This is her first visit to WWEC.

Revd Dr. Stephen Heap  visited us first in 1995 when he was one of the Chaplains for Higher Education in London University. He was later one of 11 staff, 5 of them clergy, at an ecumenical city-centre church in Milton Keynes . In 2008 he became the Ecumenical Co-ordinating Chaplain to the University of Bedfordshire and Director of Bedfordshire Ecumenical Lay Institute of Education.

Mr. Colin Kemp is Head of Legacies at Christian Aid.  This is his first visit to WWEC.

Revd Paul Harcourt formerly curate, now Vicar of All Saints Woodford Green, has led our worship several times since 1997.

Major Judith Schultz is the Salvation Army’s Industrial and Community chaplain. Her first visit to WWEC was in 2007.

Dr. Keith White is Director of Mill Grove, a children’s and community centre, where he and his wife Ruth and a team of staff, in addition to running the centre, host local Christian Groups’ meetings, including a lunchtime Forum for local Church leaders. He is an Associate Lecturer at Spurgeon’s College, and Chair of The Child Theology Movement.  His first visit to WWEC was in September 1999.  Keith has presented us with a Family Bible which he has developed.

Revd John Richardson first came to us in 1985. He was Anglican Chaplain to the University of East London and, after a period as Assistant Minister at St. John’s Church, Stratford East he moved to share ministry in the Anglican Churches of Henham, Elsenham and Ugley, in Essex. He is the author of several religious books.

Revd John Parker was first introduced to WWEC by the Rector of St.Helen’s Bishopsgate, Revd Dick Lucas, in 1983 and he has been preaching here regularly ever since. ( Over 100 times beginning in April 1983). He preceded Revd Carol McCarthy as Pastoral Minister of WWEC from 1991-1994.  John is now Minister Emeritus at Silver End Congregational Church.  John was a banker by profession before ordination and long service in the Congregational Church, in which he rose to be President of the Federation.

Revd. Ian Richardson calls himself an “Anglican/Baptist” so he’s sure to feel at home with us! He was active in programmes for the unemployed at Hertford Regional College, and has been Manager of another project, “Access to Employment and Training” which has helped over 1000 people into work in past 5 years.

Revd Dr.Janet Wootton was previously Minister at churches in East Anglia and, later, at Union Chapel, Islington, and is now Director of Studies for the Congregational Federation. She has served as  Moderator of the International Congregational Fellowship and as President of the Congregational Federation. She was founder co-chair of the International Congregational Theological Commission, and is editor of the International Congregational Journal. Janet is also on the editorial team for the Feminist Theology Journal, and has been involved in the production of various hymn resources. At the end of 2003 she took up the post of Director of Studies for the Integrated Training Course of the Congregational Federation, on which she had been tutor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages for some years.  She worships at Bunyan Meeting a joint Congregational/Baptist Church in Bedford .