Welcome to St Alphege Church. We hope you will enjoy your visit here and find a warm and friendly welcome. Please click here to open our Welcome Leaflet -- a printable summary of useful information about St Alphege Church.

Welcome to St Alphege Church Whitstable

Whether you are local or visiting the town, you are welcome to all of our events and worship services.

The church is open for private prayer on Fridays and Saturdays from 2 - 4pm, and for gathered worship on Sundays at 9.30am and Wednesdays at 10am.

Whatever your circumstances, if we can help you either celebrate or mourn, pray or grow in faith, we would love to hear from you.  God bless you all. 

Rev Rachel

You are welcome to get in touch: contact us.

“No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here:
If you are young or old, you are welcome If you have brown skin, black skin, white skin, or any colour of skin, you are welcome
If you are married or single, gay or straight, or if you are transgender, you are welcome
If you are a man or a woman, you are welcome
If you cannot hear or see, if you are sick or well, happy or sad, you are welcome
If you are rich or poor, powerful or weak, you are welcome
If you believe in God some of the time or none of the time or all of the time, you are welcome
Come with your gifts, your pain, your hope, your fears
Come with the traditions that have helped you and hurt you
Come with your experiences that have made you and broken you
Come with a mind, ready to engage, and a heart, open to discern
Come and listen for the Sacred Spirit that calls you to love your neighbor wholeheartedly,
seek justice, create peace and practice compassion
You are welcome here! “ Adapted from a welcome by Gordon Brown published in ‘Shaping Sanctuary’ Ed Kelly Turney, 2000