Welcome to the website for the Parish of Langdon Hills.
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Main service times
St Mary's: 9am
St John's 11am
Full list of service times
Contacts
Rector: Colin Hopkinson (01268 542156)
Parish Office: 01268 490400
Further Contact details
Pre-School
Manager: Gaynor Carter (01268 490400)
More about our Pre-School
Christmas Gifts With a Real Mission
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Please consider buying from Tearcraft and bringing hope to those in the world’s poorest communities.
From Our Church Mag – Nov
Yaaaaay, it’s firework month
At least, it seems like a month where I live. They can’t just have them on November the fifth or the closest Saturday, no. It’s every night for about the whole of November and sometimes the last couple of weeks of October as well. Mind you, we don’t appear to have had the October part this year, so maybe we’re in for a quietish November too. Times really are hard, aren’t they?
Confirmation Celebrations
On Sunday the 16th October we hosted a Confirmation Service with the Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell. It was a great time for celebrating the commitment that all the candidates had demonstrate and the support they gained from there friends and family.
St John’s had 12 candidates from our own parish and a similar number from other parishes in our deanery so space was going to be tight! In total we believe we managed to pack in over 190 folks into St John’s Church.
From Our Church Mag – Oct
My garden’s so big
They’ve been teaching the Oak Wood pre-school kids hymns for the harvest service. One tiny was with a parent over by Lincewood primary school and was asked to tell mumsy’s friend about the garden song. It’s one of those dreaded action songs that Colin has us leaping up and down to now and again (hah, he wishes). Guess what the song is. Go on. Give up? You’ll kick yourselves.
Ladies Autumn Breakfast
Ladies come and join us at our Autumn breakfast on Saturday 8th October 8:30-10:30am at St Johns Church, Forest Glade.
Our guest speaker will be Bev Murrill author of “You Can Be God’s Agent for Change”. Tickets will cost £4.00 each. For further details/tickets contact Jill Hurley on 01268-543179
Alpha Praise Service – 18th Sep
Please come and join our Alpha Praise Service, Sunday 18th September, 6.00pm at St John’s Church, Forest Glade, Langdon Hills.
We are holding this service in preparation for our forth coming Alpha programme which will be running this year for 10 sessions starting on Thursday evening, 22nd September at St John’s and a day time programme starting on Friday 23rd September
From Our Church Mag – Sep
How many Ls in mulberry?
It pays to advertise. Last month I happened to mention on my Off the Wall page on Facebook that this month’s article would pose the question above. Just how many Ls are there in mulberry? I now have a following of 3 people that my hook line caught and they are eagerly awaiting this month’s Ben Jericho column. I expect that’s 3 more than usually read it. Read the rest of this entry »
The sun does shine on the righteous!
What a glorious afternoon was had for those attending our annual Family Picnic event on Westley Heights especially given the grey build-up and rain we have had in the last few days.
Apart from enjoying a freshly packed picnic of food and drink with friends a number of fun activities were run including a treasure hunt and church quiz.
How’s That!! – Social Group t20 Cricket Event
The picture to the left is Scott Styris who hit a stonking six to allow Essex Eagles to slay the Glamorgan Dragons. Yet again another new and fantastic evening was had by the St John’s joint Men and Women groups on the 8th July.
Although this was a new event to most people who came along to cheer the Essex Eagles, all said it was a gripping evening of sport which lasted for 2 hours but felt like 20 minutes.
From Our Church Mag – July
Only 6 months until Christmas
I reckon just about everyone in Langdon Hills gets foxes in their gardens, but do you have cubs visit? I love them. The way they play and chase each other up and down my lawn and in and out of my conifers has my rapt attention for ages.
The Alpha course
An exciting time lies ahead for us with the start of this autumn’s Alpha courses at St. John’s Church, Langdon Hills.
Alpha is a 10 week course which gives guests the opportunity to explore the Christian faith and as the advertising says to ‘explore the meaning of life’. It is a chance to ask questions you may have always wanted to ask or to just look at life a little bit deeper. Over 7,000 courses are currently running across the UK and over 2 million people in the UK and 11 million worldwide have now attended an Alpha course.
Messy Church – not on Sundays and fun!!
The next Messy Church will be Saturday, 2nd July at the Methodist Church, High Road, Langdon Hills from 3.00 to 5.00 pm
For families with primary school children. Church as you’ve never known it. Take a look at our photo’s to see what really goes on!
