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About St Peter's Church, Church Langton, Leicestershire

St Peter's church is set in the village of Church Langton, in south Leicestershire, near to the town of Market Harborough. Worship is Church of England (Anglican). St Peter's is one of the churches forming the Benefice of the Langtons and Shangton in the Diocese of Leicester. St Peter's serves three villages, Church Langton, West Langton and East Langton and has friends and visitors from all over. We love to meet new people and visitors. Everyone is welcome! Contact us on info@churchlangton.org.uk and follow our story on www.churchlangton.org.uk

Christmas Appeal 2022

This year St Peter’s PCC is supporting SHARP, Shelter, Housing Advice Project for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, which has worked for homeless people in the area since 1974. The fundraising appeal is run by Christian churches across the denominations here in the city and two counties. See and read the letter below about this year’s appeal.

You can learn more and donate directly with https://leicestershelter.org.uk or you can donate with St Peter’s Church using the donate button below. We shall collate our donations and submit them together at the end of December.

Thank you!

Christmas Cards 2022

We are delighted to offer two Christmas card designs featuring St Peter’s church, both images taken on a gloriously snowy day last year by our super photographer parishioners Melissa Johnston and Dave Baxter. Thank you both for giving us permission to use your photos.

The front cover wording is ‘Christmas Greetings’ and the wording inside is ‘Wishing you Peace, Love and Joy’

The Christmas cards are on sale now – £1 each. Place your orders with Roz Folwell by email r.folwell@btinternet.com or phone on 01858 545160. Thanks to Roz for kindly organising these beautiful cards and overseeing the sales and production.

Thank you!

Dave Baxter (left) Melissa Johnston (right)

Services for December and Christmas 2022

The Langton Churches and Welham (see Christmas Day) – This listing also includes carol services and the Nativity/Crib service. All services on Sundays except where indicated. We look forward to welcoming you!

Advent and Carol Services

4th  December, Holy Communion 6pm  Thorpe Langton, Martin Hathaway

4th December, Family Evening Service 6pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman
5.30pm Refreshments

11th December, Holy Communion, 10.30am, Church Langton, Martin Hathaway

18th December, Carol Service, 6pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman

18th December, Carol Service, 6pm, Thorpe Langton, Philip Norwood         

21st December, Carol Service, 7.30pm, Church Langton,
(Wednesday) Martin Hathaway/Maxine Johnson

Christmas Worship

23rd December Nativity, 4.00pm, Tur Langton, Jonathan Dowman
(Friday)

24th December, Midnight Communion, 11.30pm, Tur Langton,
(Saturday) Martin Hathaway/Maxine Johnson

25th December, Holy Communion, 9.00am, Welham, Ian Gemmell

25th December, All Age Worship, 10.30am, Thorpe Langton, Maxine Johnson

New Year – 2023 – No services on January 1st – Happy New Year!

8th January, Holy Communion, 10.30am, Church Langton, Martin Hathaway


COVID GUIDANCE: All services are now live in church, observing the current UK Government guidance: Masks/face coverings are now optional, but we ask that if you have symptoms, please do not attend. Please check updates on Leicester Diocese’s website

St Peter’s woolly nativity