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.
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The coming week...
Weekly Leaflet
Monday 15th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
2.15 pm Tiny Tots in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.30 pm Ringing practice in St Lawrence tower
Tuesday 16th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.00 pm Youth Club meets in the church hall
8.00 pm Mothers' Union meets in the Breakspear Room
8.00 pm Property Committee meets in the back office
Wednesday 17th July
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
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.45 pm Choir practice in St Lawrence
Thursday 18th July
8.15 am Early Prayer in St Lawrence
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Friday 19th July
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
1.00 pm Ascension Acorns in the Tin Church
2.00 pm Craft & Conversation in the Breakspear Room
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.15 pm Wedding rehearsal in St Lawrence
Saturday 20th July - the Fifth Sunday after Trinity
2.30 pm Christening for Rylie Curtis and Jaxson Hopkins
Sunday 21st July
8.00 am Holy Communion in St Lawrence
9.30 am Parish Communion (the first celebration for the Revd Vanesa Kerswill) with Seekers and Creche in St Lawrence
NO 11.15 am at Bedmond
12.15 pm Christening for Lyla Dear in St Lawrence
12.30 pm Sunday Lunch Club in the church hall
2.00 pm Wedding of Tom Guthrie and Hayley Hancock in St Lawrence
6.30 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.30 pm Pilgrim Course on 'The Creeds' in the Tin Church
Monday 22nd July
9.30 am Morning Prayer at St Lawrence
10.15 am Burial of Ashes for Michael Smith in the Garden of Remembrance
11.00 am Funeral for Jackson Leifer at North Watford Cemetery
1.15 pm Funeral for Tom Howie in St Lawrence followed by cremation
2.15 pm Tiny Tots in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
8.00 pm MAP Steering Group in the Breaksper Room, St Lawrence
Tuesday 23rd July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.15 am Tuesday Coffee in the Breakspear Room, St Lawrence
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
Wednesday 24th July
9.30 am Morning Prayer in St Lawrence
10.40 am Funeral for Sue Hall in the Tin Church followed by cremation
11.15 am Quiet Reflection in St Lawrence
12.00 noon Holy Communion in St Lawrence
1.15 pm Funeral for Phyllis Ridgeway in St Lawrence followed by Cremation
5.15 pm Evening Prayer in St Lawrence
7.45 pm Choir practice in St Lawrence