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Photos, paintings, drawings, sculpture – all inspired by St Peter’s Church and its Churchyard

A beautiful start to Christmas

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St Peter’s Carol Service

Thanks to everyone who came to the Carol Service last night. So lovely to see so many of you!

The flower team have surpassed themselves and the Nativities (we have two!)! are both out on display.

The knitted version and traditional ceramic figures are in their stables but you’ll notice that baby Jesus hasn’t arrived just yet and the Wise Men are waiting in the wings.

Woolly Nativity
The Traditional Nativity


Thank you to Rev Martin and Maxine Johnson for devising a lovely service of familiar Bible readings, more recent reflections and prayers.

So many favourite carols highlighted the words and thanks as always to Keith Folwell for playing the piano.

Thanks to all the readers, and the team, for mince pies, mulled wine and tea and coffee to finish.

It was lovely to see everyone and our thanks go to everyone who generously donated to our Christmas Appeal supporting the Al Shurooq School in Bethlehem. (See our post yesterday).

The appeal runs in church and online over Christmas until 5th January, so we’ll keep you posted with the amount raised.

Donate here

Finally some more photos of the decorations in church.

Remembrance Sunday: An update from Sunday

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The annual service of Remembrance was held on Remembrance Sunday with 59 people attending. After the service in church, wreaths were laid at the war memorial.

Service led by Rev Martin Hathaway and Maxine Johnson, with reading by Tony Spencer. The organ played beautifully by Boris with the Last Post and Reveille played live for us by Jonathan Lee.

The collection raised £225 which has been sent to the Market Harborough branch of the Royal British Legion. Thank you to all who attended and donated and huge thanks to our wonderful flower arrangers who brought the church to life with their poignant flower arrangements.

Enjoy the photographs of the church taken by Maxine Dodd.

“When you go home, tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”

— John Maxwell Edmonds

Lest We Forget

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Remembrance Sunday 2024

Today, we gathered at St Peter’s church and the War Memorial to remember the fallen from our villages from the First World War and to reflect upon the loss of precious lives in all conflicts before and since. The current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel continue relentlessly with no end in sight.

It was a grey and somewhat bleak day, after a spell of almost two weeks with very little sunshine; somehow appropriate for very bleak times in the wider world.

Our incredible flower arranging team transformed the church with a variety of arrangements. Large solemn sentinels by the altar contrasted with tiny posies of poppies which caught the eye brightening hidden corners.

While we sang and prayed; listened to readings, held silence for the Last Post and Reveille and listened to the names of our lost young men, the little poppies captured my thoughts.

Poppies are the epitome of calm after chaos, bringing beauty after unimaginable ugliness.. Tender fragility following brutal cruelty.

The tiny field poppy symbolises hope as it grows from disturbed ground. Its seeds can lie dormant for hundreds of years until the earth turns… but its blood red petals remind us of the horror and sacrifice. And a field of little poppies remind us of the millions who died.

The unbearable transformed but never forgotten.

All that in one tiny wild flower?

Lest we forget…