Kirsty Warren

14 March 2025

Churches of Lindfield Easter services

Kirsty Warren

14 March 2025

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s churches of Lindfield Easter services event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Easter in our churches.

All Saints Church

www.allsaintslindfield.org/christmas
Email: allsaints@lindfield.info

Good Friday 18th April

10am – A service for all ages as we explore the meaning of Good Friday followed by an opportunity to make your own Easter garden and enjoy hot cross buns.

12noon – An hour’s service of music, prayer, Bible readings and short reflective talks around the Cross.

7pm – Good Friday Requiem Concert New Sussex Singers will be performing a concert of beautiful music for Good Friday including works by Stanford, Lotti and Duruflé. The evening will culminate in a performance of Matthew Coleridge’s ‘Requiem’, featured in the 2023 Classic FM Hall of Fame. The Requiem will be sung by a choir of over 50, as NSS are joined by singers from All Saints and the local community.

Tickets £15 or £5 for under 21s, available at www.allsaintslindfield.org/requiem

Easter Sunday 20th April

8am – Holy Communion

9.30am – Easter All Age Celebration with Communion followed by an egg hunt for the children in The Vicarage garden.

11.15am – Easter Communion Service

6pm – Lively Easter Celebration led by young people, also including communion.

Some of our services will be livestreamed: www.allsaintslindfield.org/live

Lindfield United Reformed Church

Good Friday 18th April

10am – Remembering the Cross

Saturday 19th April

10am - 2pm – Easter Egg Hunt, starting from the church explore the village, and return for a reward.

Easter Day 20th April

10am – Celebrating the hope we know through the resurrection of Jesus. You are invited to bring cut flowers to help decorate the Easter Cross on the High Street before the service begins

Our services can be accessed online at www.lindfieldurc.org.uk

Lindfield Evangelical Free Church

www.lefc.co.uk

Good Friday 18th April

10.30am – ‘Who Did Jesus Die For?’

Easter Sunday 20th April

10.30am – ‘How Can We Know?’

St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

www.sash.org.uk

Palm Sunday 13th April

10am – Holy Communion – Meet on Scaynes Hill Common 10am, with service in church to start at 10.15am

Maundy Thursday 17th April

7pm – Parish Supper followed by Tenebrae Service

Good Friday 18th April

2pm – Hour at the Cross

Easter Day 20th April

6am – Sunrise Service followed by breakfast

10am – Family Communion followed by Easter Egg Hunt

Kirsty Warren

8 November 2024

Churches of Lindfield Christmas services

Kirsty Warren

8 November 2024

Welcome to Lindfield Life’s churches of Lindfield Christmas services event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Christmas in our churches.

All Saints Church

www.allsaintslindfield.org/christmas
Email: allsaints@lindfield.info

Sunday 15th December
8am - Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
9.30am - Morning service with children’s groups
4.30pm - Traditional Carol Service (1)
7pm - Traditional Carol Service (2)

Tuesday 17th December
10am - Tiger@Ten Christmas special (fortnightly group for over 65s)

Sunday 22nd December
9.30am - All Saints Kids Nativity
The children can come dressed up as a shepherd, farmyard animal or angel as we retell the Christmas story in this enchanting, fun and slightly chaotic service
11.15am - Morning Worship
4.30pm - Big Band Carols (1)
7pm - Big Band Carols (2)

Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
3pm - Christingle
This Christingle is a particularly accessible service for all, including SEN families and those with very young children
4pm - Christingle
5pm - Christingle
6pm - Christingle
11.15pm - Midnight Communion

Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day)
8am - Christmas Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
10am - Christmas Celebration

Sunday 29th December
10am - Morning Worship (children will stay in for whole service)
6pm - Cornerstone – our informal band-led service for all ages

Please visit our YouTube channel to watch some of these services broadcast live.

Lindfield United Reformed Church

Friday 13th December
4pm - Messy Christmas
The monthly Messy Church focuses on Christmas

Sunday 15th December
10am - Family Worship
5pm - Carols by Candlelight
A candlelight traditional service of lessons and carols

Thursday 19th December
7.30pm - Christmas Concert
Join us in the church or online for a light-hearted Christmas concert with music from the Perdido Players, and more as we celebrate together the meaning and message of Christmas

Sunday 22nd December
10am - Family Worship - including the Lord’s Supper

Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
4pm - Crib Service
A retelling of the first Christmas, appropriate to, and performed by, the very youngest. Suitable for all ages

Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day)
10am - Family Service - We celebrate the birth of Jesus

Lindfield Evangelical Free Church

www.lefc.co.uk

Sunday 22nd December
4pm - Carol Service

Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day)
10.30am - Christmas Service

St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

www.sash.org.uk

Saturday 30th November
4.30pm - Lighting of the Village Christmas Tree With hot dogs and carols - followed by mulled wine and mince pies

Monday 9th December
4pm - Christingle Service Followed by a Christmas Party Tea

Thursday 19th December
10.30am - Cheerful, short service with carols
7pm - Celtish Concert - free admission As seen on BBC One’s Songs of Praise

Sunday 22nd December
6pm - Carols by Candlelight Followed by mulled wine and mince pies

Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve)
4pm - Crib Service
11.30pm - Midnight Communion

Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day)
10am - Christmas Holy Communion

Sunday 5th January
4.30pm - Follow the Star Trail

Kirsty Warren

9 February 2024

St Augustine’s Church in Scaynes Hill buries a time capsule

Kirsty Warren

9 February 2024

By Jenny Walker

On Sunday 21st January, in a history-making moment, time capsules were placed under the new floor at St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill.

This came at the end of a special service led by the Rt Rev Ruth Bushyager, Bishop of Horsham. St Augustine’s Vicar, Rev Beverley Miles, told the congregation that the wonderful space under the floor was just too tempting to leave completely empty! The intention had been to put a single time capsule under the new floor, but the number of interesting items had increased and actually four containers were needed - two time capsules, a metal document box and a bottle tin.

Much thought had been given to suitable items to include which would paint a picture of the church and community at this particular time and many members of the church and the local community were involved in the process.

Members of the congregation and friends at the church coffee shop were asked to write ‘postcards to the future’ giving details of their everyday lives and experiences. Children from St Augustine’s CEP School contributed drawings of the school capturing one of the seasons and children from Great Walstead School wrote about ‘Life at Great Walstead in 2023’. Scaynes Hill Sustainability Group produced a leaflet describing some of their projects and events.

Copies of the parish magazine for 2023 included in the time capsule provide a spotlight on the church and the village. The Pew News for 2023, service booklets and flyers of services and events give information about church activities throughout the year. A leaflet and postcards describe the ‘Jubilee Tapestry’ and its making. St Augustine’s Eco Church status is reflected in information about the church’s ‘A Rocha Silver Award’ and environmental initiatives. Also included are items that the church produced during the pandemic - the Lockdown Cookbook, the Lockdown Calendar and a DVD of the Lockdown Readings of St Mark’s Gospel. Items providing general information about our life and times complete the archive along with a bottle of communion wine in a special bottle tin.

The group placing the time capsules under the floor consisted of Bishop Ruth, the churchwardens, Kevin Deal and Sheila Argent, and Jenny Walker, the church archivist. The Bishop spoke first of the timeless nature of the church which is a wonderful and precious thing. Looking around the church at the stained glass, memorials and tapestry the Bishop spoke of those who had gone before in this place - generation upon generation of our forebears had witnessed here and this can be felt in the stone of the walls.

The Diocese itself would be celebrating its 950th anniversary next year. Now we were thinking about people we do not know who, in 100 years’ time, will open the capsules and be fascinated by what they find. The Bishop then placed the bottle of communion wine under the floor and this was followed by the two time capsules, the document box having been placed in the space earlier. In her prayers Bishop Ruth looked back, speaking of God’s love and grace through the ages and today. She prayed a forward blessing on those who will go before us in the decades to come. Finally, she prayed that the witness of the church in Scaynes Hill would be enduring and that it would be faithful to its calling to be the light of Christ in this place.