Welcome - The Quintet Churches

UPDATED 26th July 2024

Welcome to the website of the Quintet Churches - the five churches found in the basin area of the River Quin in East Hertfordshire.

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Sunday 28th July

Please note that ths week there is no service at
St Nicholas' Church

9.30am Holy Communion Service, Anstey

11.00am Family Service, Brent Pelham

6.00pm Evening Worship, Wyddial

Please also check our Service Times page for services during August and September HERE

Service on Sunday 4th August

9.30am Holy Communion, St Nicholas', Great Hormead.
Family Holy Communion with hymns and prayers led by Revd James Sawyer. Our preacher Mr James Wyld.

11.15am Family Service, St Giles', Wyddial.
Family service of hymns readings and prayers and an informative talk, led by our preacher and Lay Minister, Mr James Wyld.

6.00pm Evensong, St George's Anstey.
Traditional Evening Prayer, with hymns, readings and prayers and sermon led by Lay Minister, Mrs Patricia Hamilton.

Service on Sunday 11th August

9.30am Holy Communion by Extension, St Mary's, Meesden.
Family Holy Communion by extension, with hymns and prayers and a sermon by Lay Minister, Mrs Patricia Hamilton.

11.00am Family Service, St Nicholas', Great Hormead.
Family service of hymns readings and prayers and an informative talk, led by our preacher and Lay Minister, Mr James Wyld.

6.00pm Evensong, St Mary the Virgin, Brent Pelham.
Traditional Evening Prayer, with hymns, readings and prayers and sermon led by Lay Minister, Mr James Wyld.

Service on Sunday 18th August

9.30am Family Service, St Nicholas', Great Hormead.
Family service of hymns readings and prayers and a talk, led by our preacher and Lay Minister, Mr James Wyld.

11.00am Holy Communion by Extension, St George's, Anstey.
Family Holy Communion by extension, with hymns and prayers and a sermon by Lay Minister, Mrs Patricia Hamilton.

Please support Herts and Essex Country Fair (Horse and Dog Show) - The Park, Brent Pelham

6.00pm Family Evening Worship, St Giles', Wyddial.
An informal service with hymns and prayers and sermon led by Lay Minister, Dr Mike West.

Service on Sunday 25th August

9.30am Holy Communion, St Nicholas', Great Hormead.
Family Holy Communion with hymns and prayers led by Revd James Sawyer.

11.00am Festival Holy Communion, St Mary the Virgin, Brent Pelham.
Special Family Holy Communion to remember St Mary the Virgin, with hymns and prayers and a sermon led by Revd James Sawyer.

5.00pm A service for Healing and Wholeness, St Mary's, Meesden.
An informal reflective service of prayer and meditation with hymns and a short talk led by Lay Minister, Dr Mike West, with Revd James Sawyer. With opportunity for laying-on-of hands, anointing and personal prayer.

Service on Sunday 1st September
St Giles Festival Day

10.45am Procession thrugh Wyddial with banners and music from Moles Lane to St Giles Church.
11.00am Festival Holy Communion and family Baptism, St Giles Church, Wyddial. This is a service for all the benefice and we look forward to welcomig friends across the benefice to celebrate St Giles together and welcome new members into God's family.
After the service there will be some refreshment followed by a Barbecue lunch with hotdogs and burgers.
All are welcome. It will be particularly helpful for caterig to get an indication of numbers. Please EMAIL ME with your name and contact number and how many people will be in your group: CLICK HERE
Boules Competition. St Giles' was a French Mystic saint and there has bee a log tradition in Wyddial of having a regular Boules competition. So I'm bringing the two together and we will have a boules match near the church through the afteroon.
If you would like to enter please let me know. Some equipment will be available but if you own your own metal boules, you may bring them.
We plan to play tripples, there may be a singles match. There will be a children's game too. To enter please let me know your name, other team members names, and phone details HERE

If you have folding chairs, please bring them. Coming by car? if you are able, please park with care near the church along the road. We hope to have additional parking organised. It would be very helpful if you could offer lifts to older members of our cogregations across the benefice, or bring a neighbour or friend.

Our full services calendar can be found under Service Times

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The Quintet Churches are a group of five Anglican churches who work together and meet for worship in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside in the Diocese of St Albans. We are located just east of the market town of Buntingford and are part of the Buntingford Deanery.

Together we seek to serve our communities, worship God and live His values of love, peace and justice.

Christian have worshiped and ministered in this area for over 1,000 years. So it is our privilege to be the latest generation to continue the story of the body of Christ in our villages.

We are delighted you have found our website, we hope you enjoy browsing these pages, and to meet you in person soon.

The Ministry Team

P.S. Our website name quintetchurches.com references both the river Quin which flows in our midst and the quintet or five churches in our benefice (group of parishes).

If you would like to speak to a member of the ministry team, please call or email us. You can contact the Rector, James Sawyer on 01763 289 258, or email him via this link EMAIL. Please note, James's day of is normally Friday. Calls may be montitored and/or recorded for training and security purposes.

You can also contact Mrs Patricia Hamilton on 01763 848536 for parish matters and pastoral care.

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