About Us
We have two church buildings - St Lawrence Church in Abbots Langley and the Church of the Ascension ('The Tin Church') in Bedmond, and we are part of the Deanery of Watford, within the Diocese of St Albans. We are also members of Churches Together in Abbots Langley, along with the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church (St Saviour's) and another Anglican Church (St Paul's, Langleybury). We work well together, including worshipping together, especially at Festival times, and we organise various social events together.
There has been a church in Abbots Langley for over 850 years and in Bedmond for 130 years. We try to combine a sense of tradition with witnessing to the dynamic presence of God in his world today, and serving the communities of which we are a part. We are an inclusive church and are pleased to offer hospitality to everyone.
The two separate communities of Abbots Langley and Bedmond both have a good feel about them. The total population of the parish is about 14,000: at one end it merges into Watford and at the other into open farmland. You don't have to be in the area long to realise that it is the goodwill and community spirit which makes both villages good places in which to live, work and worship.
We are a Fairtrade parish and try to buy and to use fairly-traded goods whenever we can, and to encourage parishioners to do the same.
Stay and browse this website and get the feel of the life of our churches, what we do and why we do it - and we hope that one day we shall find you here with us to share our worship and our life.
The Report and Accounts for 2018 can be found here.
Choose products with this Mark
www.fairtrade.org.uk
The coming week...
Weekly Leaflet
Monday 19th August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
7.30 pm Ringers' practice in St Lawrence tower
Tuesday 20th August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
Wednesday 21st August
Church Office will be closed today
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.30 am Home Communion at Abbeyfield
11.15 am Quiet Reflection in St Lawrence
12.00 noon Holy Communion in St Lawrence followed by light lunch in the Breakspear Room
Friday 23rd August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.00 am Craft Morning in the Tin Church
10.00 am AHAL Coffee in the Henderson Hub, Abbots Langley High Street
1.20 pm Funeral for Jennifer Evans at the Crematorium
2.00 pm Ascension Acorns in the Tin Church
2.00 pm Craft and Conversation in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
Sunday 25th August 2019 - the Tenth Sunday after Trinity
8.00 am Holy Communion in St Lawrence
9.30 am Parish Communion with Seekers and Creche in St Lawrence
Sorry, no 11.15 am at Bedmond
6.30 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Monday 26th August
Bank Holiday
The Church will be open between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm
Tuesday 27th August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
12.15 pm Funeral for Madeline Green in St Lawrence followed by burial at North Watford Cemetery
2.00 pm Burial of Ashes of Margaret Williams in the churchyard
Wednesday 28th August
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.30 am Carers Network meets in the Methodist hall
11.15 am Quiet Reflection in St Lawrence
12.00 noon Holy Communion in St Lawrence followed by light lunch in the Breakspear Room