Our "Pews News" Blog

By his great-grandson, Peter A Sampson Little did I know, at the outset of my ancestry search after my parents’ passing, that my quest...

A Conversation with Father Colin... As the St James Church community, we recently celebrated with joy – and cake – the 40th anniversary...

Robert & his sweet dog Pipa. After my mother, whom I’d looked after during her illness for three years, died in 2007, I let our house out...

An interview with our Father Colin Jones, Chaplain How did you come to Portugal, and to Porto, Father Colin?   Porto has been my home...

Canon Colin at one of our wine tasting events Canon Colin Travers, Associate Chaplain, introduces himself I settled here in Portugal in...

Dr. Jonathan Ayerst, ably assisted by his son. Jonathan, please tell us about your musical journey to this key role at St James … My...

How did you come to Porto, Claire, and to the Environmental Officer role in St James? To Portugal after Brexit – it was, as far as my...

“It was my mother who first said I had a pianist’s hands … when I turned two years old, she made me a cake in the shape of a piano! I...

...are Susana Field (Teacher) and Srishti Singh (Assistant Teacher). Susana and Srishti are two members of the Children’s Church Team of...

My Portuguese partner of 26 years Jose and I found St James when we came to live in Porto three years ago. We’d left London on the last...

An interview with Tjakko de Jonge   Tjakko, you are understandably delighted with the organ at St James – which was new just two years...

Joseph James Forrester Joseph James Forrester’s life was short by our twenty-first century standards. He drowned – the boat carrying him...

Anne & Matt Dodds Meet Digital Ministry Leaders and Parishioners, Matt and Anne Dodds … Behind this new website – and beyond it, in the...