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title: "Church"
url: "https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/our-worship"
school: "St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery"
---
# Church
## St Matthew's Church
### Church
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St Matthew’s church is next door to our school. We have very good links with our local church and our vicar, Reverend McHaffie, and our Curate, Rev Dan, lead our worship regularly. This year this has been by recorded videos as they are not able to visit us yet. We also enjoy the worship led by the group, ‘Open the Book’ from St Stephen’s Church who lead us in worship and share stories from the Bible with us in an exciting way.
We work together with the Church to serve our local community. During the pandemic we have worked together to provide Food Parcels for our school families and more recently a regular Friday Foodmarket for our school community. This has been provided in conjunction with the organisation, Fareshare, another of our Community links.
We normally visit our church to share special celebrations such as Harvest festival and Christmas. You can some of our recent celebrations in these photos:
### Special Celebrations in Church
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Our school prayer:
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Oh Lord bless our school,
So that working together and playing together
We may learn to serve you and serve one another.
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Amen
Click on the link below to find out about our parish
### Christian Distinctiveness
- [Vision and Mission Statement ](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/vision-and-mission-statement)
- [Religious Education](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/r-e-syllabus)
- [SIAMS Inspection ](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/siams-inspection)
- [School Values ](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/school-values)
- [Church](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/our-worship)
- [Worship](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/worship)
- [Courageous Advocacy](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/our-charity-work)
- [Special Days ](https://stmatthewspreston.co.uk/christian-distinctiveness/special-days)
- [](https://st-matthewscofe.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/our-awards)
- [](https://st-matthewscofe.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/our-awards)
- [](https://st-matthewscofe.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/our-awards)
##### Location
New Hall Lane
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 5XB
##### Contact Us
01772 794482
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