Endings and Beginnings
Dear Friends and Neighbours …
I can’t believe I’m already writing a magazine letter for December … where has the year gone? I remember people telling me when I was young that time went faster the older you get, so perhaps that’s true.… Read the whole story
Face to Face (Being together)
Perhaps in our modern world, communication has never been so efficient and immediate. We have the opportunity to communicate using the telephone, emails, text, etc, which means we can message people almost instantaneously anywhere in the world!… Read the whole story
Hepworth Angels
We are singing again with great gusto every Monday at 19.30 in the Church.
No auditions – just come and sing!
All abilities welcome
Letter from Rev Bladen – April 2021
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
I don’t know about you, but I find mazes fascinating. Particularly those mazes where you begin in daylight and then walk through the paths in semi darkness until you emerge in the centre back into the daylight.… Read the whole story
A Letter from Rev Bladen for March
Dear Friends and Neighbours,
I recently read a story about some Missionaries in Africa who hired some local villagers as porters to carry some supplies.… Read the whole story
March 2021 Services in the Benefice
| Date | Church | Time | Service |
| Sunday 14th March Mothering Sunday | Coney Weston | 9.30am | Holy Communion |
| Hinderclay | 9.30 am | Village Service | |
| Hopton | 10.00am | All Age | |
| Stanton | 11.00am | Family Communion | |
| Sunday 21st March | Barningham | 11.00am | Holy Communion |
| Hinderclay | 9.30am | Holy Communion | |
| Sunday 28th March Palm Sunday | Barningham | 11.00am | Village Service |
| Hopton | 10.00am | Holy Communion | |
| Stanton | 10.30am | Palm Sunday Celebration with Methodist Church | |
Maundy Thursday 1st April | Barningham | 7pm | |
Good Friday 2nd April | Bike Ride Starting at Barningham Church | 9.30am | |
Hinderclay | 2.30pm | ||
| Easter Sunday 4th April | Hepworth | 9.30am | Family Communion |
| Market Weston | 11.00am | Family Communion | |
| Stanton | 11.00am | Family Communion | |
| Thelnetham | 9.30am | Family Communion |
Services for Holy Week and Easter
Maundy Thursday 1st April
Evening Service 7.00pm Barningham Church
Good Friday 2nd April
Benefice Bike Ride 9.30am… Starting at Barningham Church
Good Friday Service 2.30pm Hinderclay Church
Easter Sunday 4th April
Family Services of Holy Communion at:
9.30am Hepworth
9.30am Thelnetham
11:00am Market Weston
11:00am Stanton… Read the whole story
Hepworth Village Church Clock.
An appreciation by John Carpenter.
My wife and I moved to Hepworth from Duxford near Cambridge just before Christmas in 2012.… Read the whole story
Letter from Rev Bladen
Happy New Year! Hopefully it’s not too late to wish you a Happy New Year.
But as I wish you a ‘Happy New Year’ my mind jumps to that quote from John Cleese (playing Basil Fawlty) in one of his episodes of Fawlty Towers, “Oh, happy.… Read the whole story
Act of Remembrance at Hepworth Church Memorial on Sunday 8th November 2020
Due to the restrictions of the present lock down, Hepworth Church is presently closed and the usual service of Remembrance could not be held in the same way this year.… Read the whole story
REMINDER – Carol Service Booking Required!
A carol service is being held at St Peters on Sunday at 1800, but if you want to attend, you MUST book in advance. Due to social distancing there will only be room for around 30 people in the church.… Read the whole story
Our Christmas Services will be different this year!
If you would like to attend any of our services across December, please would you book in with the churchwarden for your church (details below).… Read the whole story
Food Banks
Thank you so much for the huge generosity that has been shown in the amount of food being donated to the food bank collection points in Stanton and Hopton church porches and in Barningham shop during the last few weeks and months. … Read the whole story
Churches Begin Re-opening
As I’m sure you will be aware by now, the government has said that we may open our church buildings for individual private prayer.… Read the whole story
A letter from the Rector Rev Cathy Bladen – May 2020
Dear Friends & Neighbours,
Hi … How are you doing in this strange time that we’re living through?
For each of us our experience of this time is different. For… Read the whole story
Carol Service
Come and join us at St Peter’s Church, Hepworth
For our Christmas Carol Concert
22nd December at 3pm
Followed by Mulled Wine, (or orange), Mince Pies and Savouries
All Welcome… Read the whole story
Harvest Service
Food donations will be blessed and given to the foodbank.… Read the whole story
Letter from Reverend Barclay
June 2019
Growth and transformation in Spring
As I write this, Spring-time is in full swing! And I never cease to have a tremendous sense of pleasure and privilege, living and working in Suffolk at this time of the year; all around us is an increasing volume, variety and vitality of new life- in the hedgerows and fields, and on the trees and in our wonderful sky which changes so beautifully in the east anglian light during the morning, noon and evening.… Read the whole story