St Peter's Parish, Belper, Derbyshire

Jesus at the centre transforming our community

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to our vibrant Christian community
including our on-line streamed worship Church without walls    

St Peter's

 St Mark's

St Swithun's

      St Peters summer pic

St Marks summer pic

    St Swithuns summer pic  

 

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.


concerts and events

We host a variety of events from rock and folk concerts 

through to outdoor activities and installations

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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        Fair Trade logoEco Church Gold Badge


Sunday 15th December

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 St Peter's       10.00 am      Relaxed Worship Nativity

St Mark's       10.00 am     Morning Worship & Sunday Club

 St Swithun's        11.00 am        Holy Communion


     The Church's Special Prayer for this week: 

  God for whom we watch and wait,

you sent John the Baptist to prepare the way of your Son:

                   give us courage to speak the truth, to hunger for justice,

           and to suffer for the cause of right,with Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


On-linestreamed (and on-demand) worship

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Our 'Church Without Walls' page has details of our on-line worship services.


 

     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  


                                                   

                                                                   Xmas Day Lunch 24


Secret Cinema 24

A date for yours and your children's diaries this December!

Collect your free tickets from St Peter's Parish Office in St Peter's Church.


Secret Cinema 29 Dec 24


                                                                            New Year Plant hunt St P 24

Naamahs Story


 Burns Night 25


Parish logo colouredWays to keep in touch


'Three in One' is the Parish magazine

View the December issue


'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.

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Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter ENFOLD

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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  Paypal logo                           


kids are welcome

     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.coffee cup


Board Games Afternoons at St Peter’s 2nd Monday monthly

        from 2 pm      (Next session Monday 13th 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

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.