to our vibrant Christian community
including our on-line streamed worship Church without walls
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St Peter’s is open for anyone to come in to look around, meditate or pray
Monday to Friday from 10 am - 3pm Saturday 10 - 4pm Sunday 12 noon - 4 pm.
Parish Office (inside St Peter's) Opening Hours
Office hours this week: Monday to Friday 9-3pm (office closes at 2pm this Wednesday)
From Holbrook Magazine February 2025
We host a variety of events from rock and folk concerts
through to outdoor activities and installations
Please browse this website to find out more about us -
you can view the Church diary and find out everything that is going on -
just go to the Parish Diary page
We are a FAIRTRADE Community and we recycle 
Sunday 14th December
The Third Sunday of Advent
St Peter's 10.00 am Holy Communion & Sunday Club
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St Mark's 10.00 am Family Worship
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St Swithun's No Morning Service this week
3.00 pm Carol Service
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The Church's Special Prayer for this week
God, for whom we watch and wait,
you sent John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Son:
give us courage to speak the truth,
to hunger for justice, and to suffer for the cause of right.
with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Churches who pray together grow
together. If you can, please take the
opportunity to pray, both individually or
with others at one of these weekly
meetings:
St Peter's: Tuesdays at 11.30 am, St Mark's: Wednesdays at 10 am, St Swithun's: Thursdays at 11 am
Zoom: Wednesdays at 7 pm
Church Without Walls
On-line streamed (and on-demand) worship
A range of prayer and worship resources can be found on the Church of England website www.churchofengland.org
You can also find other local, online services at derby.anglican.org/streams
Ways to keep in touch
'Three in One' is the Parish magazine:
'Three In One' is our monthly parish magazine. It contains useful information about services and events in our three churches and in the wider community, a letter from one of our church leaders, a prayer diary and sometimes a children's page.
If you would like to receive a paper copy regularly or have an item or advert included in a future publication, please contact the Parish Office.
Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter ENFOLD
Up to the minute information and pictures can be found on our Facebook page
If you would like to give to the work of the Parish, you can do so via Paypal
Please come and join members of our own and other Churches in Belper as we sing Carols on King Street on Saturday 20th December from 11-12. Details from Tony Ward.
We have a huge range of activities for children and young people. Go here for a special set of pages.
Coffee Mornings at St Peter’s 
10.30 am - 12 pm, 1st Tuesday of the month Come along and meet friends old and new.
There will be the usual book and jigsaw swap.
Coffee Morning and Bring and Buy at St Mark's
Saturday 17th January 10.30-12.00 All very welcome
Board Games Afternoons at St Peter’s 2nd Monday monthly from 2 pm,
Next Games Afternoon: Monday, 12th January at 2 pm. No Games Afternoon in December.
Come along and learn how to play Quirkle, play
Scrabble or bring along your favourite game.
Tea and biscuits
provided. It’ll be fun, see you there!
Widows Might…
A friendship group for widows. We meet at St Peter’s Church from 10.00 am - 12.00 pm on the second and fourth Thursdays each month. Becoming a widow can be a bewildering and lonely place. Widows Might… is a safe space for friendship, care, and mutual support. A place to talk, pray, and where possible offer each other support with unfamiliar day to day tasks. We plan all types of activities and adventures:
Widows Might.....talk together. Widows Might.....help one another.
Widows Might.....pray together. Widows Might.....advise on paperwork.
Widows Might......do practical things. Widows Might......ask God to help!
Widows Might......go walking. Widows Might…….go to the cinema/theatre/panto
Widows Might…….go shopping together. Widows Might…….go out for a meal.
Widows Might......understand everyone's different experience.
For more information please contact the Parish Office.
Hope for Belper manages the local Food and Community Hub
Donations may be given at St Peter's Church, St Mark's Church,
Morrisons or one of the three Co-Ops.
Our churches continue to have collection points for The Hub food bank: thank you
Please make donations suitable for the Food Bank: Cereal, Tinned potatoes/packet mash, Tinned sweetcorn/carrots, Coffee, Hot dogs, Tinned meat and chicken, eg mince, Curries, Meatballs, Tinned chilli/curry, Tinned fruit, Tinned fish,
Sponge puddings and custard, Rice pudding, Tea and coffee, UHT milk,
Washing liquid for clothes and dishes, Toilet rolls – 2 roll packs, Sanitary items, Toiletries – single toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, deodorant, Treats – biscuits, chocolate, sweets.
The Hub also need help with the finance to buy the fresh items that go into each box (such as bread and milk). So you might like to make a donation (even better, if you can, Gift Aid it) to Hope for Belper. There are envelopes in each church.
If you are able to add to your shopping basket to support us you will find occasional updates on our Facebook page as to which items are most useful or that are we are short of – just click on the link http://facebook.com/hopeforbelper/
For an interesting report full of pictures about everything that goes on in the Parish please call in to any of the churches and pick up a copy to find out all about us, or click here.