Bermondsey Vicar

Faith, hope, and love in south-east London

Saturday, 3 December 2016

He always bloomed

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The poster's a bit battered, and the colours are fading, but it had pride of place at Graham's funeral, because it was the story o...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

The beginning of St Anne's

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More from the Church of England Record Office about the founding of St Anne's..... At that time the parish of St James had 20,000 pe...
Friday, 25 November 2016

Keeping the records in Galleywall Rd

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Most people probably don't know it is there, but just up the road from the Blue in Galleywall Road, is the Church of England Record Ce...
Thursday, 24 November 2016

Mark live

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To Southwark Cathedral tonight for a wonderfully moving performance of Mark's Gospel by the Rev Joseph Morris (left). His website e...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Red Wednesday

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Red Wednesday and London turns red, the colour of blood, to mark the millions killed for their faith Full details here

The Blue Wimpy

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Th e Londonist website has an article about the Wimpy at the Blue and the man who has been eating a Wimpy every day for 31 years   Yo...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Unsearchable riches in Thorburn Square

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When the first vicar of St Anne's arrived in Bermondsey he had no church building and no congregation, so he started preaching in the ...
Monday, 14 November 2016

Ring out those bells

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St James's new bells were rung for the first time on Remembrance Sunday twenty-five years ago. Yesterday we marked the anniversary w...
Sunday, 13 November 2016

Remembering

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Rememembrance Sunday began with an Act of Remembrance at the war memorial in Old Jamaica Road (above) for the Queen's Regiment, Berm...
Saturday, 12 November 2016

When the bishop came to breakfast

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 Our very own bishop in Bermondsey was the latest speaker at our men's breakfast this morning. St James member, and Mission Theolog...
Friday, 11 November 2016

At the eleventh hour

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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh the children of St James's School came to the church today to remember. The ...
Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Central hall, Bermondsey

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Today was our monthly C4T ministers lunch. C4T stands for Christians for Transformation in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, and links together th...
Sunday, 6 November 2016

Greetings frrom Nairobi & Cairo

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St James's received greetings from Nairobi and Cairo today from Lily Botrous, Academi Dean of the Alexandria School of Theology in Egy...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Capital vision

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The Diocese of London, that's Church of England London north of the Thames, is planning to plant 100 new churches by 2020. They call it ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Happy All Saints Day

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There's enough evil in the world anyway without a whole day to celebrate the darker side of life, so goodbye Hallowe'en, and hello...
Monday, 31 October 2016

One little word

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Today is Reformation Day, the day we remember what happened in 1517 when an obscure German monk called Martin Luther nailled his 95 Theses t...
Friday, 21 October 2016

Changing Bermondsey

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From Twitter, a view of St James Church along Frean Street, with Albins Funerals on Old Jamaica Rd (left). Here's another view (also...
Sunday, 16 October 2016

Thomas's story

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This is the full version of the video from which I showed an excerpt at St James this morning: Thomas Blumire - Testimony from Holy Tr...
Saturday, 15 October 2016

The bishop and the four 'alls'

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Bermondsey's own resident bishop, Graham Kings (left), was the speaker at today's Annual General Meeting of the Salmon Youth Cent...

Life story

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Jan Lynas (right) Hot on the heels of last week's Men's Breakfast at St James, today it was the turn of the ladies, with the lat...
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Gary Jenkins
Hi, I am the vicar of St James and St Anne's churches, part of the Bermondsey Group Ministry along with St Mary Magdalen and the Salmon Youth Centre.
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