A warm welcome to the St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst website.

We are a friendly, welcoming congregation. St Laurence is part of the Weald Deanery and Diocese of Canterbury.

The people of St. Laurence, Hawkhurst invite you to experience Christianity as a way of life, not just a set of creeds and doctrines demanding agreement. We invite you to join us as we seek to discover and recover the meaning of the gospel for our time, looking to the Sacraments, Scripture, Faith, Reason and Music — interpreted by love.

At St. Laurence we believe that what Jesus teaches and reveals to us about God is equally as important as what the Church through the ages has taught us about Jesus. We believe in the freedom of conscience, the responsibility of every believer to work out his or her own salvation in response to the grace of God, and the obligation of faithful men and women to become partners with God in building the kingdom.

We take the Sacraments and Holy Scriptures seriously and believe that in our time the Church must recover, above all, and in line with the Church’s teaching and practise, its radical hospitality — welcoming all persons into her midst as they are.

A warm welcome to the St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst website.

The 10am Sunday service is also being relayed on zoom and the details of this are available on the church website.

The church remains open for private prayer daily from 11am – 3pm.

If you need access outside these hours please see below -

Update January 2026

Following the retirement of the Vicar, the Reverend Canon Rodney Dreyer, the Parish of St. Laurence Hawkhurst is currently in a vacancy.

If you have any enquiries please contact the Churchwardens whose contact details are below:
Claire Roberts: 01580 754374 or 07872 171535
Liz Hatcher: 01580 712099 or 07843 098858

Public Worship

From the 3rd of August 2025, we will be offering the Sunday service of spiritual communion as a live Streaming event on our YouTube channel from the Church at 10am.

https://www.youtube.com/@StLaurenceChurchHawkhurst

A Prayer for those joining us on You Tube who are making their Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above `all things and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

The Wednesday 6:00pm evening service will continue via Zoom :

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4572440784?pwd=Yjgwc2pUd1ZPSkpyT3E4UVBsNS9HQT09
Meeting ID: 880 4785 4233
Passcode: 798527

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Here is a summary of the information posted on our website within the last 7 days.

Find us on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/StLaurenceChurchHawkhurst

We are extremely overwhelmed and profoundly grateful to you for your very
generous farewell gift to us, as well as for the individual gifts received. Thank you
also for all your Farewell and Christmas cards, too numerous to reply to
individually. We appreciate and are grateful for the beautiful sentiments expressed,
and all so carefully collated in the gift folder. The beautiful painting of St Laurence
Church building will be hung in our new home as a lovely reminder of our time in
Hawkhurst. Thank you, we appreciate all of this very much, and assure you all your
respective gifts will all be treasured and well used.
All the people of the Parish have been and will always remain very special to us. We
will miss you all very very much.
You will be very welcome to stop by on your way to holiday in the South West.

We will continue to hold you all in prayer in the coming months as the Parish enters
a new phase in its life and ministry, and we will appreciate your prayers for us.
Much love and prayers
Fr Rodney and Sandra Dreyer

Please note that the Sunday morning Eucharist Service will now be streamed on our YouTube Channel and will not be available on Zoom.

Services on YouTube will be available for one month from recording, after which they will be deleted.