This Week's News: 21st December 2025
This week's church news from St Mary Magdalene, Welwyn Garden City! Christmas week is here – Nine Lessons & Carols, Midnight Mass and Christmas Day.
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Tuesdays 11am – 1pm · Parish Centre, Hall Grove
Refreshments, friendly faces, and companionship. A warm welcome awaits everyone.
Nine Lessons & Carols – Sunday 21st December, 6pm A traditional candlelight service with the carols you know and love, joined by members of the WGC Male Voice Choir, followed by mulled wine and mince pies.
Nativity Service – Wednesday 24th December, 3pm* The Nativity story told in an imaginative way, with a special visit from Father Christmas with treats for boys and girls of every age.
Midnight Mass – Wednesday 24th December, 11:15pm A traditional Holy Communion service, welcoming in Christmas Day.
Christmas Day Family Service – Thursday 25th December, 10am* A service for all the family, celebrating the joy of Christmas Day.
Children are welcome at every service; those marked * are especially suitable.
To help us grow our congregation and its mission and ministry in Welwyn Garden City, Kate Lomax (Diocesan Church Growth Officer) will lead us in a mission morning. We will gather to discern our vision for what we would love our church to be like in the future. These reflections will help Ryan and the PCC work out what the worship, mission and ministry of the church should look like in its next chapter.
Everyone in the congregation is warmly invited. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. To register, please email ryan@st-mary-magdalene.org.uk.
Jacqui will be stepping back from managing lettings for our Parish Centre and Upper Hall at Christmas, after many years of much-appreciated service. We are looking for a member of our community to take over this voluntary role:
To learn more about the role, please email jacqui.dickens@virginmedia.com. If you're interested in volunteering, please email ryan@st-mary-magdalene.org.uk.
New Zion Christian Fellowship food bank is open every Wednesday 9-11am. You may drop items in from 8am on Wednesdays at 140 Cole Green Lane AL7 3JE. Please use the food bank based at the back of church if you wish to give items.
Items that are particularly in need currently are:
Heather, Martin, Penny, Craig, Mark, Peter, Anna, Azizeh, Victoria, Naomi, Lorna.
Robert Godfrey.
God of Mission, Who alone brings growth to your Church of St Mary Magdalene, Send your Holy Spirit to give Vision to our planning, Wisdom to our actions, And power to our witness. Help our church to grow in numbers, In spiritual commitment to you, And in service to our local community, Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
If you would like to request that we pray as a church for someone known to you, please first make every attempt to ensure that they would like to be prayed for by those at St Mary Magdalene. We will be conducting a monthly review of our Prayer List. If there is anyone who should come off the list or go on the list, please notify the churchwardens, Nick and Godfrey.
This week's church news from St Mary Magdalene, Welwyn Garden City! Christmas week is here – Nine Lessons & Carols, Midnight Mass and Christmas Day.
Advent 3 at St Mary Magdalene WGC – mince pie donations welcomed for next Sunday's Nine Lessons & Carols service.
Advent 2 at St Mary Magdalene WGC: All-Age Communion this Sunday and the WGC Town Council consultation closing 14th December.
Advent Sunday at St Mary Magdalene WGC, with sign-ups closing soon for our January Parish Mission Morning.
Christmas services 2025 announced at St Mary Magdalene Welwyn Garden City, plus we welcome a new family to the vicarage.
Remembrance Sunday at St Mary Magdalene: morning Eucharist, our 3pm Act of Remembrance at the war memorial, plus Quiz Night this Saturday.
This week at St Mary Magdalene: our All Souls service is today at 3pm, with Remembrance Sunday and Quiz Night both coming up.
This week at St Mary Magdalene: the Hot Chocolate Hallowe'en Evening is this Friday at 5pm, plus All Souls and Remembrance coming up.