Church Links

St Luke's seeks to take a full role in inter-church activities and belongs to both the Sevenoaks and District Council of Churches and to the North-West Fellowship of Churches. It has links with parishes in Harare, Cergy-Pontoise and Liverpool and tries to give meaningful support to the Church's world-wide mission through Christian Aid and other agencies.

Church Mission Society.
We at St Luke's consider our link with CMS to be very important. CMS encourages and support the philosophy that local mission and world mission are not divided but very much partners in the life of the church. St Luke's shares this understanding and it informs our own mission activities at all levels.

Church Mission Society - PO Box 1799, Oxford. OX4 9BN Website:- www.cms-uk.org

CMS Mission Partners.
It is our joy and privilege at St Luke's to support a family who have recently moved to India from the UK through CMS. They are:- Eric and Rhena Clouston and their two children, Kitty and Samuel. They are working with TAFTEE which is an organisation that provides opportunities for people in South India to take up accredited bible and ministerial studies. Students are already active in ministry on campuses and slums so the work clearly goes beyond the normal bible training. Click here to read the latest news from the Clouston family.

St Cyprians, Edge Hill, Liverpool.
St Luke's has had a link with this Merseyside parish since 1998, set up by David Lewis, Vicar of St Cyprian's and Robert Chavner, previously Vicar of St Luke's.

Following the retirement of David Lewis and Robert's appointment as Vicar of Brighton, the congregations continued the link and now under the guidance of Mike Coates in Liverpool and Mark Griffin in Sevenoaks, the churches pray regularly for each other in very different situations, and mutually support each other as seeking to find God's will for the future.

Cergy - Pontoise, France.
Sevenoaks is twinned with Pontoise in France and St Luke's has been linked to the reformed church of Cergy since 1987. We believe we have much to offer each other in prayerful and practical support and many friendships have been formed between members of our two churches. Groups of people from St Luke's have visited L'Eglise Reformee in Cergy in the recent past.

Harare Marondera.
St Luke's has had a link with the parish of Marondera since the late 1990's as part of the link between the diocese of Rochester and the diocese of Harare. Although the link has been suspended in recent years, we still support our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe in our thoughts and prayers. Last year Bishop Bakare visited us as part of his trip to the UK and we are always keen to support his work and to keep abreast of developments within Zimbabwe.