to our vibrant Christian community
including our on-line streamed worship Church without walls
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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.
From Holbrook Magazine February 2025
We host a variety of events from rock and folk concerts
through to outdoor activities and installations
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 
Sunday 16th March
Lent 2
St Peter's 10.00 am Relaxed Worship
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:
Almighty God,
by the prayer and discipine. of Lent
may we enter into the mystery of Christ's sufferings,
and by following in his Way
come to share in his glory;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Church Without Walls
On-line streamed (and on-demand) worship
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
The Annual Smiles Container Challenge started on Sunday 2nd March
Deadline for contributions 31st March
Come and explore the Beatitudes of Jesus with others on the Christian journey
There will be five 90 minute sessions, weekly in St Peter’s West end
Tuesday 11 March – Tuesday 15 April (not 1 April)
10.00-11.30 am or 7.30-9.00 pm
Choose the time that suits you each week.
More details from: Philip Waller (philtwaller@gmail.com 07552929393)
Also at St Mark's, Mondays at 2.00 pm, or Wednesdays at 2.00 pm and 7.30 pm. For more details, contact: John Walker (john@cardfish.me.uk 07815 785752)
Booklets with 40 daily reflections on the themes of the Beatitudes are also available for use in Lent instead of, or alongside, the group studies. Pick up a booklet in any of the churches in the parish, free of charge – though a £3 donation wouldn’t go amiss to cover the cost!
Booking forms available in all three churches
Ways to keep in touch
'Three in One' is the Parish magazine
'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.
Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter ENFOLD
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 
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.
Board Games Afternoons at St Peter’s 2nd Monday monthly
from 2 pm but not in April, see you in May.
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 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 meat and chicken, eg mince, Curries, Meatballs, Tinned chilli/curry, Tinned fruit, Tinned fish,
Sponge puddings and custard, Rice pudding, Tea and coffee, UHT milk,
Washing liquid for clothes and dishes, Toilet rolls – 2 roll packs, Sanitary items, Toiletries – single toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, 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.