Harvest Service 2026

Harvest Service Sunday 11th October, 11am

You are warmly invited to St Peter’s traditional Harvest Service this Sunday in church on Sunday 11th October at 11am.

We will reflect on God’s creation and the gift of food from our farmers and producers after an immensely challenging growing season.

We’ll sing lovely harvest hymns and the church will look spectacular, adorned with flowers from a family wedding the day before. Join us afterwards for coffee, tea and biscuits.

We invite you to bring gifts of food to church to support The Food Bank at The Well in Kibworth. Find out more below.


St Peter’s Harvest Appeal: The Food Bank at the Well, Kibworth

This year, our donations will be going to The Well, at Kibworth. Not only does The Well have a Coffee shop and a second hand shop, selling clothes etc; but a vital part of their work is the food bank.  They deliver parcels of much-needed food to families in the area struggling to make ends meet in these challenging times.

How you can support and donate

Please donate tinned food, such as tomatoes, beans, custard dry ingredients such as pasta and rice, breakfast cereals, biscuits, tea, coffee and similar essential items.

The Harvest collection will be delivered to The Well next week. We will also be making a cash donation to The Well to help buy such things as toiletries etc, such things which are not so frequently offered.

Donating funds and online donations

You can make a money donation by using the cashless Collectin terminal inside church. Simply choose one of the options suggested or choose your own amount and follow the instructions. Do give time for the machine to process your donation.

Online donations

Alternatively, you can make a secure donation online with our Give a Little campaign.

Use the button link below or point your camera at the QR code. The image of the donation screen will open in a separate tab. Simply choose the amount and follow the onscreen instructions.

To learn more about The Well, see their website here

Creation Tide - Photo of sunflowers - Image shows a lovely pot of sunflowers with watering can at the side. Copyright protected.
Sunflowers grown by school pupils

Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home

Henry Alford

Ride and Stride at St Peter’s

Saturday 12th September 2026

Ride + Stride is the single largest source of income for many Historic Churches Trusts enabling them to make Grants to places of Christian worship. Taking place on the second Saturday of September the funds raised can be split between the nominated Trust and the participants chosen church or chapel.

As ever Ride+Stride is a wonderful way to enjoy getting out and about safely as well as raising much-needed funds to support Grant applications from churches and chapels across the county. 

St Peter’s is delighted to be taking part again this year – so look forward to welcoming you on foot, bike or hoof! If you are a bicycle or horse rider or a walker (Shanks’s pony?!), you would be most welcome to join this lovely event, which benefits so many churches locally and around the country.

Our fellow churches, St Andrew’s at Tur Langton and St Leonard’s at Thorpe Langton are also taking part so you can enjoy all three.

Discover all the churches registered and plan your route for the day. Visit the Leicestershire section of the Churches Trust website here, to download the full list throughout the county.

 https://www.lhct.org.uk/ride-and-stride-leicestershire

Click on the picture or one of the buttons below to find out more and download a sponsorship form.

Notes for visitors to St Peter’s Church Langton

Access

Important information – Please note! There are no toilet facilities inside church, but you can sign the register in the porch. If you have a water bottle, water is available from the servery inside at the back, please help yourself.

Directions

Find us just off the B6047 Market Harborough to Melton Road, 3 miles from Kibworth, 6 miles from Market Harborough. Postcode for satellite navigation systems LE16 7SZ – What three word link: https://w3w.co/cubed.thinkers.upholds

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Worship for Launde Deanery Minster Community

St Peter’s and the Langtons churches are part of the wider Launde Deanery Minster Community, which serves all the villages in south east Leicestershire. Revd Crystal McAllister, Minster Community Oversight Minister with the team look after the services.

The Minster Community offers various activities and gatherings too – Find out what’s on this month on our What’s On page.

Zoom Services – Every Week

All the details are found here and you can worship even if you aren’t able to join us in person. There is a weekly service on Saturday live from Gaulby and Sunday worship too. Click the link below for the details and then links from there for Sunday and Saturday worship.

Launde Minster Community Newsletter

We are delighted to present our newsletter full of information about our worship community in south Leicestershire. The link below takes you to the page where all the newsletters are found, and from there you can download each one individually. The most recent edition is shown at the top of the list and dated. Click on the download button to read.

Launde Deanery Header, is a wide image with all the churches and parishes within the Launde Deanery in Leicestershire
Launde Deanery