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Good Friday Morning Prayer

for 45 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

A short reflection on the events on Good Friday. This is followed by walking the cross to St James’ Abinger and at 1 pm a Service of Reflection at St James’ Abinger

Service of Reflection

for 45 mins
St James's Church, Abinger Common
St James's Church, Abinger Common, St James's Church, Abinger Common Abinger Common, Surrey RH5 6HZ ///delay.trials.plans, RH5 6HZ, United Kingdom

At 1pm, after the lunch at St James's church there is a short Service of Reflection at St James’ Abinger Common.

Easter Sunrise 6am

for 1 hour, 15 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

Celebrate the Resurrection at the top of Holmbury Hill, at 6am, as the sun rises above Leith Hill, with a reading, a hymn and a prayer.
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

Easter Sunday Communion with Funday

for 1 hour
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

Easter Sunday is on Sunday April 20th.
On this special Sunday we welcome everyone. Children will start in the church service and go out a short time later to the church Room. So do join us to celebrate this great day.

Morning Prayer

Monthly. Every Third Sunday at for 50 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

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.

Monthly

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Sunday Worship Resources Online at St Mary's

Every Sunday at for 1 hour, 15 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

You can see our pre-recorded service offerings on our website. Feel free to use these any day and any time.
Click here to access worship resources for the services: https://www.holmburychurch.com/sunday-worship-resources

St Mary's Worship Online Resources are available all the time - just click on https://www.holmburychurch.com/sunday-worship-resources

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Church Cafe with Repair Cafe

Every Tuesday at for 2 hours, 30 mins
Please note that this event will not start until
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

Tuesday cafe will start at 10.30am from April 22nd and run till 1pm. We will have refreshment and also run a repair cafe at the same time.

There is usually a break over the summer and Christmas holidays.

Benefice Service of Holy Communion

for 1 hour
St James's Church, Abinger Common
St James's Church, Abinger Common, Abinger Common, Surrey RH5 6HZ ///delay.trials.plans, RH5 6HZ, United Kingdom

On the first Sunday after Easter there is a Benefice service at 10.30am. We have a joint service with all the churches of the benefice. This month we are at St James, Abinger Common.

Iona Communion service

Monthly. Every Fourth Sunday at for 45 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

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

The Iona style service is usually the 4th Sunday of the month except in August and December when we have the services in different churches around the Benifice

Holmbury Cafe

Every Tuesday at for 2 hours
Please note that this event will not be taking place between and
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

An informal Cafe for the community held in the church hall most Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am to 1pm. From 22nd April the Tuesday Cafe will start at 10.30am

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!

Most weeks on a Tuesday and Thursday

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Holy Communion (sung)

Every Second Sunday at for 45 mins
Please note that this event will not be taking place between and
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

Common Worship, with communion, on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Sung, with choir.

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Open Garden Raising funds for the church

for 1 hour
Frost home in Holmbury
Frost home in Holmbury, Pleas contact the church office for the address. it is also open on the Sunday uner the National open gardens scheme, RH5, United Kingdom

Please put in your diaries a special event on Saturday 17th May: Richard and Sally will be opening their garden for local residents between 2 and 5 pm, in aid of church funds. This will be on the day before their garden is open to the public under the National Gardens Scheme. We are most grateful to Richard and Sally for generously offering to host this fund-raising opportunity. It comes at an opportune time, as we are about to embark upon significant stonework and roof repairs at the church.

Holy Communion (said)

In January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November, December. Every First Sunday at for 35 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

A short, reflective service of Holy Communion on the first Sunday of the month. Starts earlier at 9.30am and the Funday for children and families follows after this

First Sunday of all months except August

Funday

In January, February, March, April, June, July, September, November, December. Every First Sunday at for 1 hour
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

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

Some months we have all-age worship so please check our website for up to date information https://www.holmburychurch.com/

Benefice Services

Sunday 29 December 2024, Sunday 30 March 2025, Sunday 29 June 2025, Sunday 30 November 2025 at for 1 hour
One of the churches in the Benefice
One of the churches in the Benefice, St James's Church in Abinger Common, or Christ church in Coldharbour, or St Mary's in Holmbury St Mary or St john's in Wotton., United Kingdom

At 10.30am, on every 5th Sunday of the Month and through August we join with the other 3 churches in the benefice.

We travel around the churches in the benefice going to a different church for a service of Holy Communion on each 5th Sunday and all Sundays in August. The 4 churches are in Abinger Common, Coldharbour, Holmbury St Mary and Wotton. Please see the church website, https://www.holmburychurch.com/, for details of where the next Benefice service will be.

Every 5th Sunday in the month and all Sundays in August.

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Harvest Festival

Sunday 06 October 2024 at for 45 mins
Holmbury Church
Horsham Road Holmbury St Mary Dorking ///fault.stray.excuse entrance from small road by church, RH5 6PF, United Kingdom

Our annual celebration of the the bounty and blessing of harvest in the UK. This is an all-age service. There will be activities for younger children as well.
Refreshments afterwards will include cake!

We ask for donations of food for the Dorking food bank - dried foods and tins. See the food bank list of what they can use https://dorkingarea.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/

Please bring your donations to the church in the week prior to the service or on Sunday October 6th for the service at 10am.

An annual service often on the first Sunday of October