Christmas Services

All our Advent and Christmas Services can be joined Online via Zoom (email our Minster on grove.rev@gmail.com for details on how to join).

2 of our services (Sundays 6 and 13 December) are also Onsite at the Grove Centre Church (GCC). To maintain Covid safety, please wear face-masks in our building.

Sunday, 6 December, 10:30am  (Onsite at GCC / Online)

2nd Sunday in Advent, our Gift Service, with Communion

We’ll bring our gifts for families in need this Christmas, to be distributed by Voluntary Services Lewisham (VSL).

Please deposit your gifts as you arrive in the service.

Sunday, 13 December, 10:30am (Onsite at GCC / Online)

3rd Sunday in Advent

Sunday, 20 December 10:30am (Online)

4th Sunday in Advent - Nativity service

Please join us for what should be a fun filled all-age service with plenty of carol singing, and we hope as many of you as possible will dress up. This year it’s a new creative challenge to see what kind of costume you can create at home. Could you make a mask? A Halo? Donkey ears? Crown? Maybe you want to make more than one and switch characters as we go along. 

You’re not restricted by what costume you pick at the start of the service, so go wild! But if you’re not feeling creative, you can never go wrong with a trusty tea towel!

Those who really don’t want to dress up are just as welcome.

Monday 21st December, 8pm (Online)

Longest Night Service

This service takes place on the evening of the longest night according to the calendar, the winter Equinox. From the 22nd December, the days begin getting longer once more, even if we won’t feel the difference for some time.

Traditionally, a Longest Night service acknowledges that Christmas can be a difficult season for some people. It’s not all tinsel, presents, and relentless cheerfulness, but can be a time of great darkness. That’s why it’s also sometimes called a ‘Blue Christmas’ service.

2020 has been an exceptionally difficult year for many people, so this service may be of some comfort. It will give us an opportunity to recognise the grieving of expectations for this year, loved ones, time lost, and hopes that evaporated in a cloud of pandemic. As well as acknowledging the hurt, we remember that in Christ, a light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Hope is inherent to our faith, because difficult times always come around, and we hope and trust in God that his promises to us are real and enduring.

So on the darkest and longest night of the year, we can offer the pain of the last few months to God, and reaffirm our trust that in God “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” (Julian of Norwich.)

Thursday, 24 December, 11:30pm (Online)

Midnight Communion

Join us as we prepare for the coming of God in Christ that first Christmas.

The service will end shortly after midnight.

Friday, 25 December, 10:30am (Online)

Christmas Day!

Join us for a short all-age celebration of Christmas Day.

Sunday, 27 December, 10:30am (Online)

Informal Service

Join us for a relaxed, casual, interactive time of worship.

For a bit of fun, why not come in your Christmas Pyjamas?!