St Mark's lion on St Andrew's flag
St Andrew and St Mark
Surbiton

COURSES

Emmaus Course
Emmaus celebrated a decade of existence last September. In the past ten years it's been used by God as a powerful instrument to bring adults to faith, to nurture new Christians and to inspire life-long discipleship. Thousands of people have grown in their Christian faith as a result.

Our course meets most Mondays at St Mark's Clergy vestry from 8.00-9.30pm. The first module was "Growing in the Scriptures", followed by "Growing in prayer". Later topics include "Being Church", "Growing in Worship - understanding the sacraments" and "Life, Death and Christian hope". Each module of four or five weeks is followed by a social evening which gives a chance for futher discussion and getting to know each other.

If you'd like more details, visit the Emmaus Course website, or contact the Parish Office for details.

Other courses
The Parish runs occasional courses for Advent, Harvest or Lent, and recommends people to attend the local ecumenical courses. More details will be published when available.

Lent 2007 Ecumenical House Groups
Churches Together in Surbiton will be following the Lent Study Course prepared by York Courses. Entitled "Can we build a better world? Learning from William Wilberforce", the course is built around his remarkable life. His great achievement in abolishing the slave trade in Britain is exactly 200 years old. The course is concerned with our discipleship in today's world in the light of his faith and work. It s not a historical course.

The five-week course will run from the week beginning 25 February 2007. More details available from the Parish Office.

Diocesan Training
If you are interested in one of the study courses provided by Southwark Diocese, please see the Bridge Newspaper, log on to their website, or contact Gabrielle Ayerst.