Every 3rd Sunday of the month we hold a 10am Family Communion Service in Church. Do join us - all are welcome.

This year our lunchtime Lent Group will be following a course from the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity called RePurpose which is designed to help people discover God’s purposes for their life in the 3rd and 4th ages of life (so this is aimed at folk who are retired or nearing retirement and acknowledging all our differing contexts). Dates as follows:
Tuesday 11th March – Looking in the Rear-View Mirror
Tuesday 18th March – Identity: Who am I?
Tuesday 25th March - My Context
Tuesday 1st April – Vocation
Tuesday 8th April - Growth
Tuesday 15th April - Legacy
Meeting in the Feast Room next to Matching Church, CM17 0QZ. Tea and coffee provided, please bring your own sandwiches/packed lunch. All Welcome.

We hold a weekly prayer group at All Saints High Laver on Wednesdays at 9am - all are welcome to join us. We enjoy some music, listen to a bible reading and pray together. A lot of the time is spent in shared silent prayer for 30 mins - please arrive a little earlier ready to start at 9am.

Every Wednesday at 10am at All Saints, High Laver we hold a midweek service of Holy Communion.
You'd be most welcome to join us - we are usually about 12-14 people. On Ash Wednesday this service will include imposition of Ashes.

an evening lent discussion group based around bible passages looking at how we make a way through the wilderness with God through times of change and challenge. We meet on a selection of Wednesdays through lent (see below) in The Chequers Pub, Matching Green, CM17 0PZ. Turn up to one session or more - all welcome. 12th March, 19th March, 2nd April, 16th April 2025

On the 4th Sunday of every month we have a family service at All Saints, High Laver. This is open to all ages and stages - a service of music, readings and prayers led by our lay ministry team. Come and join us and stay for refreshments afterwards in church. You can come on your own or bring your grandchildren or children.

at St Mary the Virgin Matching CM17 0QZ followed by refreshments in our adjacent Feast Room. All Welcome.

from absolute beginners to Grand Masters – all ages and stages. Just turn up, meet other players, have fun and have a go. Refreshments provided. Contact Gavin or Julia for info if needed: [email protected] / [email protected]

On the 1st Sunday of every month we hold a traditional 1662 Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion Service at St Mary the Virgin, Little Laver. This is a service with beautiful words, music and silence. All welcome.

We start Holy Week with our Holy Communion service (Common Worship) on Palm Sunday at St Mary the Virgin, Matching CM170QZ. Open to all ages and stages with the blessing of the palms and hymns followed by refreshments in our Ancient Marriage Feast Room adjacent.

Our 4pm children's group initiative for 0 -11 yr olds with their parent/carer at Matching Feast Room CM17 0QZ once a month. Fun, activities, craft, prayer, praise and refreshments.

A short form of night prayer and a relaxing way to end the day on the Monday and Wednesday of Holy Week 2025 on zoom. (NB in person night prayer in Tuesday 15th April at Little Laver)
Email: [email protected] for the zoom link

A beautiful candlelit service of night prayer with silence, singing and stillness in Holy Week at St Mary the Virgin, Little Laver CM17 0RL (please bring a torch and park in the farm adjacent - the top courtyard)

we gather together to remember Jesus' last supper by sharing a meal, celebrating Holy Communion and washing one another's hands at All Saints' High Laver, High Laver Ongar, CM5 0DX. Please contact Tina Webb 01277 890 241 or Tricia Ryder 07710644486 if you wish to attend so we can cater for the right number. Open to all ages and stages.

a service of music, silence, meditations on art, prayers and readings as we walk the way of the cross with Jesus this Good Friday. St Mary the Virgin, Matching CM170QZ

At 10am we celebrate Easter as a Church Family with Family Communion followed by refreshments. Please do join us.

at St Mary the Virgin, Little Laver CM17 0RL. (An earlier time than usual as a one-off owing to VE Commemoration Service at Matching Airfield at 10am today).

In remembrance of the airmen who gave their lives while flying from Matching Airfield in 1944 and in Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of VE Day - this service will take place from 10am-11am in the former Base Hospital adjacent to the Airfield Memorial, Anchor Lane, CM5 0JR*, with thanks to the Rowe family the service will be followed by: Talk on the History of the Airfield by Mark Ratcliff, Display of historic Photographs, Videos and WWII vehicles Airfield Tours Food and Bar Tent (please bring cash for hospitality).
If you are able to register your interest in advance use the following link to help us with planning for numbers: https://forms.office.com/r/Mf1Pzc5CKB More information: [email protected] or call Andrew Barnard on 07770734867. Donations and Proceeds in aid of St Marys Church Restoration Fund.

At 10am on the 2nd Sunday of each month we hold a Common Worship Family Communion at St Mary's Matching, please do join us.