Churches of Lindfield Christmas services

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s churches of Lindfield Christmas services event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Christmas in our churches.

See also, All Saints Church, Lindfield United Reformed Church, Lindfield Evangelical Free Church, St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

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All Saints Church

www.allsaintslindfield.org/christmas
Email: allsaints@lindfield.info

Sunday 14th December
9.30am - Communion with children’s groups
4.30pm - Traditional Carol Service (1)
7pm - Traditional Carol Service (2)

Tuesday 16th December
10am - Tiger@Ten Christmas special (fortnightly group for over 65s)

Sunday 21st December
9.30am - All Saints Kids’ Nativity
The children can come dressed up as a shepherd, farmyard animal or angel as we retell the Christmas story in this enchanting, fun and slightly chaotic service
11.15am - Morning Worship
4.30pm - Big Band Carols (1)
7pm - Big Band Carols (2)

Christmas Eve 24th December
This year you will be able to book your Christingle tickets in advance - bookings open Monday 1st December at 7pm at allsaintslindfield.org/christingle
1pm - Christingle - this service is especially for families and those with additional needs
2pm - Christingle
3pm - Christingle
4pm - Christingle
5pm - Christingle
11.15pm - Midnight Communion

Christmas Day 25th December
8am - Christmas Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
10am - Christmas Celebration

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Lindfield United Reformed Church

Friday 12th December
4pm - Messy Christmas
The monthly Messy Church focuses on Christmas

Sunday 14th December
10am - Family Worship
5pm - Carols by Candlelight
A candlelight traditional service of lessons and carols

Thursday 18th December
7.30pm - Christmas Concert
Join us in the church or online for a light-hearted Christmas concert with music from the Perdido Players, and more as we celebrate together the meaning and message of Christmas

Sunday 21st December
10am - Family Worship - including the Lord’s Supper

Christmas Eve 24th December
4pm - Crib Service
A retelling of the first Christmas, appropriate to, and performed by, the very youngest. Suitable for all ages

Christmas Day 25th December
10am - Family Service - We celebrate the birth of Jesus

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Lindfield Evangelical Free Church

www.lefc.co.uk

Sunday 7th December
4pm - Why did God create the world?

Sunday 14th December
4pm - What went wrong?

Sunday 21st December
4pm - How did Jesus make things right again!
Traditional carols by candlelight for all ages. Festive refreshments to enjoy after.

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St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

www.sash.org.uk

Saturday 29th November
4.30pm - Lighting of the village Christmas tree with carols and mince pies

Monday 8th December
4pm - Christingle service followed by a Christmas party tea

Sunday 21st December
6pm - Carols by Candlelight followed by mulled wine and mince pies

Christmas Eve 24th December
4pm - Crib Service
11.15pm - Midnight Holy Communion

Christmas Day 25th December
10am - Christmas morning family Communion

Churches of Lindfield Easter services

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s churches of Lindfield Easter services event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Easter in our churches.

See also, All Saints Church, Lindfield United Reformed Church, Lindfield Evangelical Free Church, St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

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All Saints Church

www.allsaintslindfield.org/christmas
Email: allsaints@lindfield.info

Good Friday 18th April

10am – A service for all ages as we explore the meaning of Good Friday followed by an opportunity to make your own Easter garden and enjoy hot cross buns.

12noon – An hour’s service of music, prayer, Bible readings and short reflective talks around the Cross.

7pm – Good Friday Requiem Concert New Sussex Singers will be performing a concert of beautiful music for Good Friday including works by Stanford, Lotti and Duruflé. The evening will culminate in a performance of Matthew Coleridge’s ‘Requiem’, featured in the 2023 Classic FM Hall of Fame. The Requiem will be sung by a choir of over 50, as NSS are joined by singers from All Saints and the local community.

Tickets £15 or £5 for under 21s, available at www.allsaintslindfield.org/requiem

Easter Sunday 20th April

8am – Holy Communion

9.30am – Easter All Age Celebration with Communion followed by an egg hunt for the children in The Vicarage garden.

11.15am – Easter Communion Service

6pm – Lively Easter Celebration led by young people, also including communion.

Some of our services will be livestreamed: www.allsaintslindfield.org/live

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Lindfield United Reformed Church

Good Friday 18th April

10am – Remembering the Cross

Saturday 19th April

10am - 2pm – Easter Egg Hunt, starting from the church explore the village, and return for a reward.

Easter Day 20th April

10am – Celebrating the hope we know through the resurrection of Jesus. You are invited to bring cut flowers to help decorate the Easter Cross on the High Street before the service begins

Our services can be accessed online at www.lindfieldurc.org.uk

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Lindfield Evangelical Free Church

www.lefc.co.uk

Good Friday 18th April

10.30am – ‘Who Did Jesus Die For?’

Easter Sunday 20th April

10.30am – ‘How Can We Know?’

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St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

www.sash.org.uk

Palm Sunday 13th April

10am – Holy Communion – Meet on Scaynes Hill Common 10am, with service in church to start at 10.15am

Maundy Thursday 17th April

7pm – Parish Supper followed by Tenebrae Service

Good Friday 18th April

2pm – Hour at the Cross

Easter Day 20th April

6am – Sunrise Service followed by breakfast

10am – Family Communion followed by Easter Egg Hunt

St Augustine’s Church in Scaynes Hill buries a time capsule

By Jenny Walker

On Sunday 21st January, in a history-making moment, time capsules were placed under the new floor at St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill.

This came at the end of a special service led by the Rt Rev Ruth Bushyager, Bishop of Horsham. St Augustine’s Vicar, Rev Beverley Miles, told the congregation that the wonderful space under the floor was just too tempting to leave completely empty! The intention had been to put a single time capsule under the new floor, but the number of interesting items had increased and actually four containers were needed - two time capsules, a metal document box and a bottle tin.

Much thought had been given to suitable items to include which would paint a picture of the church and community at this particular time and many members of the church and the local community were involved in the process.

Members of the congregation and friends at the church coffee shop were asked to write ‘postcards to the future’ giving details of their everyday lives and experiences. Children from St Augustine’s CEP School contributed drawings of the school capturing one of the seasons and children from Great Walstead School wrote about ‘Life at Great Walstead in 2023’. Scaynes Hill Sustainability Group produced a leaflet describing some of their projects and events.

Copies of the parish magazine for 2023 included in the time capsule provide a spotlight on the church and the village. The Pew News for 2023, service booklets and flyers of services and events give information about church activities throughout the year. A leaflet and postcards describe the ‘Jubilee Tapestry’ and its making. St Augustine’s Eco Church status is reflected in information about the church’s ‘A Rocha Silver Award’ and environmental initiatives. Also included are items that the church produced during the pandemic - the Lockdown Cookbook, the Lockdown Calendar and a DVD of the Lockdown Readings of St Mark’s Gospel. Items providing general information about our life and times complete the archive along with a bottle of communion wine in a special bottle tin.

The group placing the time capsules under the floor consisted of Bishop Ruth, the churchwardens, Kevin Deal and Sheila Argent, and Jenny Walker, the church archivist. The Bishop spoke first of the timeless nature of the church which is a wonderful and precious thing. Looking around the church at the stained glass, memorials and tapestry the Bishop spoke of those who had gone before in this place - generation upon generation of our forebears had witnessed here and this can be felt in the stone of the walls.

The Diocese itself would be celebrating its 950th anniversary next year. Now we were thinking about people we do not know who, in 100 years’ time, will open the capsules and be fascinated by what they find. The Bishop then placed the bottle of communion wine under the floor and this was followed by the two time capsules, the document box having been placed in the space earlier. In her prayers Bishop Ruth looked back, speaking of God’s love and grace through the ages and today. She prayed a forward blessing on those who will go before us in the decades to come. Finally, she prayed that the witness of the church in Scaynes Hill would be enduring and that it would be faithful to its calling to be the light of Christ in this place.