Welcome to the website of the Parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire.
Here you will be able to find something about the worship, activities, purpose, and the history of the Anglican Church in the Parish of Abbots Langley, which is part of the Diocese of St Albans within the Church of England.
For the most up-to-date information please look at our weekly leaflet which can be found by clicking on the appropriate date - 2nd March (the Sunday next before Lent); 9th March (the First Sunday of Lent).
We have two church buildings - St Lawrence Church in Abbots Langley and the Church of the Ascension ('The Tin Church') in Bedmond, and we are part of the Deanery of Watford. We are also members of Churches Together in Abbots Langley, along with the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church (St Saviour's) and another Anglican Church (St Paul's, Langleybury). We work well together, including worshipping together, especially at Festival times, and we organise various social events together.
There has been a church in Abbots Langley for over 850 years and in Bedmond for 130 years. We try to combine a sense of tradition with witnessing to the dynamic presence of God in his world today, and serving the communities of which we are a part. We are an inclusive church and are pleased to offer hospitality to everyone.
The two separate communities of Abbots Langley and Bedmond both have a good feel about them. The total population of the parish is about 14,000: at one end it merges into Watford and at the other into open farmland. You don't have to be in the area long to realise that it is the goodwill and community spirit which makes both villages good places in which to live, work and worship.
We are a Fairtrade parish and try to buy and to use fairly-traded goods whenever we can, and to encourage parishioners to do the same.
Please pray for the parish: give thanks for all that it offers; remember the churches, schools, shops and businesses, and especially pray for the people.
Stay and browse this website and get the feel of the life of our churches, what we do and why we do it - and we hope that one day we shall find you here with us to share our worship and our life.
St Lawrence Church is open seven days a week, from 10.00 am to 5.15 pm on Monday to Saturday and between services on Sundays. Bedmond Church is unfortunately kept locked most of the time but you can arrange to meet someone there if you would like to go into it - please make contact via the contact us page.
HOW TO FIND US: the postcode for St Lawrence is WD5 0AS and the church hall is in the car park behind the church; the postcode for the Church of the Ascension is WD5 0RT, with a field for parking behind the church using the same entrance as that for the house, Beulah in Sergehill Lane.
If you are in Abbots Langley on a Tuesday morning, pop in to St Lawrence for a Fairtrade cup of coffee, tea or chocolate and a biscuit between 10.15 am and 12.15 pm - or if you are in Bedmond on the first Wednesday of the month, pop into Bedmond Church between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon - you will be made most welcome!
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Friday 7th March
9.30 am Holy Communion with Morning Prayer
10.00 am HAL Coffee Morning in the Henderson Hall
2.00 pm Women's World Day of Prayer Service in St Saviour's RC Church, The Crescent
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
6.15 pm Youth Choir practice
Saturday 8th March
4.00 pm Showing of the film 'The King's Speech' (prior to the CTAL Lent Groups) in the Baptist Church
Sunday 9th March - the First Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Second Sunday Service
12.45 for 1.00 pm Lent Lunch in the Vicarage
3.00 pm Baptism of Sadie Sonner
6.30 pm Evening Communion
Monday 10th March
9.30 am Morning Prayer
12.00 noon Churches Together Lent Group 'Finding a Voice' at the Baptist Church
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.30 pm Bell ringing practice
7.45 pm Churches Together lent Group 'Finding a Voice' at 187 Abbots Road
7.45 pm 'Healing the Scars of War' - a Christian Aid talk at the Baptist Church, Kings Langley
Tuesday 11th March
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee
1.30 pm Abbots Langley School visit St Lawrence
4.00 pm Flower Festival Planning Meeting
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.45 pm Dynamite (youth group) in the church hall
7.45 pm Churches Together Lent Course 'Finding a Voice' at 132 Abbots Road
Wednesday 12th March
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.00 am Bedmond Coffee Morning
10.15 am Holy Communion including Corporate Communion for the Mothers' Union
11.00 am Mothers' Union Lenten Meditation
3.30 pm Messy Church in the Methodist Church
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.45 pm Churches Together Lent Group 'Finding a Voice' at 18 Ash Close
Thursday 13th March
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.00 am Churches Together Lent Group 'Finding a Voice' at Stonehaven, Greenways
10.30 am Home Communion at Hanover Gardens
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
8.00 pm Housegroup at 105 Kindersley Way
Friday 14th March
9.30 am Holy Communion with Morning Prayer
10.00 am HAL Coffee in the Henderson Hall
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
6.15 pm Youth Choir
Saturday 15th March
9.30 am Diocesan Synod in Dunstable
Sunday 16th March - the Second Sunday of Lent
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Parish Communion with Seekers and Creche
11.00 am Family Service at Bedmond
12.45 pm Lent Lunch in the Vicarage
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
7.30 pm Abbots Langley Orchestra Concert
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