Life events
All Baptims, Weddings and Funerals can now go ahead without additional Government restrictions.
Please get in touch with the Rector to make a booking or enquiry.
FEES for 'Occasional Offices'.
Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals are known as Occasional Offices. Weddings and Funerals have statutory fees attached to them. set annually by Parliamant. In addition, the parish needs to recover some of the cost of putting on an extra service. So we ask for 'Parish Extra Fees' to be paid for these facilities.
We like Baptisms to take place during our regular worship so there is normally no need to make a charge, but for privately arranged services it is helpful if we receive a contribution toward church expenses.
The latest Statutory Fees can be found HERE
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Parish Extras Fee |
2021-2022 £ |
|
Organist |
110 |
|
Verger |
25 |
|
Heating |
70 |
|
Travel |
30 |
|
Total |
235 |
|
Bells Anstey, Brent Pelham or Hormead only. (Fee payable directly to bell ringers) £20 per bell, plus £20. |
6 bells |
Life Events
The church is with you at every stage of life. The continual cycle of life form birth through to death is marked by what are known as the Occasional Offices: Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. To find out more about these specifically, please follow the links in the menu bar. You can also find all sorts of helpful information on the Life Events section of the Church of England website.
You may be interested to know that the church also helps and supports each of us in between these major steps. Coming of age can be marked by Confirmation, where an individual declares for themselves the promises made on their behalf at baptism. New Christians who are adults will want to mark their membership with adult baptism and confirmation.
Married life can be challenging and the church works hard to encourage loving and lasting relationships, to provide a place for harmony and can provide services that mark a reconciliation. Believe it or not, most marriages do last, often for many decades. The church is there to celebrate with couples and can mark the occasion with services of renewal of vows and rededication. But we are also there when marriages break-down and do what we can to prayerfully support couples through difficult times.
The home and places of learning and work are also important to us. And the church can be in those places too. We will bless homes and offices. In this benefice we support a church and a state primary school in corporate worship and learning about faith.
There is no substitute for human contact. So we do our very best to encourage people to come together in fellowship as often as possible, when we are allowed and it's safe to do so. Our regular services in the benefice on Sundays and Wednesdays build-up and sustain Christians in their faith and to meet and share that faith with others. We also run study groups from time to time and will arrange home visits on request.
Contact
The Vicarage
Great Hormead
Buntingford
Hertfordshire
SG9 0NT
01763 289258