This is an evening service to remember our loved ones departed from us. This year we are using the beautiful, meditative music of the Taizé Community to enhance our worship.
A candle being lit for those who have died in the last 2 years - we remember them with thanksgiving. As we come together to share our grief and our memories, may we draw strength and comfort from each other and find peace and consolation in our community.

There is a funeral taking place at St Mary's today.

Singing is such a great activity! We sing when we are happy or sad, alone or gathered with friends and family, or we sing just for the pleasure of it!

We feel good when we sing and it’s great for our health too. Singing encourages deep breathing and better use of our lungs, it helps memory and when singing we remember songs from long ago. Singing the songs we have known for years and remember from different times of our lives helps mental wellbeing and makes us feel happy and in touch with our past.

At 10.30 am, on Saturday, 4th May 2024 we will be singing well-known songs, hearing some familiar readings and enjoying a cup of tea or coffee and some cake or biscuits.

Anybody who would like to come and either join in - or just to listen - will be very welcome. The venue is St Mary’s Church, Church Hill, Plumtree.

To include placing of wreaths on Plumtree War Memorial.

Remembrance Service & planting of poppies for Armistice Day.

This informal family service at the beginning of the season of Advent brings together music, readings, and the lighting of candles, as we move from darkness to light in the expectation of Christ's coming.

We also begin the "The Posada" which celebrates Joseph and Mary's journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth in search of a place for Baby Jesus to be born. In Plumtree, small figures of the Holy Family travel from home to home in the parish and are received back at St Mary's on Christmas Eve at our Christingle service.

Plumtree School's Annual Carol Concert

Plumtree School - Celebration Assembly & Nativity Play

A candlelit traditional service of lessons and carols. The service consists of the reading of nine lessons, taken from various books of the Bible and covering the main themes of the Nativity story, together with the singing of well-loved Christmas carols. Followed by mulled wine and mince pies

Christingle is a joyful celebration that brings families and communities together to share the light of Jesus and spread a message of hope. A relaxed service, ideal for families with babies, toddlers or older children.
Christingle celebrations are named after the Christingles that are lit during the ceremony. Christingles are oranges wrapped in red tape, decorated with dried fruit or sweets, with a candle on the top. Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story:
The orange represents the world
The red ribbon (or tape) symbolises the love and blood of Christ
The sweets and dried fruit represent all of God’s creations
The lit candle represents Jesus’s light in the world, bringing hope to people living in darkness.

A service of Holy Communion for Christmas Day.

PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER TIME OF 9.30AM