Welcome

Please click on the link below to watch an aerial video of the church and listen to our bells.

Drone photography courtesy of https://www.upaerial.co.uk

Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website.

Our church is situated in the picturesque village of Lemsford, close to Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City and opposite Brocket Hall. 

We warmly welcome all visitors to our church and we would love you to come to one of our services or events.  We hope that you find what you are looking for in these pages, but if you have any questions and would like to speak to someone about the church, please do contact one of the team members listed in the Who's Who and Contacts page.

We look forward to seeing you.

 
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7th SEPTEMBER, 11am - ALL-TOGETHER WORSHIP 'DARING TO TRY', followed by ‘BACK TOGETHER BBQ!   This September we’re exploring what it means to have a go — even when we’re not sure we’ll get it right. Whether you’re 5 or 95, join us for a lively all-age service reminding us that God doesn’t ask us to be perfect — just to try, and he’ll be right there with us. Afterwards we’ll be firing up the BBQ for some ‘Back Together’ burgers, sausages, and fun with friends old and new. And don't forget to bring your school, work or 'out-and-about' bag for a new term blessing!! All welcome — always.   We’d love as many people as possible to get involved with helping at our post-service BBQ, either by bringing something, making something, or asking around if others can. Just add whatever you can bring or do to the sign-up sheet at the link below. It should be accessible and editable by all, especially if you open this link using a computer/laptop... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KoSlH_yIkBQ6BzJwp5q2M31zG_uQmhO_rf3GcKzI4MI    TUESDAY 9th SEPTEMBER, 2:30pm - 4pm FRIENDSHIP TEA

THE AUGUST/SEPTEMBER PARISH MAGAZINE   This edition has a definite holiday vibe. There are a fabulous set of articles as usual.  Many thanks to absolutely everyone who contributed. Printed copies of the magazine are in Church too. To get the pdf (online) copy click here

THE YEAR OF SPIRITUAL RENEWAL AND WELLBEING
This year, St Albans Diocese invites us all to embark on a journey of reconnecting with our faith and discovering the renewing life of the Holy Spirit. There’s a wonderful new website full of opportunities, including retreats, quiet days (some specially for churchwardens), pilgrimage walks, talks, online accompanied prayer weeks, courses, and a special summer Cathedral celebration.

You’ll also find resources for prayer, as well as helpful guidance to care for your own wellbeing.

Why not take a look? You can book events directly, but if something catches your eye and you’d like some company, let us know, and we can see if others would like to join in too.

Visit: year.stalbansdiocese.org

'IOO CLUB' AUGUST DRAW WINNERS

The winning numbers of the July '100 Club' Draw were:

1st prize:  Number 9    £91.80

2nd prize:  Number 41  £55.08

3rd prize:  Number 80  £36.72

FOOD BANK

Our local Food Bank at the New Zion Christian Fellowship church would appreciate receiving donations of food and other things from us now and all year round. It would be wonderful if you could support them by bringing various things in on Sunday mornings, and placing them in the big plastic box which will be placed in the porch. The sort of things the Food Bank would like to receive are:

• All food with good sell by dates (tins of fruit and veg, jams, packets of cereal, coffee, tea, long life milk and so on)
• Toiletries such as shampoo and conditioner and toilet rolls
• Cleaning products (kitchen and bathroom cleaners etc)

We are asked not to donate clothes.

Nigel will arrange to take our offerings to the New Zion church every Wednesday morning.

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CHURCH GIVING Many of us are happiest giving cash rather than scanning QR codes or tapping payment cards or smartphones. But, if you like the QR Code, you can point your Smartphone’s camera or QR app at it, and it will let you give, or from your PC/Mac you can just click this link: https://givealittle.co/campaigns/10cd954f-25f7-46d9-8813-634634729bfa.    You can also give via the new (easy to use) card payment device – both at the back of the church - these donations go to St Johns funds.  We are planning to make the QR Codes easily accessible from the pews too

Please sign up for a spot in the Cleaning Rota Still slots to fill! More volunteers are needed to help us. All the  materials you'll need are provided. All that we need is your time! Let's spread this load between us all!! Please contact the churchwardens if you would like to take a turn with cleaning.  You can choose a date that suits you!     We continue to think of Ukraine: Bishop Alan says we can pray, and practically we also have an option to donate to the Red Cross Appeal. To see their appeal details, please copy and paste this link into your browser: https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal.  You may donate any amount you wish, and your cash will go towards helping people who are being affected by the crisis, by supplying them with food, water, first aid, medicines, warm clothes and shelter.  Donations may be made direct to the Red Cross appeal, or alternatively, you may care to donate using the QR code below.  The QR code will also be displayed in church. If you don't do QR Codes then clicking this link on your computer goes to the same "give-a-litte" link: https://givealittle.co/campaigns/753bbfac-510a-47d8-86cf-f6a707ddc585

PLEASE CAN YOU HELP

WE COULD REALLY DO WITH YOUR FINANCIAL HELP IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME.

PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING IF YOU CAN TO SUPPORT OUR CHURCH AND OUR WORK IN THE COMMUNITY.

EITHER

CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR QUICK DONATION PAGE

CLICK HERE

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ALTERNATIVELY WE CAN NOW RECEIVE DONATIONS VIA TEXT MESSAGE BY TEXTING THE WORD LEMSFORD FOLLOWED BY A SPACE AND THEN AN AMOUNT OF YOUR DONATION, TO 70085.  FOR EXAMPLE, TO GIVE £5 TYPE LEMSFORD 5, TO GIVE £10 TYPE LEMSFORD 10.  THEN SIMPLY SEND YOUR TEXT TO 70085.  TEXTS WILL COST YOUR DONATION AMOUNT PLUS ONE STANDARD RATE MESSAGE.

MANY THANKS

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Choir practice every Sunday at 9.45 am 

Bell ringing practice every Monday evening at 7.30 pm