Events (Page 3)
Join our Lent Book Club for 2021
Lent isn’t far away. I thought it would be good for us to read a book together during Lent. I have chosen a short book by former Archbishop Rowan Williams called Being Disciples. There will be 3 gatherings on Zoom to discuss the book during Lent on Mondays at 7pm: Monday 22nd February, Monday 15th March and Monday 29th March. You are welcome to attend any or all of these sessions which will be a chance to chat together and…
Christmas Services 2020: in church, online and on the phone
There is something for everyone this Christmas in the Parishes of Barlborough and Clowne! Christmas Eve On the Phone – dial 0333 0164 757 (then 51074674# and 5602#) 9.15am Phone Communion Service for Clowne 10.15am Phone Communion Service for Barlborough 3.00pm 9 Lessons and Carols Service on the phone Also listen to the Christmas Sermon on the Dial a Sermon line 01246 388487. Online 4.30pm watch our Crib Service on Youtube: In Church and on Facebook Live Midnight Mass is…
Join in Advent Windows in Clowne this December
Since this Christmas will be very different from usual we would like to have a bit of Christmas cheer in the village. We are encouraging people to decorate a window of their house for Advent. Each day a new window will be revealed around the village. The window will be posted on the St John the Baptist Church Facebook page and in other groups on Facebook. We ask that windows are lit from 4 to 9 pm each evening, and…
Join in Advent Windows in Barlborough this December
Since this Christmas will be very different from usual we would like to have a bit of Christmas cheer in the village. We are encouraging people to decorate a window of their house for Advent. Each day a new window will be revealed around the village. The window will be posted on the St James’ Facebook page and on the Barlborough Community Facebook group. We ask that windows are lit from 4 to 9 pm each evening, and each window…
Services up to the end of January 2021 – dates for your diary
We have planned all of our services up to the end of January with a mixture of in-person, online and over the phone events to be as safe and inclusive as possible. Below are all the dates for your diary. All services available to view either live on Facebook or after broadcast on YouTube. Thursday morning Phone Church to continue as normal. In-person services are of course subject to change if coronavirus restrictions change. See the Church of England website…
Celebrating 75 years since VJ Day in Barlborough 2020
This Saturday 15th August we celebrate 75 years since the decisive end of the Second World War, Victory in Japan Day. Watch our short service here: Here is the order of service should you want to follow it at home: You’ll see the bunting has returned to Barlborough for this celebration and the Parish Council are encouraging people to have a socially distanced afternoon tea with neighbours from 2pm.
Keep Calm and Stay In – celebrating VE Day 2020 in Barlborough & Clowne
Today is VE Day and sadly we are unable to gather together physically to celebrate. Rev Bryony is going to conduct a short act of Remembrance and Thanksgiving (including the Last Post) at Barlborough War Memorial at 10.45am live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stjamesbarlborough/live/ – please do not come to the memorial to watch but do please watch on Facebook. The video will appear here after it has broadcast. You may wish to pray this prayer on this important day in our…
Barlborough celebrates VE Day at home
To commemorate V.E. Day, Friday 8th May, 2020, the Parish Council will hang bunting from the railings outside St.James’ Church, Barlborough. The bunting has been decorated by local groups including children and young people. The Chair to the Parish Council, Jane Haywood, will also play 1940s music on Clowne Road Barlborough at approximately 3.00p.m., following the broadcast of Sir Winston Churchill’s Victory Speech. Please feel free join in with bunting and music on your property. This would help us create…
Sing Resurrection! Join in at 10am Easter Day – use the videos here
A counter-infection of joy and hope for Easter Day Easter Sunday 2020 will be an Easter Sunday like no other before it. We cannot sing the great Easter hymns inside our churches, but we can sing them in this way… At 10am on Easter Sunday April 12th all who want to celebrate the resurrection are encouraged to go outside and sing Jesus Christ is Risen Today and Thine be the Glory at the top of their voices! You could sing…
Join us for our Plastic Free Harvest Festival Family Fun Day!
A Harvest Festival with a difference! This year parishioners at Clowne Parish Church are celebrating Harvest Festival in a new way – they are encouraging people to go plastic-free! Rector, Bryony Taylor said, “I’ve always struggled a bit with Harvest Festival having grown up in a town. It is a Victorian festival that we celebrate now with much nostalgia but it doesn’t always feel that relevant in these modern times when you can buy strawberries all year round! I realised…