Fundraising 2024

Cream Teas 2024

The Cream Teas were held in St. Peter’s, Church Langton during July and August and raised £1,040 for improvements to the church.

We are very pleased to have had some new volunteers to help and the increasing numbers who came along to sample the cakes and scones. Thank you to all those who helped serve, those who made the delicious cakes and those who came along to have a Cream Tea.

A Community Summer Treat

St Peter’s is a community church in the truest sense of the word. A Sunday afternoon Cream Teas offer homemade cakes and scones made by the local community, along with tea and coffee served by local volunteers and worshipers. Everyone involved gives their time freely to this longstanding community summer treat. We hope to see you next year.

A time of community and communing

Enjoying a Cream Tea - The photo shows three lovely ladies enjoying a Cream Tea inside St Peter's Church. The three are sitting round a table with tea and scones and all smiling most happily
Enjoying a Cream Tea together

Visitors to Cream Teas have a lovely opportunity to spend time together; to chat, catch up and enjoy the unique peace the church space offers. There is a lovely atmosphere as people enjoy each other’s company in this special place. 

Helping to fund a bright future

St Peter’s has a rich and long history, dating back over 800 years. However, it is a church that lives and works very much in the present, with a lively association with its parish villages and the local school.

Ride & Stride 2024

Leicestershire Historic Trust’s major annual fund-raising activity, Ride + Stride, took place this year on Saturday 14th September. Half the money raised from sponsorship goes to the church. St. Peter’s raised. We had 10 visitors and raised £156. A big thank you to congregation member Chris Beere who stayed all day to register the visitors.

Ride and Stride fundraising event 10th September 2022
Ride and Stride

This is a lovely family event that takes place every year. Families can walk or cycle to all our local churches to get their sponsorship forms signed and raise money for their village church. We hope to see more people joining in next year.

Looking ahead to 2025

Together, we aim to keep the church viable to serve its community for many more years by developing the building and adopting processes that better serve the wider environment. We are a newly established Eco Church looking to improve the carbon footprint of the building. Read all about it here. However, we appreciate that times are hard for many people just now; money and time are more precious than ever.

Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone who gives their time and money to support the building itself and also the charities and causes St Peter’s also supports.

Happy New Year!



Worship for New Year 2025

We look forward to the next of the church winter seasons, called Epiphany, which follows Christmas. A little background to the seasons and festivals follows below the worship pattern.

Services at St Peter’s Church Langton, St Andrew’s Tur Langton and St Leonard’s, Thorpe Langton

JANUARY AND FEBRUARY SERVICES

JANUARY
5th No Service
12th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway
12th 4.30pm Tur Langton Family Service Jonathan Dowman
19th 10.30am Tur Langton All Age Worship Maxine Johnson
26th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway

FEBRUARY
2nd 6.00pm Thorpe Langton Holy Communion, Candlemas Martin Hathaway
9th 4.30pm Tur Langton Family Service, Jonathan Dowman
9th 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway
16th 10.30am Tur Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway
23rd 10.30am Church Langton Holy Communion, Martin Hathaway

We hope you can join us for these services but also wish our friends and followers here who live further away, a very peaceful, prosperous and healthy 2025.


The Church Winter Seasons and Festivals

Background INFORMATION

Christmas follows Advent and is the season that begins on December 25th

Twelfth Days The 12 days between Christmas Day and January 5th, also known as Epiphany Eve. Shakespeare’s play, ‘Twelfth Night Or What You Will’ celebrates this special evening and last day of Christmas. Shakespeare wrote the play as a Twelfth Night entertainment around 1601–1602.

Epiphany The feast of Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th, and is also known as “Three Kings’ Day”. Many countries, including Spain, Italy and Mexico, celebrate the giving of Christmas gifts on King’s Day, (El Día de los Reyes) in recognition of the time when the Wise Men traveled from the East and brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.

Woolly Nativity of St Peter's Church, shows the knitted figures of the Christmas story against a painted backdrop with the animals in the stable and views beyond to Bethlehem and the Star of the East
Woolly Nativity of St Peter’s Church

Our Nativity scene in St Peter’s see us bring the Wise Men inside the stable on that day. Until then, they are outside, traveling and following the Star.

The season of Epiphany continues with the Sundays of Epiphany, and ends with the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) on 2nd February.

Candlemas is traditionally the 40th day of (and the conclusion of) the Christmas/Epiphany season. Candlemas is celebrated on 2 February to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary (after childbirth, according to Jewish law) and the presentation of Christ in the Temple. Candles are traditionally blessed at this festival, hence the name.

After these seasons, the church changes to Ordinary Time, until the season of Lent.

Thank you 🙏

A beautiful start to Christmas

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.

Finally some more photos of the decorations in church.