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One Parish: Two Churches

 Just under two weeks ago Bishop Richard re-dedicated St Mark's Church and we are starting the journey of getting used again to being one parish with two operating churches. It's good for me to make the walk into Surbiton and up the hill to St Mark's. I feel I am re-connecting with a part of the parish that I don't so regularly walk in and I think that is a very good thing. St Mark's end of the parish has a very different feel to St Andrew's; it's easy to forget when you are in the idyllic Maple Road setting that there is a busy Surbiton with a stream of commuters flooding to and from the train station every day. Just spending a little time in St Mark's I remember that it has a large footfall, people really do drop into pray there and that is a challenge for us as a community to consider whether we can keep the church open for that purpose. I remember the first time that I went to Greenbelt and a parish priest from Liverpool was talking about his