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 Vicar and 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 contact Father Rodney on 01580 754459 or Claire Roberts on 01580 754374.

Public Worship

We will be offering the Sunday service of spiritual communion on Zoom from the Church at 10am.

Please do take note that the details for connecting to the Zoom service for  the Sunday 10am morning and the Wednesday 6:00pm evening service are the same :

  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4572440784?pwd=Yjgwc2pUd1ZPSkpyT3E4UVBsNS9HQT09
  • Meeting ID: 457 244 0784
  • Passcode: 5i1UCa

Our Latest Posts

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

We are creating a wildlife haven at St Laurence Church with a view to encouraging wildflowers, insects and birds. We are keen to make this a project in which the whole village can take part if they wish. If you would like to help in any way or know somebody that may be interested,  please join us for coffee, cake and planting on Saturday 22nd March from 10am onwards.

We will be celebrating World Day of Prayer 2025 on Friday 7 March at the Baptist Church. Christians from the Cook Islands have devised the service this year and it promises to be a colourful and uplifting time of worship.

You are cordially invited to join us from 11.45 for a light lunch (soup and a roll) before the service which will begin at 1.00pm. We aim to finish around 2.00pm, so that anyone collecting children from school is able to do so.

Service Details

20.04.25 Service

Easter Sunday ...

17.04.25 Procession

Good Friday Service and Walk of Witness St. Barnabas Church 11.30 AM ...

18.04.25 Service

Liturgy of Good Friday with Veneration of the Cross ...

17.04.25 Service

Maunday Thursday ...

13.04.25 Service

Palm Sunday ...

06.04.25 Service

The Fifth Sunday of Lent ...

Notices

The challenges to the Church today
16th. November, 2024 . A talk given by Bishop John Hinds at the Parish Breakfast at St, Laurence Church, Hawkhurst. The challenges to the Church today Well it’s a bit of mess isn’t it? We must try not to be ...

World Day of Prayer 2024 – Women of Palestine
World Day of Prayer 2024 Women of Palestine ‘I beg you, bear with one another in love’ Ephesians 4: 1-6 Thank you for the invitation to speak at this year’s World Day of Prayer. This is a special day for ...

Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day 14.02.2024 – Reflections by Mary Tanner
Readings: Joel 2.1-2 and 12-17; Matthew 6. 1-6 and 16 – 21 or John 8.1-11 Some days ago I was leaving one of our supermarkets and turned back to look into the shop at the large poster which announced, ‘February ...

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Contact Info

  • 01580 753397
  • office@stlaurence.co.uk
  • https://www.stlaurencechurch-hawkhurst.org/
  • St Laurence Church, The Moor, Hawkhurst,Kent. TN18 4NT UK
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