Crib Festival

for 6 hours, 30 mins
St Mary's, Henlow
Church Road Henlow, SG16 6AN, United Kingdom

A celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ through a display of cribs throughout the Church. The festival spans Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December.

If you wish to contribute a crib for display at the festival - whether it is one that you have made, bought or inherited - please bring them to St Mary's on Friday 5th December, in between 10 am and 4 pm.

To notify us in advance, please email:
[email protected]

or use the 'Get in touch' feature on this site.

St Mary's, Henlow

Welcome to St Mary's Church, in the parish of Henlow in Bedfordshire.

St. Mary's, Henlow, is a friendly village church with a range of services and activities.  Our normal pattern of worship consists of:

+ Eucharistic morning services on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month;

+ Less formal Morning Worship on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month;

+ Morning Prayer, celebrated over Zoom, each Tuesday morning, and

+ Compline, celebrated over Zoom, each Thursday evening.

All Sunday services are followed by refreshments served in the church. 

Children are welcome to all our services, and there are baby-changing facilities and an upper room from which the service can be both observed and heard discretely.   

Other activities include a choir and bell ringing, prayer groups, coffee mornings and tending the beautiful and extensive churchyard.

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Get in touch

The Revd Shaun Speller

The Vicarage
65 Church Street
Langford
Bedfordshire

SG18 9QT
Vicar
01462700248

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Crib Festival

for 6 hours, 30 mins
St Mary's, Henlow
Church Road Henlow, SG16 6AN, United Kingdom

A celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ through a display of cribs throughout the Church. The festival spans Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December.

If you wish to contribute a crib for display at the festival - whether it is one that you have made, bought or inherited - please bring them to St Mary's on Friday 5th December, in between 10 am and 4 pm.

To notify us in advance, please email:
[email protected]

or use the 'Get in touch' feature on this site.

Safeguarding

Our parish of Henlow is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults from harm. We follow the House of Bishops guidance and policies and have our own Parish Safeguarding Officer (PSO). Our Diocese of St.Albans’s safeguarding pages contain vital links and information including contacts for the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor who advises our PSO. If you are concerned that a child or adult has been harmed or may be at risk of harm please contact the PSO (Carol Donnelly, tel: 01462 7811960) or the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor (Jeremy Hirst, Tel: 01727 818107, Email: [email protected]). If you have immediate concerns about the safety of someone, please contact the police and your local authority’s children or adult social care services.