Category Archives: Mission

Lent 2026

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and follows through to Palm Sunday. It is a season of depth and richness as we reflect on those things we have done wrong and call to God for forgiveness.

Lent Appeal 2026

Acting on poverty, living in solidarity

Join us as we join with Christian Aid to help forge a world where everyone can live a full life, free of poverty. Our donations will make a difference to the lives of people across the globe (including the UK).

How to give:

  • Bring in cash on Sundays in envelopes labelled Lent Appeal 2026
  • Pay directly into the church Bank Account, with the reference Lent Appeal 2026
  • Make a card donation (speak to Chris Thomas)
  • Come along to the Lent Lunch on Passion Sunday 22 March and give (an additional?!) donation to the Lent Appeal 2026

Ash Wednesday – 18 February

10am Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes (in Church)
7:30pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes (in Oxhey Chapel)

Beginning the journey
‘turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ’
As the Season of Lent begins, we are marked again with the cross with which we were signed at our baptism – a reminder of both death to life and life in death.

Sunday Holy Communion Services

10am each Sunday

The Sunday Collects are the inspiration for Sunday sermons this year. Collects are the special prayers written for Sundays and special Feast Days. You’ll find them in a leaflet available in church – which also has the readings for the different Sundays. Look them up in advance, take time to pray and reflect with them and then compare what you come up with to the preacher on the Sunday!

Compline (Night Prayer)

9pm Monday evenings, online

Join this ancient and beautiful service to close the day.

Lent Groups

Thursdays at 11:30am (in church), and
Fridays at 8pm (house group, ask for venue details)

We’re using a Lent Course written especially for All Saints’ – relating to prayer and spirituality. Everyone is welcome to join us for either of the groups above.

World Day of Prayer – Friday 8 March

7:30pm at South Oxhey Baptist Church

World Day of Prayer is a women led, global, ecumenical movement. This year’s service is titled I will give you rest, come and has been prepared by the Christian women of Nigeria. This is a united service with the churches of South Oxhey and Carpenders Park and this year is hosted by the South Oxhey Baptist Church.

Mothering Sunday – 15 March

10.00am Holy Communion

We celebrate the ‘mothering’ offered by so many – mothers, others and all. Flowers are offered to all the adults present, and we share the traditional Mothering Sunday cake – Simnel Cake.

Passion Sunday – 22 March

10am Holy Communion

12 noon Lent Lunch

Raising funds for our Lent Charity – Christian Aid. With a simple lunch of homemade soup and bread, with cheese and fruit. Sign up in church (or just come along as there is usually plenty!).

Charity fundraising for 2026 and 2025 total

Each year we choose a number of charities to support and hold fundraising events throughout the year. The total raised is shared between the nominated charities. Fundraising events include our Table Top Sales.

We also have dedicated appeals throughout the year, such as Lent and Harvest, where we raise funds for specific causes.

Check out our Events page for details of our upcoming events and fundraisers.

Our Nominated Charities for 2026 are:

Local: 9 Lives Furniture

9 Lives Furniture are based in Rickmansworth and helping people who are disadvantaged, living with Learning Difficulties or mild Mental Health issues – as well as saving furniture from landfill.

Registered Charity No: 1096086

For more information, check out the website 9livesfurniture.org.uk

National: Safe Lives

Safe Lives are a national charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.

Registered charity No: 1106864

For more information, check out the website safelives.org.uk

International: Mercy Ships

Mercy Ships is an international faith-based international development organisation that deploys hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the world, delivering free healthcare

Registered charity No: 1053055

For more information, check out the website mercyships.org.uk

Lent Appeal 2026: Christian Aid

Our Lent Appeal this year will raise funds for Christian Aid

Join us as we join with Christian Aid to help forge a world where everyone can live a full life, free of poverty. Our donations will make a difference to the lives of people across the globe (including the UK).

Registered charity No: 1105851

For more information, check out the website christianaid.org.uk

Harvest Appeal 2026

Financial gifts To be confirmed.

Fundraising Total for 2025

We raised £2,471 for our nominated charities in 2025 which were:

  • Druglink – a substance misuse charity based in Hertfordshire
  • Mind – the national Mental Health Chairty working to everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect
  • The Associated Country Women of the World – a network that allows rural women to connect their voices

In addition, we had the following appeals during the year:

February 2026

Table Top Sale

Saturday 14 February 2026 from 10:30am to 12:30pm

Our Table Top Sales raise funds for our nominated charities for 2026.

Admission is free and there will be plenty of items for sale to suit everyone including gifts, homemade crafts, cards, plants, toys, books, etc.

Table-hire is only £6 (table provided). Speak to Jo or contact the events@allsaintschurch.uk for details.

Oxhey Chapel will be open.

Ash Wednesday

Wednesday 18 February at 9:30am and 7:30pm

Lent leads us towards the cross. As this penitential season begins we are marked with the cross with which we were signed at our baptism – a reminder of both death to life and life in death. The ash is made by burning the Palm Crosses which were blessed on Palm Sunday last year.

We will have two services: 9:30am (in church) and 7:30pm (in Oxhey Chapel). Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent and we really do warmly urge and encourage you to participate in the different activities and events that will be on offer.

Quiz Night

Saturday 28 February 2026 at 6pm

Cost £15 per person, teams of up to 8 – book by 25 Febrauary

Join us for a fun and relaxed quiz night including a two course hot meal. Teams of up to 8, but smaller groups or individuals welcome and we can out together teams on the evening.

Email bookings@allsaintschurch.uk to reserve your place.

Harvest 2025

Harvest Supper

Saturday 27 September at 6pm

This will have a South American Theme. Tickets £10. Invite your friends as we celebrate God’s bounty and raise funds for the work of Mission Direct.

Harvest Festival Service

Sunday 28 September at 10am

Led by The Rev’d Anne Lovegrove, this service gives us time to give thanks to God for the gift of creation. If you bring along physical gifts, we will do our best to find a home for them. We are concentrating on financial gifts to be given to the charity noted above.

All activities and collections this weekend are raising funds for the Bishop’s Harvest for the Hungry Appeal: Rewrite Their Future. The charity supports Mission Direct’s work to increase access to education, especially in some of the world’s most under-resourced communities. In Zambia and Uganda alone, Mission Direct will help over 2,945 children this year, of which 1,170 will be benefitting from new classrooms —and over the next 20 years, 23,400 children will gain access to education that would otherwise be out of reach.

For more information see the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal for Mission Direct.

What’s On September 2025

Holy Communion with guest preacher Rev’d Ricky Turner

Sunday 7 September at 10am

As part of celebrating 25 years of the ‘new’ church building, we will be joined by one of our former curates, Rev’d Ricky Turner, who was our curate between 2014 and 2017. Following the morning service we’ll have a Bring and Share Lunch.

Table Top Sale

Saturday 13 September 2025 from 10:30am to 12:30pm

Our Table Top Sales raise funds for our Missions.

Admission is free and there will be plenty of items for sale to suit everyone including gifts, homemade crafts, cards, plants, toys, books, etc.

Table-hire is only £6 (table provided). Speak to Jo or contact the events@allsaintschurch.uk for details.

Oxhey Chapel will be open.

History of South Oxhey and Cream Tea

with local historian Neil Hamilton

Sunday 14 September 2025 from 2:30pm

Tickets – £5 per person – includes Cream Tea, visit to Oxhey Chapel and a talk on the history of South Oxhey. Proceeds split between Churches Conservation Trust and All Saints’ Church.

Local Historian – Neil Hamilton – is giving a talk about the local area as part of the 25 Anniversary of the ‘new’ All Saints’ Church. A massive part of the funding for the new church came from the hard work and creativity of people in the local community.

Come along to find out more about this part of the parish of All Saint’, South Oxhey and Carpenders Park.

Book your ticket by emailing bookings@allsaintschurch.uk so we know how many scones to make for the Cream Tea.

Harvest Supper

Saturday 27 September at 6pm

Join us for our harvest supprt with a South American theme raising funds for the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal for Mission Direct.

Nominated Charities for 2025

Our Nominated Charities (Missions) for 2025 are:

Local: Druglink

Druglink is a substance misuse charity based in Hertfordshire. Their objective is to change the future for people who are, or could be, affected by substance misuse. They achieve this through Addiction Treatment, Housing Solutions, Education and Training.

Registered Charity No: 295384

For more information, check out the website: www.druglink.co.uk

National: MIND

Mind are The national Mental Health Chairty working to everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets support and respect. They work through direct support with individuals as well as by lobbying parliament.

Registered charity No: 219830

For more information, check out the website: www.mind.org.uk

International: Associated Country Women of the World

The Associated Country Women of the World is a network that allows rural women to connect their voices. We work to ensure the issues they face, and the solutions they raise, are heard and acknowledged by national and international policy-makers and legislators.

Registered charity No: 1174798

For more information, check out the website: acww.org.uk

Total raised in 2024

We raised £1,753 (provisional figure) for our Missions in 2024 which were:

In addition, we had the following appeals during the year:

Harvest 2024

Our Harvest Festival is Sunday 29 September – all are welcome.

There will be a special collection for Bishop of St Albans Harvest Appeal, The Leprosy Mission’s initiative Thrive: Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture in Sri Lanka. Specifically the appeal is supporting the project, Kaveri Kala Manram (KKM). A vital part of KKM’s work is making sure that families affected by leprosy have enough nutritious food to eat and the opportunity to grow enough fruit and vegetables to sell.

You can also bring along practical gifts for the South Oxhey Food Bank:

  • Tins of meats/meals/pies, Big Soup, sweetcorn, tuna, rice pudding
  • Microwave rice
  • Long life milk
  • Packets of Smash
  • Pot noodles
  • Porridge sachets
  • Kid’s lunchbox snacks
  • Squash
  • Angel Delight sachets
  • Cake making kits
  • Coffee, sugar

The evening before, Saturday 28 September, will be our Harvest Supper – with a Sri Lankan Theme. Tickets £7.50 for adults and £5 children (under 16). Advance booking essential, please email office@allsaintschurch.uk.

Lent 2024

Lent Appeal 2024

This Lent, All Saints’ will be supporting Christian Aid’s (CA) Middle East Crisis Appeal to provide aid in Gaza and Israel.

In Gaza, 23,357 Palestinians have been killed. In Israel, 1,200 people have been killed and civilians have been forcibly taken. Some have been released in a deal brokered by Qatar.

CA partners in Gaza are responding as best they can: building mobile bathrooms, providing mattresses, medicines, emergency food, shelter. CA is also actively exploring ways in which it might also support Israeli civilians who’ve been directly impacted by the violence.

Each of our donations can make a difference to the lives of those affected. Donations can be made in church throughout Lent.

Ash Wednesday – 14 February

10.00am Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes
7.30pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes

Beginning the journey
‘turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ’
Lent leads us towards the cross and as the Season begins we are marked with the cross with which we were signed at our baptism – a reminder of both death to life and life in death. The ash is made by burning the Palm Crosses which were blessed on Palm Sunday last year.

Watch and Pray

This booklet from the Church of England gives daily prompts as we consider the theme of waiting. Sign up in church to order a copy (£2.20). You can sign up for daily emails and download an App. Find out more here.

Sign-up in church to join a group and order a copy of the book (£9.59).

Lent Groups

Tuesdays at 7:30pm (in the Vicarage) starting 20 February,
Thursdays at 11.30am (in church) starting 16 February, and
Fridays at 8pm starting 9 February (house group)

We’re using the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book: Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith. From the cover we read, ‘Tarrying is a Black Christian spiritual practice in which believers actively wait to experience the manifestation of God’s presence. It answers yes to the question Jesus once asked his disciples: will you tarry here and watch with me? Tarry Awhile provides fresh reflections on familiar biblical passages, and draws on personal stories, theology and the spiritual wisdom of ancestors who have gone before us.’

Wednesday 28 February

7.30pm Songs for the Journey, The Vicarage

World Day of Prayer – Friday 1 March

7:30pm at Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Church

World Day of Prayer is a women led, global, ecumenical movement. This year’s service is titled I beg you, bear with one another in love and has been prepared by the Christian women of Palestine. This is a united service with the churches of South Oxhey and Carpenders Park and this year is hosted by the Methodist Church.

Mothering Sunday – 10 March

10.00am Holy Communion

Passion Sunday – 17 March 2024

10.00am Holy Communion

12 Noon Lent Lunch

Raising funds for our Lent Charity – Christian Aid – Middle East Crisis Fund. Sign up in church.

Missions (nominated charities) for 2023

Our Nominated Charities for 2023 are:

Five Talents

Registered Charity No: 1113969

For more information, check out the website: www.fivetalents.org.uk.

Motor Neuron Disease Association

Registered charity No: 294354

For more information, check out the website: www.mndassociation.org

RNLI

Registered charity No: 209603

For more information, check out the website: rnli.org

ASCEND

ASCEND is our very own Mission working right in the heart of our community. They’re all about moving people forward, challenging their perceived barriers to education and training; providing people with more choice and control over their lives. Thanks to ASCEND, many local people now have the confidence, self-esteem and skills to find a route to employment, some for the first time in their lives. ASCEND also works with young people aged 16 to 25 and has set up the Dig Deep Allotment Project with Farming for All CIC and Step Up with Herts Mind Network.

For more information, check out their website: www.ascend.org.uk

2022 Total

We raised £2,538 for our Missions in 2022 which were: