You’re invited to church this Christmas!

You are very welcome at our Advent and Christmas services and events – bring your family and friends or come along on your own. Whether it will be your first time at church or you have been before, we look forward to welcoming you!

All events Calendar Advent & Christmas

Advent Carol Service

for 1 hour
Boxted: Holy Trinity
Braggon's Hill Boxted Bury Saint Edmunds, IP29 4LN, United Kingdom
Our beautifully evocative service of advent carols and readings as we look forward to the season of Advent and Christmas - with mulled wine afterwards.

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Nativity and Carols at Stanstead

for 1 hour
St James, Stanstead
Stanstead (Not the airport!!) Sudbury, CO10 9AT, United Kingdom
Our beautiful nativity service is great for all ages - children and adults are all welcome. We hope to have a real donkey, this year - and will be building the crib as well as singing some of those wonderful traditional carols. Do join us!

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Hartest Crib and Carol Service

for 1 hour
All Saints, Hartest
Hartest Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DH, United Kingdom
A beautiful service for everyone - children and adults are all welcome as we build the crib together, sing some traditional carols and hear the account of Jesus' birth. Come and join in the festive fun!

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Glemsford Carol Service

for 1 hour
St Mary the Virgin, Glemsford with Fenstead End
Churchgate Glemsford Sudbury, CO10 7QE, United Kingdom
A beautiful traditional service of carols and readings. Everyone is welcome to join in this evocative festive service.

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Christingle at Glemsford

for 1 hour
St Mary the Virgin, Glemsford with Fenstead End
Churchgate Glemsford Sudbury, CO10 7QE, United Kingdom
Our very popular and festive Christingle service - particularly special for families, for children and for adults. All are welcome to join in the festive fun of this Christmas Eve service.

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Christmas Crib and Carol Service at Somerton

for 1 hour
St Margaret, Somerton
Upper Somerton Somerton Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4ND, United Kingdom
Everyone is welcome to join in this Festive Christmas Eve service - suitable for children and adults alike - we will build the crib together and sing some traditional carols. Refreshments afterwards. We'd love you to join us!

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Christmas Midnight Holy Communion

for 59 mins
St Mary the Virgin, Glemsford with Fenstead End
Churchgate Glemsford Sudbury, CO10 7QE, United Kingdom
Our evocative welcoming of Christmas day as we celebrate our Saviour's birth. Everyone is welcome!

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Christmas Day Family Communion Service

for 1 hour
All Saints, Hartest
Hartest Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4DH, United Kingdom
An informal Communion service to celebrate Jesus' birth, on Christmas Day. Suitable for children and adults alike. Pop the turkey in the oven, come down to Hartest Church and take a moment out of this special day to focus on Jesus. Everyone is welcome!!

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Christmas Season Holy Communion

for 1 hour
St Mary the Virgin, Glemsford with Fenstead End
Churchgate Glemsford Sudbury, CO10 7QE, United Kingdom
As the Christmas season continues, we gather at Glemsford to hear more of the narrative of Jesus' birth and early childhood and to celebrate Communion together. Everyone is welcome!

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