Our vision: Growing in Christian faith and sharing it
Please see below the services at St Lawrence Church, Mereworth. For any questions please do contact us.
Also, feel free to visit our Facebook pages where we will also announce upcoming events and latest news: https://www.facebook.com/stlawrencemereworth
REFRESH is 45 minute service with modern worship songs, Bible reading, short sermon and prayers followed by tea and chat.
CW = Common Worship
BCP = Book of Common Prayer
‘Benefice’ is the collective term we use for all three of our parishes (Mereworth, Wateringbury and West Peckham).
September Services at St Lawrence, Mereworth
Sunday 1st September
10:00 Holy Communion BCP
17:00 – Refresh service
Wednesday 4th September
10:00 – Benefice Holy Communion (CW) followed by tea and chat
Sunday 8th September
08:30 – Morning Prayer BCP
17:00 – Refresh service
Wednesday 11th August
10:00 – Benefice Holy Communion (CW) followed by tea and chat
Sunday 15th September
10:00 Holy Communion (BCP)
17:00 – Refresh Service
Wednesday 18th September
10:00 – Benefice Holy Communion (CW) followed by tea and chat
Sunday 22nd September
08:30 – Morning Prayer (BCP)
17:00 – Refresh service
Wednesday 25th September
10:30 – “Last Wednesday of the month” coffee and chat
Sunday 29th September
10:00 – Holy Communion (CW) joint parish service at St John the Baptist, Wateringbury. No services at Mereworth church today
The Team at St Lawrence:
Local Licensed Minister – Betty Earl
Rector: Gary Townsend
Church Warden – Vacant
Administrator: Vacant
PCC Secretary: Vacant
Treasurer: Steve Card
For all other matters such as personal contact, Mereworth history and Mereworth Walking Group please contact : Robert Earl
WALKING GROUP
Walks take place on Tuesdays and alternate between mornings and afternoons. Everyone is welcome, including dogs, so if you would like to come along then we will be delighted to see you.
WALKING GROUP DATES 2024 (Further details of walks will be provided closer to the dates)
(4th Tuesday of the month)
The next walk will be on Tuesday 22nd October 2pm and the next after that will be on Tuesday 26th November 10am followed by lunch.
Tuesday 22nd October 2pm
Our October walk starts at 2pm on Tuesday 22nd September at The Poacher and Partridge Pub, Hartlake Road, Tudeley TN11 0PH. Plenty of parking is available in the pub car park. This a circular walk of 2.5 miles (4km) and is generally flat, so a nice easy stroll. Heading east we will visit the famous Tudeley Church and pass through the surrounding fields and orchards within the beautiful Kent countryside.
All Saints’ Tudeley is the only church in the world to have all its twelve windows decorated by the artist Marc Chagall born in Vitebsk/Vitsebsk, now in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. They are magnificent and a must to see on our walk. It also has very close links with Mereworth church in that Mereworth and Tudeley had the same vicar back in the early 19th century, check for the name Stapleton on the list of vicars. County Archives have a handwritten book of the sermons of Miles Stapleton from the 1820s, possibly the same words were preached in both parishes each Sunday. There’s also an ancient Fane memorial in the chancel which is the same family that built our church and castle.
