CHURCHES across Stevenage and the surrounding vilages are holding services to celebrate Christmas, and the Comet has put together a guide of what’s coming up.
•All Saints Church
Christmas Eve: 4pm crib service, 7pm first mass of Christmas, 11.30pm midnight mass
Christmas Day: 10am family holy communion, 12pm mass.
•Bunyan Baptist Church
Christmas Day: 10.30am all-age Christmas celebration.
•Christ the King
Christmas Day: 9am Christmas mass, 11.15am sung Eucharist
•Church of the Transfiguration
Christmas Eve: 6pm mass, 9pm mass
Christmas Day: 11am Christmas mass.
•Elim Pentecostal Church
Christmas Day, 10am service.
•Great Ashby Community Church
Christmas Day, 10.30am service.
•High Street Methodist Church
Christmas Day, 10.30am family celebration.
•Holy Trinity Church
Christmas Eve 4pm crib service, 11.30pm midnight mass
Christmas Day, 8am said Eucharist, 9.30am sung Eucharist.
•Longmeadow Evangelical Church
Christmas Eve, 5.30pm traditional carol service
Christmas Day, 10.30am celebration service.
•Salvation Army
Christmas Day, 10.30am service.
•St Andrew and St George
Christmas Eve, 9.45am mass, 10.30pm Midnight Mass with carols
Christmas Day, 10am procession and mass with carols.
•St Hilda’s
Christmas Eve, 6.30pm children’s mass, 10.30pm carols, 11pm midnight mass
Christmas Day, 10am mass.
•St Hugh and St John’s
Christmas Eve, 4pm crib and Christingle service, 11.30pm midnight communion
Christmas Day, 10am family communion.
•St Joseph’s
Christmas Eve, 5pm family mass, 10pm first mass of Christmas, 11.30pm Kerala mass
Christmas Day, 10am mass.
•St Martin’s and St Mary’s
Christmas Eve, 4pm St Martin’s crib service, 11.30pm St Martin’s holy communion
Christmas Day, 8am St Mary’s holy communion, 10am St Martin’s family communion.
•St Mary’s, Aston
Christmas Eve, 4pm crib service and nativity play, 11.30pm Midnight Mass
Christmas Day, 10am family communion.
•St Mary’s, Graveley
Christmas Day 11.30am family service.
•St Mary’s, Shephall
Christmas Eve, 3pm crib service, 7.30pm candlelight carol service, 11.30pm midnight mass
Christmas Day, 9.30am family communion.
•St Nicholas
Christmas Eve, 4.30pm community Nativity and Christingle service, 11pm communion
Christmas Day 8am short said service of holy communion, 9.30am lively all-age worship followed by communion.
•St Paul’s
Christmas Day, 9.30am service.
•St Peter’s, Broadwater
Christmas Eve, 4pm children’s carol service, 11pm midnight mass
Christmas Day, 10.30pm family communion.
•Trinity Church, Knebworth
Christmas Eve, 11.30pm service with communion
Christmas Day, 10am family service.
•United Reformed Church, Bedwell
Christmas Day, 10.30am family service.
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