An informal Cafe for the community held in the church hall most Tuesdays and Thursdays 10.30 - 12.30pm

Do join us for great company and great coffee and other refreshments. More information on the cafes on the church website or contact us [use the contact page] to check it will be running.

We also do repairs. These include clothes and soft furnishings - both repairs and simple alterations. Plus repairs of mechanical and electrical items. We are happy to look at anything you can easily carry to the cafe - no guarantee but we will try to fix it!

Join us on Mothering Sunday for a short informal service to celebrate the gift of motherhood. The refreshments afterwards will continue the celebration with cakes, coffee, tea, squash available for everyone.

Hear Here Clinic
There is a Hear Here Clinic on the third Thursday of the month from 11am to 12.30pm in the church room.
We can help with batteries, tubes & maintenance of NHS hearing aids. These are supplied by the NHS and available for those with NHS hearing aids.

This happens at the same time as our Church Cafe so refreshments are available.

No appointments needed.

Donations made during the Cafes in December will go to St Mungo's

A service of Holy Communion using the Iona liturgy. We use a combination of traditional and more modern songs.

Sunday March 29th will be our Palm Sunday service at the usual time of 10am in Holmbury church. This will be a service with Holy Communion.
The 5th Sunday is usually a benefice service at one of the 4 churches in the benefice. But this month, March, each of the churches will hold their own service as it is Palm Sunday & the start of Holy week.
There will be a benefice service the Sunday after Easter Sunday.

On the morning of Tuesday of Holy week there will be a service in Holmbury church at 10.30am. This will give time to reflect on the events of Holy week in preparation for Easter Sunday. The service will be words and music introduced by the Rector. Join us afterwards in the Church cafe for a lovely cup of coffee or tea.

This service, the Institution of the Lord's Supper, will be a Benefice service at Christ church, Coldharbour. The service is based around the Last Supper when Jesus is with his disciples.

A short service of the word with a chance to reflect on the events of Good Friday.
This is followed by a walk from Holmbury church to Abinger Church carrying part of the cross. Or you can drive to Abinger, aim to get there around 12noon.
At 12noon there will be refreshments for all at the Abinger church, a benefice event, followed by a short service, at St James' Church, starting at 1pm.
Please join us and if possible let Sally, the Abinger church administrator, know so they can cater appropriately at [email protected] or call 01306 737160. Thank you .

After the Good Friday service at St Mary's Holmbury, you can join the walk from Holmbury church, over the hills, to St James' church, Abinger. Each of the benefice churches will carry part of the cross on this walk. This is a short walk of about 1.5 miles over footpaths that will be up and down some hills lasting 30-45 minutes. Please feel free to drive to St James' is you are unable to walk there.
Afterwards there will be a light lunch at St James' church starting at 12noon.
At 1pm there will be a short service with all the churches from the benefice at St James's.
Please join us and if possible, let Sally, the church administrator, know so they can cater appropriately at [email protected] or call 01306 737160. Thank you
There is also a short service at 11am in Holmbury church, BEFORE the walk that leaves Holmbury at 11.30am for Abinger church.

A light lunch will be served at Abinger church at 12noon on Good Friday for those attending the service at 1pm and the walkers from the Benefice churches [see the Good Friday service at Holmbury and walk from Holmbury for more details].
Please join us and, if possible, let Sally, the Abinger church administrator, know so they can cater appropriately at [email protected] or call 01306 737160. Thank you.

A chance for the benefice to gather together on Good Friday to reflect on the events of that day long ago. Visitors to the area are welcome to join us. the service is in Abinger church.
There is a light lunch serviced just before this, please join us for the lunc and service. If possible, please let Abinger know if you would like lunch: you can contact Sally, the church administrator, at [email protected] or call 01306 737160. Thank you

Celebrate the Resurrection at the top of Holmbury Hill, at 6.29am, as the sun rises above Leith Hill, with a reading, a hymn and a prayer. W3W for the cairn on top of Holmbury hill - ///joined.manage.pipe.
You can join the group walking from Holmbury village hall at about 6am or make your own way to the top to arrive before 6.29am.
You are welcome to return to the Church room with us for a cooked breakfast - please drop a line to us if you would like breakfast at [email protected] to make sure we have enough breakfast for everyone. Thank you

Join us in the Church room for a cooked breakfast with Martha's fabulous eggs, they may not look exactly like the photo but they are home produce and really good!
In theory this is for those who walked up to the sunrise service, but we know that not everyone can manage that walk, myself included. So everyone is welcome, whether you have done the walk or not. But please drop a line to Becky, our administrator, if you would like breakfast at [email protected] to make sure we have enough breakfast for everyone. Thank you

Our Easter Sunday service will start at 10am as usual. There will be a service of Holy Communion in church and a chance for the children to join the Easter Funday in the church room, also at 10am. After the service there will be refreshments in the church and an Easter egg hunt in the church graveyard.

Join us at about 11am after the Easter morning church service, and after the Funday in the church room, in the churchyard for an Easter Egg Hunt around our lovely Graveyard.
You will be hunting for plastic Easter eggs as the deer eat them if we put out chocolate ones. But you will go home with proper chocolate eggs!

The Sunday after Easter is one of our benefice services when all the churches in the benefice worship together. This week it will be in Holmbury at 10.30am. do join us for this service of Holy Communion with the Holmbury church choir.

Morning Prayer is a non-eucharistic service which can follow a diverse range of formats, from quite formal liturgy to services with themes that engage us in different ways. For example we had a Morning Prayer service on modern slavery. We started to offer Morning Prayer a few years ago and, so far, the format has included hymns, songs and/or sung psalm, using easy-to-follow music.

A lively craft-based act of worship for families with dramatised readings that everyone can join in with.
Refreshments at 10.15 then dramatised story with costumes for all, songs and crafts for all ages. Finishes between 11.30am and 12noon.

Common Worship, with communion, on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Sung responses, with a wonderful choir and hymns.

10.30am on November 9th 2025 we will have our annual Remembrance service
Martha will be leading this service. Please do join us as we remember and honour the members of the armed forces who gave their lives across conflicts through the years, as well as those who survived and the others who continue to support them. We will be including the Act of Remembrance just before 11am.
Please note the different time for the start of the service.