Community Carol Singing in the Hale Chapels’ Garden

Join local residents and the Mayor of Farnham for Community Carol Singing in the new Hale Chapels’ Garden on Wednesday, December 20th at 7pm. This will be followed by hot chocolate and mince pies at St Mark’s, just across the road.

The Hale Chapels’ Garden is on the site of two former chapels of rest for the Hale Cemetery. These had fallen into disrepair and the garden, in the centre of the front part of the cemetery, has maintained many of the chapels’ original features and has been planted with trees and plants which appear in the Bible. 

Everyone is welcome.

Christmas Angels at St Mark’s

Angels have flown into St Mark’s to declare the glad tidings of great joy at the heart of Christmas – that God is here among us.

The angels were invited in by our Thursday Coffee and Art at St Mark’s group. The group meets on the first and third Thursday of the month at 10.30am in the church community centre.

Each month there is a different theme and people of all ages and all artistic abilities (or none) are welcome. Tea, coffee and cake are all served.

The angels will be there for all our Christmas services. At St Mark’s these are:

Friday, December 8th, 6pm: Carol Service.
Sunday, December 10th, 11am: Christingle.
Thursday, December 21st, 6pm: The Longest Night; When Christmas Hurts.
Christmas Eve, 5pm: Crib Service.
Christmas Day, 11am: Christmas Day Communion for all ages.

There will be a special Kitty Milroy Matins at St Mark’s on New Year’s Eve at 11am.

Click on the links for information about other Carol, Crib and Christmas Day services.

To find out more about Coffee and Art at St Mark’s, contact Lesley Shatwell.

A Kitty Milroy Matins

On New Year’s Eve, join us at St Mark’s at 11am for a Kitty Milroy Matins – a service of morning prayer which Kitty Milroy would have recognised.

Kitty Milroy, the artist who painted the murals in St Mark’s, lived between November 8th, 1885 and November 8th, 1966, and worked on the murals between 1911 and 1920. As a regular churchgoer, she would have been familiar with Matins, or Morning Prayer as it is now usually known. It is a service without communion and is a mixture of prayers, psalms and readings.

The service will include a mix of old and modern language and will include the Benedicite, a hymn of praise on which the murals are based.

Everyone is welcome.

The Longest Night

When Christmas hurts
Thursday, December 21st, 6pm, St Mark’s Church.

The season of goodwill isn’t good for everyone. Sometimes it is a struggle, particularly perhaps if we have lost someone, or if it brings back bad memories. Sometimes we are lonely or living in circumstances that mean that it feels hard to celebrate. Sometimes we just want a break from the relentless commercialisation and pressure of Christmas.

Every year we hold a quiet, reflective service for anyone who finds Christmas hard, or just wants to stop for a moment and rest. This year it is on Thursday, December 21st, at 6pm, at St Mark’s Church. All welcome.

Serving the Villages North of Farnham: Badshot Lea, Hale, Heath End & Weybourne