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 - 1st December (Advent Sunday); 8th December (Advent 2).
You may be wanting to know about our Christmas services - the most popular ones are listed below; for further details of all our services over the festive period please click here:
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.
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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Monday 9th December
9.30 am Morning Prayer
3.30 pm Pastoral Assistants' meeting
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.30 pm Bellringing practice
7.30 pm Mothers' Union Party at 26 Follett Drive
Tuesday 10th December
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.15 am to 12.15 pm Tuesday Coffee
1.45 pm Abbots Langley School (Year 1) Christingle Service in St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
Wednesday 11th December
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.15 am Holy Communion including Corporate Communion for the Mothers' Union
11.00 am Mothers' Union Advent Meditation
1.30 pm Bedmond School Nativity
3.30 pm Messy Christmas at the Methodist Church
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
6.30 pm Carol Singing and Lighting the Tree at Bedmond
Thursday 12th December
8.15 am Prayers for the parish and local community
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.30 am Home Communion at Hanover Gardens
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
7.00 pm Abbots Langley School Concert in St Lawrence
7.30 pm Housegroup at 6 Kindersley Way
Friday 13th December
9.30 am Morning Prayer with Holy Communion
10.00 amd HAL Coffee Morning in the Henderson Hall
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
6.15 pm Youth Choir
Saturday 14th December
11.30 am Churches Together (CTAL) Carol Singing outside the Methodist Church
12.00 noon to 2.00 pm CTAL Lunch in aid of CRISIS at the Methodist Church
Sunday 15th December - the Third Sunday of Advent
8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am Parish Communion with Seekers and Creche
12.30 pm Sunday Lunch Club Christmas Lunch
12.30 pm Choir Lunch at Hunters
4.00 pm Bedmond Carol Service in the Tin Church
6.30 pm Evening Prayer
Monday 16th December
9.30 am Morning Prayer
10.30 am Pumpkins Christmas Service in St Lawrence
12.00 noon Tiny Tots Christmas service and picnic in St Lawrence
2.00 pm Breakspeare School Carol Concert at the School
5.15 pm Evening Prayer
6.00 pm Carols at Margaret House
7.45 pm Bell ringing practice
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