- Island Way West
- St Mary's Island
- Chatham
- Kent
- ME4 3ST
Welcome
We are a thriving, friendly church committed to our mission statement:
"Creating spaces for our community to encounter Jesus."
St Mary's Island Church holds its services in the school hall
at 11:00 am each Sunday.
Come and join us this
Christmas season.
Sunday 15th at 11am - Carol Service
Sunday 22nd at 11am - Crib Service,
an All-Age Christmas celebration
Christmas Eve 24th at 11pm - Holy Communion
Sunday 29th at 11am - Christingle Service
We will celebrate Holy Communion
on the second Sunday
of each month
at 11am
Come and join us!
We are the church on the island and St Mary's Island School is our home. You will always be greeted with a warm welcome. As with many churches, we are a mixed congregation that reflects the population of the Island, with some of our valued members living ‘outside port limits’.
Whether you're just having a look at our website or searching for a new place to worship, we are delighted to have you here.
Members of our congregation are involved in numerous projects and we have strong links with the island community.
The following activities take place in the Island Community Centre:
- Little Fishes
- Youth Club
- Scouts
Other activities include:
- Children's events
- Ladies' Evenings
- Homegroups
- Prayer Groups
- Trios
- Atlas Place meetings
- Painting and distributing stones for children to find
- Leading worship at St Mary's Island School
- School Governors
Introducing St Mary's Island
St Mary’s Island is made up of some 1,500
properties, mainly houses, mixed with flats, where a pleasant residential area
has been created on the site of what was formerly part of Chatham Dockyard.
The island is completely surrounded by water with a single road providing access.
Driving across the bridge onto the Island, visitors will
immediately see its maritime connections from the yacht basin to the left, the water sports activity basin and commercial dock to the right, and international code flags used to spell out the initial letters of St Mary's Island, SMI in various places.
The C of E Voluntary Aided Primary School was designed to house both school and church, with the school hall doubling as church hall, and included spaces for a church office and storage cupboard. The Hall was licensed for Anglican Worship in 1999 when the school first opened.