St Mary's Church Hemel Hempstead

I may pray that God would be generous toward me in the way that I’m generous toward others, and one of the most helpful things I’ve found in praying this way is that it reminds me again and again just how freely God showers blessings. I acknowledge the poverty of my own expectations, and God astonishes me with mercy — giving me not only the daily bread I need, but a renewed vision of a world in which bless one another as freely with all we have to offer as God blesses us.

As Jesus teaches us to pray, with our lives as well as our lips, we are invited to see the world as Jesus sees — the world’s wounds as opportunity for healing and reconciliation, the world’s needs as opportunity to experience God’s generosity afresh by participating in its expression toward the poor, a account of deserving as a measure of just how much God’s love exceeds such reckoning.
Sarah Dylan Breuer

As a Christian community we have three main concerns.

We seek to be a company of people who are nurturing faith. This faith is rooted in the good news of God revealed in Jesus Christ and is expressed and strengthened in worship, in learning together and in fellowship. You will find details of our worship services and our home groups programme on other pages of this website.

We also set out to use our historic building as a resource for the whole community. It lends itself to cultural events, music, drama, exhibitions and is a fascinating visual aid for school pupils to use in pursuit of many aspects of the national curriculum. In all these ways we seek to play our part in sustaining the human spirit. Again, look through other pages for details of how you might be involved in these aspects of our life.

Believing that faith must lead to action, our third concern is to be serving the community. We do this in various ways. Members of St Mary’s through their own jobs and their social involvement are sharing in this service. The church community itself has a ministry among young families and vulnerable people and we are always looking for new ways of putting faith into action. Why not come and join us?
Why not join the choir or the bellringers?

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For further information about St Mary's and our life of worship, witness and service talk with one of the clergy or welcome team after the service or, during the week, contact one of the churchwardens Leslie Crossley 264647 or Emmeline Lambert 268705..

The Church Nave

Welcome to the website of St Mary’s Church, Hemel Hempstead, The Parish of St Mary and St Paul. We are part of the wider church scene in the town, details of which can be found on the website of Churches Together in Hemel Hempstead http://www.hemelchurches.org.uk

St Mary’s Church stands at the heart of the Old Town of Hemel Hempstead, just off the High Street. Its tall and elegant spire makes it unmistakable. It has been a place of worship for over eight hundred and fifty years and provides a real focus as a centre of spirituality and history in a town most of whose history goes back barely fifty years.

An outsde view of St Mary's Church from the East End

The Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary and St Paul,Hemel Hempstead, Reg. Charity 1130644

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