Worship for December 2024

Services for Advent and Christmas

Next weekend sees the first Sunday of Advent when Christians anticipate and remember the birth of Jesus. Advent is a time of quiet contemplation and prayer for four weeks before the festival of Christmas itself. It has its own hymns and carols such as O Come Emanuel, which reflect this beautiful time. Christmas, at the end of December is the most joyous season as we all know and love, with feast and song as the news of Jesus’s birth brings hope and light!

This December, we are delighted to offer worship and activities to reflect both Advent and Christmas in all our villages in the Langtons and Welham Benefices.

Simple list of services for Langton and Shangton and Welham Benefices for Advent and Christmas 2024 - Black text on white background
Advent and Christmas Services for Langton and Shangton and Welham Benefices for December 2024

We have produced a Christmas card with all the details. The card will be delivered to the parishioners of St Peter’s Church this weekend, but for friends further afield, there is a PDF to download below, with all the services listed, along with a Christmas message from our Lay Incumbent, Maxine Johnson.

We are delighted that this year’s card features a remarkable photograph of the church by Melissa Johnston, taken earlier this year with an unprecedented appearance in the night sky of the Aurora Borealis. Thank you Melissa for allowing us to use your lovely image.

Photograph of St Peter's church at night with the colours of the Aurora Borealis in the sky above. The building looks orange with the subtle greens and pinks in the sky behind
St Peter’s Church Aurora Sky by Melissa Johnston
Christmas message for Langton and Shangton and Welham Benefices for Advent and Christmas 2024 - Black text on white background
Christmas message 2024

We hope you can join us for some of the services but also wish our friends and followers here who live further away, a very peaceful Advent season and a joyful Christmas when it comes. Thank you 🙏

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day are as important this year as ever, as we remember everyone who has sacrificed so much in continued difficult times. War rages in Ukraine and Gaza. Now, as ever, we must continue to pray for peace.

Remembrance Sunday Service for the Langton Villages

Remembrance Service: Sunday 10th November, 10.30am,
St Peter’s Church, Church Langton

The service will take place in St Peter’s Church in Church Langton, starting at 10.30am and lasts for about an hour. The service will be lead by Rev Martin Hathaway and Lay Incubment, Maxine Johnson, with contributions from our church members from Tur and Thorpe Langton.

The collection taken at the service in St Peter’s will support Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.

Act of Remembrance and Two-Minute Silence: 11am

The Act of Remembrance and two-minute silence at 11am take place inside the church as part of the Remembrance Service, when the names of our local war dead are read and the wreaths for the Langton villages are blessed.

Laying of wreaths at the War Memorial: 11:45 – 12noon

After the service in church, the congregation will process from the church to the village green where where the wreath for Church Langton will be laid on the War Memorial.

The wreaths from our sister villages will be returned and laid at their village memorials separately.

We hope you can join us for the service in St Peter’s and the laying of the wreath at the village green.

Evensong at Tur Langton

The Sunday Evensong service at Tur Langton will have the theme of Remembrance. Join Rev Jonathan at St Andrews, Tur Langton Sunday, 10th November at 4.30pm.


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

— John Maxwell Edmonds

St Peter's Church porch, Remembrance flowers
St Peter’s Church porch, Remembrance flowers

All Souls Service 2024

St Peter’s Church, Church Langton, Sunday 3rd November 3.00pm

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.”

Prayer for all souls day

You are warmly invited to join us in a simple service of reflection and remembrance of those we have loved and lost on All Souls day.

This short service of All Souls in St. Peter’s Church on Sunday 3rd November 3.00pm. This service will be taken by Revd Martin Hathaway. This service is to remember departed loved ones whether many years ago or recent.

During the service, the names of all those who have been put forward will be read out and there will be an opportunity to light a candle in memory of your family member or friend. If you want a member of your family or close friend to be remembered please email Maxine Johnson with the details, or if you live locally, drop a note through her door.

This service is followed by light refreshments of tea and cake


Email here: clergy@churchlangton.org.uk

Thank you


Photograph of the altar and candles for St Peter's All Souls service
View to the altar and candles for St Peter’s All Souls service