to our vibrant Christian community
including our on-line streamed worship Church without walls
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The Parish Office in St Peter's is now closed and will reopen on Thursday 2nd January, 9 am.
St Peter's will be open everyday during that time from 10 am - 4.30 pm (approx).
At other times 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.
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 
Tuesday 24th December
Christmas
St Peter's 6.00 pm Christingle
St Peter's 11.30 pm Midnight Communion
St Mark's 4.00 pm Christingle
Wednesday 25th December
Christmas
St Peter's 10.30 am Parish Christmas Day Communion
(No morning service at St Mark's or St Swithun's)
Sunday 29th December
St Mark's 10.00 am Parish Holy Communion
(No morning service at St Peter's or St Swithun's)
The Church's Special Prayer for this week:
Almighty God,
as we prepare with joy to celebrate the gift of the Christ-child,
embrace the earth with your glory and be for us a living hope
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
On-line streamed (and on-demand) worship
There is a technical problem with this at the moment but engineers are working on it. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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 
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’ 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.
Board Games Afternoons at St Peter’s 2nd Monday monthly
from 2 pm (Next session Monday 13th January 2025)
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!
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 chilli/curry, Rice pudding, Tinned fruit, Tinned fish, Toilet rolls – 2 roll packs, Sanitary items, Toiletries – single toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, 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.