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Recently Added: Safeguarsing: Diocesan Letter Remembrance Services Photos Bromley Food Bank Harvest Festival Photos Coach Trip Canterbury St. Nicholas Toddler Groups Sunday School Autumn Prog. Senior Senior School Prog. All Recent Events Charity in Focus: St. Giles Centre At our PCC meeting held on Monday 13th October 2023 the PCC decided to suspend our charitable giving for the whole of 2024, with the exception of the Parish Fete.  The reason for this is that we hope that work on the St. Giles Centre will beginin earnest shortly. Read More
	Clergy Reflections	Welcome to the website of the Parish of Farnborough, in the London Borough of Bromley. We hope that you will enjoy reading these pages about our church and community.
	Over the past one thousand years countless people have come here to worship God, to celebrate, to mark the important events in their families' lives and to seek meaning, comfort, and strength from God along life's journey. As we appreciate the physical beauty of St. Giles and learn about its long history, I trust that we will also remember that St. Giles and St. Nicholas have been, and are, living and active Christian communities seeking to witness faithfully to the saving love of Christ.   Wherever you are, please remember our parish and its work in your thoughts and prayers. Matthew J. Hughes, Rector

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At the heart of everything we do is a belief in the eternal and life giving love of God perfectly revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  This love is stronger than sin, hatred, sickness or death.  It is the pearl of great price and the meaning and purpose of life. We believe that we are called to follow the commandments of Christ - to love ourselves, to love our neighbours and to love God with everything we have.  We recognise that this is not always easy, especially as Jesus reminds us that love and forgiveness are inseparable. 

We are by no means a perfect community, neither do we have all the answers and all the confidence that some would associate with strong beliefs and faith. However we each try to love as God has called us to, acknowledging that we are all works in progress being inwardly and outwardly transformed into the likeness of Christ through the power of the Spirit.  

At St. Giles you will be free to be yourself in community, to discover who you are and what you can become through God's transforming love.  You will be allowed to grow, to explore, to change at your own pace and in your own way.  When you come you will always receive a warm welcome and when you can't you will not be judged.  When life takes you into suffering there will be love and care around you, when you  want to help your gifts will be appreciated, and when you are tired there will be space for you to rest.  At St. Giles we learn from each other and especially from our children, from the weak, the vulnerable.  We remember with deep concern the world's oppressed, voiceless, poor and destitute and we do what we can to put love into action as Jesus has taught us.  
 

Parish Boundaries: See Map Parish Office: St. Giles Centre Church Road, Farnborough Orpington BR6 7DB tel: 01689 853471  stgilesparishoffice@gmail.com Office Hours : Tuesday to Friday. 09:00-16:00 Website: Nick Reynolds:  nickrstgiles@gmail.com The Parish of Farnborough is within the Orpington Deanery of the Diocese of Rochester