Wednesday 24 December 2025 - Christmas Eve Carol Service - 18h30

This year we continue with our traditional service of Carols by Candlelight including the Blessing of the Crib. We invite you to:

· walk up the candle-lit Church Lane (limited parking is available)

· gather in the candle-lit church

· sing some lovely well-known carols (from a carol booklet), each linked by a line of the Christmas Story

· hear the children singing around the crib.

The service will last about 60 minutes. Everyone is welcome!

This year’s collection will be donated to The Chiltern Centre, which provides specialist care for 16 - 30 year olds with disabilities, so please give generously, by cash, or online .

Thursday 25 December 2025 - Christmas Day Holy Communion - 11h00

We will be holding our traditional Service of Holy Communion for Christmas Day in St Helen's Church at 11h00.

Walking Nativity - Saturday 20 December 2025

Thank YOU to everyone who came! It's so great to have such wonderful support. 

Special thanks to all who helped organise and do stuff and to our star turn, Basil Bagel Burger the ponkey (sic), our hilarious thespian innkeeper at the pub and of course Kirsty and Michael for the wonderful costumes and activity👏🌲🫏

Berrick & Roke Christmas Fair 2025

The Christmas Fair raised a magnificent £2765.60 towards maintaining and running our beautiful historic village church.

A massive 'Thank You' to everybody who came, and to those who cooked, served, poured, decorated, set trails, sold, operated competitions and so generously allocated an enormous amount of energy and expertise.

And a particular thanks to the terrific village children who got stuck in with running events, Christingles, and competitions.

What a wonderful village we live in – such bonhomie…

No wonder Santa and his Elf were delighted to fit Berrick into their very busy schedule!

Prayers for peace and hope

Please see here for the Church of England's prayers for peace and hope in the midst of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict and here for the Church of England's response to the conflict in Ukraine.

Regular Services at St Helen's

For the current pattern of weekly services at St Helen's please see here.

Online Worship

The Benefice YouTube channel is available at:

 https://www.youtube.com/c/stmaryschalgrovewithsthelensberricksalome .

Enquiries about Marriage and Baptism etc

These should be directed to Father Michael Lakey on 01865 890392 (not available on Mondays).