Ty Santes Fair
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A Church for some, a resource for others. A welcome for all.
Our core Weekly activities:
Monday 10.00 am: Men’s Group, a place to come and chat, do some light gardening or whatever the members decide on.
Tuesday 10.00 am: Drop-in for chat and coffee followed by lunch club from midday.
6.00pm: Community Choir for anyone who likes to sing.
Wednesday 1.30 pm: Craft group for all levels of ability/experience.
Thursday 10.00 am: Coffi a Sgwrs (Coffee and Chat) for Welsh speakers and learners.
1.15 pm: Fun Short Mat Bowls for all levels of abilities/experience.
Friday 10.00 am: Feelgood Fridays – for women. A range of activities, speakers etc designed to enhance well-being.
Sunday 3.00 pm: Gorffwysfa Fellowship worship
5.00pm: Informal Evening Worship.
Monthly Meetings:
Second Tuesday of the Month 2.00 pm: St John’s Mothers’ Union
First Friday of the Month 6.30 pm: Teulu Duw (God’s Family) – our Group for children/adults with learning disabilities, along with families and
friends. A mix of worship, craft and food.
First Saturday of the Month 9.00 am: Churches Together Prayer and Coffee, led in turn by members of the various churches and chapels.
Third Saturday of the Month 3-5 pm: Messy Church for families.
Tŷ Santes Fair, our church and community center was built to replace the former St Mary’s, Compton Road, Skewen. The original St Mary’s was built in 1905 as part of the Welsh Revival and set up specifically as a mission church. After many happy and fruitful years of worship there, it was recognised that the original building was no longer fit for purpose, that we were no longer playing an active enough part in the life of the community outside our walls and that we needed to rediscover God’s vision for our role.
The painful decision was made to replace St Mary’s with a Church and Community Centre, continuing as a place of worship and ministering to the needs of those around us, who in turn keep us grounded and remind us that Jesus intended His Church to reflect His love outwards into the world.
Opened in Sept 2018, Tŷ Santes Fair (literally “St Mary’s House) was blessed and dedicated by Bishop June with the prayer, “Bless all who work and worship here, that in tireless service of others they may share in the saving ministry of Christ Your Son, who is Lord forever and ever.”
We provide a variety of activities, religious and non-religious aimed at promoting all aspects of well-being – spiritual, social, emotional and physical.
We work as Tŷ Santes Fair to co-ordinates activities for people in our community and with the Celtic Credit Union and we hire out the premises at other times.