Bakewell Parish Church is part of the Church of England and the Diocese of Derby, located in a beautiful market town in the heart of the Peak District. You can find opening times and how to find us here. Our church is dedicated to All Saints, and so as we gather together to worship and to serve our community, we are seeking to become God's holy people in the world. We offer refreshment and teaching to all who are trying to follow the way of Jesus Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Our services include a variety of styles, from the traditional to the not-so-traditional. Children are especially welcome at Fusion and  Tots & Teds. We are continuing to develop ways to serve our local community better. You can find out more about our faith, our history and all our activities on this site. Whether you join us at one of our forthcoming services or our other events, we look forward to welcoming you.

Usual service patterns changed owing to the Covid pandemic, however, please see below the red section below for up to date details of current services.

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Services

Thursdays at 9.30am - Eucharist

Sundays:-

9.00am  - Livestream Reflection and Prayer via Facebook Bakewell All Saints.                                                                                   Available to view later in the day here on the website  : Coming Services

10.30am  - Parish Eucharist at All Saints 

6.00pm - Evensong on 1st & 3rd Sundays

Except during December the service times are slightly different:-

Thursday 2nd - 9.30am Eucharist

Sunday 5th - 10.30am Parish Eucharist & 6.00pm Advent Carol Service

Thursday 9th - 9.30am Eucharist & 7.30pm Opening of the Christmas Tree Festival

Sunday 12th - 10.30am Parish Eucharist & 6.00pm Taize Service

Thursday 16th - 9.30am Eucharist

Sunday 19th - 10.30am Parish Eucharist & 6.00pm Carol Service

Thursday 23rd - 9.30am Eucharist

Friday 24th - 4.00pm Crib Service & 11.30pm Midnight Mass

Saturday 25th - 10.30am Parish Eucharist

Sunday 26th - 10.00am Benefice Eucharist

Thursday 30th - NO Eucharist

Sunday 2nd January - 10.00am Benefice Eucharist at Rowsley St Katherine

Then usual service times from 6 January onwards, except: Sunday 30 January - 10.00am Benefice Eucharist at Over Haddon

No Evensong during December & 2 January, resumes on 16 January

Regarding Covid, at All Saints, we would still encourage you to sanitise your hands as you enter church. We would recommend that you wear a face covering when you move around the church building if you feel that this is the right thing for you.

For Services we have adopted a Traffic Light System.  RED AREA PEWS are where social distancing of two metres is observed and mask wearing during Services (your service books will be the pew already). AMBER AREA PEWS are where there is no social distancing and mask wearing is voluntary. The Sharing of the Peace would not be by touch with another person. You will collect your service books as you enter church. It is possible to collect a card on entry that says you would prefer that somebody does not sit next to you. GREEN AREA PEWS are where there is no distancing, mask wearing and people are happy to share the peace by touch. These areas are clearly marked and we ask that you respect each of the sections once you have chosen your area. 

During the distribution of Holy Communion the Sidespeople will guide you. You have a choice as to whether you wish to wear a mask or not as you move. There is an option, if you wanted to, to receive the consecrated wine by intincting (dipping the tip of the consecrated host into the chalice, whilst not touching the wine with your finger).  If you wish to receive in one kind, then please feel under no pressure to not do so and simply return to your seat after receiving the host. 

Refreshments - These are served after the service in the Newark and all are welcome.

Leaving Church- please leave church by whichever door you would prefer, remembering there is a back door for entry and exit which has no steps.

The church toilets are open and we ask you to wipe the seat after use.

Church is open daily for visitors and prayer: 9.00am - 4.00pm

Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms- we are delighted that we can once again welcome parties of any number according to the capacity of the church building (which is 200+ for All Saints) and the Parish Clergy will be able to advise you on this. The wearing of face coverings is optional and we would ask those arranging Services to be mindful during the next two or three months of vulnerable or anxious guests and to be prepared to ensure that their anxieties are met through arranging seating and reassuring them that they can wear masks and be seated away from other people if necessary. 

Every Wednesday morning                                                                                                                                                                            All Saints Wednesday Women’s Home Group.  Please contact Jane Proctor 01629 258911 for Zoom details

For full details of the Christmas Tree Festival this year, click on the link: ***Christmas Tree Festival 2021***

All Saints church proposed re-ordering  As part of a consultation to explain why the proposal and to elicit comment, please find the leaflet here: Re-Ordering.pdf 

Living in Love and Faith is a Church of England initiative to encourage engagement across the whole church with Christian teaching about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage - with resources designed to encourage and enable engagement and learning in a variety of settings.  This church-wide learning together, listening to one another, and listening to God is part of discerning a way forward for the Church of England in relation questions about blessing same sex couples and requests to offer the Sacrament of Marriage. The Church of England is keenly aware that issues of gender and sexuality are intrinsic to people’s experience; their sense of identity; their lives and the loving relationships that shape and sustain them.  We also know that the life and mission of the Church are affected by the deep, and sometimes painful, disagreements which have been debated and discussed on many occasions over the years.  The Church wants to understand what it means to follow Christ in love and faith given the questions about human identity and the variety of patterns of relationship emerging in our society, including marriage, civil partnership, cohabitation, celibacy and friendship. The LLF resources explore these matters by studying what the Bible, theology, history and the social and biological sciences have to say, and by telling the real-life stories of followers of Christ with diverse experiences and convictions.  There will be 6-8 courses running across the Deanery post Christmas with trained facilitators, with a mixture for the 5 sessions being zoom and in-person meetings, the latter at a spread of locations from the North to the South East of the Peak Deanery area. Get in touch with Nicola.curate@outlook.com if you are interested and she will let you know when dates/ times/locations are finalised nearer the time.  Do look at the website www.churchofengland.org/ resources/living-love-and-faith for further information and resources. We will be looking at the material within the parish, but you might want to consider joining one of the Deanery groups when they are announced.

Giving

During this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic, funds are still necessary to maintain the church buildings.  Bakewell Parish Church does not receive funds from any other sources except donations.  These are the ways you can donate towards the work and ministry of Bakewell Parish Church:-

You can transfer any amount to the account All Saints: Bakewell PCC, account no. 80656048, sort code 60-01-33,                           (Reference: your name).  

Or post a cheque (payable to: Bakewell Parish Church PCC) to Revd Canon Tony Kaunhoven, The Vicarage, South Church Street, Bakewell  DE45 1FD.  

If you are a taxpayer please indicate this and your name and address when you make your donation.  This allows the church to re-claim the tax that you have paid on your donation and will increase your donation by 25%.   

OR - click on the link below for an easy, secure way to make a donation:-

https://givealittle.co/campaigns/7c988020-d96e-4777-90b9-b72550d98834

 Thank You

ORGAN APPEAL - TO READ ABOUT ALL SAINTS ORGAN APPEAL, CLICK HERE: ALL SAINTS ORGAN APPEAL.pdf

~THANK YOU~

BAKEWELL PARISH CHURCH 100 CLUB - CURRENTLY RAISING MONEY FOR THE ORGAN RESTORATION                             CLICK HERE FOR PRIZE FUND DETAILS: 100 club prize fund.pdf

Daily Hope – 0800 804 8044 The free phone line of hymns, reflections and prayers

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a free national phone line as a simple new way to
bring worship and prayer into people’s homes while church buildings are closed. This is
particularly aimed at the more than 3 million people (many over the age of 75yrs) who do not have
regular access to internet services.
Daily Hope offers music, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church
of England at the end of a telephone line – 24 hours a day.
Please pass this information on to anyone who may benefit.

5 December   Second Sunday of Advent

The Collect

O Lord, raise up, we pray, your power and come among us,
and with great might succour us;
that whereas, through our sins and wickedness we are grievously hindered
in running the race that is set before us,
your bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen. 

First Reading Baruch 5.1-9 

Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem,
and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.
Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God;
put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting;
for God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven.
For God will give you evermore the name, Righteous Peace, Godly Glory’.
Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height;
look towards the east,
and see your children gathered from west and east
at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
For they went out from you on foot, led away by their enemies;
but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne.
For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low
and the valleys filled up, to make level ground,
so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.
The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command.
For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory,
with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.

Gospel Reading Luke 3.1-6

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth;
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”’

Prayer after Communion

Father in heaven, who sent your Son to redeem the world and will send him again to be our judge:
give us grace so to imitate him in the humility and purity of his first coming
that, when he comes again, we may be ready to greet him with joyful love and firm faith;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Please remember in your prayers: 

The Community: For all who live or work locally 

The Sick: David, Bill Bryant, Roy Sherratt, George Foxlow, David Glencross, Sue Marsh

The Departed:  Valerie Janet Skidmore, Derek Hayes

If you would like anyone to be prayed for, please contact Canon Tony with their name(s)  Email: jazzyrector@aol.com

Thy Kingdom Come pledge:- Please pray for five of your family, friends and neighbours to know the presence of God’s Love in their lives. 

For access to the Emergency Prayer Chain or to activate the Pastoral Care Team 

please contact Revd Brenda Jackson – 01629 813143 / 07340 506749

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SAFEGUARDING link https://derby.anglican.org/en/safeguarding.html

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PCR2 

As part of the process of rooting out and dealing with all cases of abuse, past and present in the C of E, the Church is undertaking a review, Past Cases Review 2, into all records and reports held by Parishes, to make sure that all cases have been properly dealt with. For some churches this will be a longer process than for others.

Individual survivors who wish to make representations to the PCR2 process in the Derby Diocese or who need to come forward with information or make any disclosures regarding church related abuse are encouraged to make direct contact with the Safeguarding Team 01332 388678. 

However, recognising that this may not feel safe for those with experience of abuse from within the church, a dedicated national helpline - 0800 80 20 20 - operated independently from the church, by the NSPCC, was set up in September 2019 and remains available.

Survivors and victims can use the helpline to provide information or to raise concerns regarding abuse within the Church of England context; whether they are reporting issues relating to children, adults or seeking to whistle blow about poor safeguarding practice. 

Survivors were not invited to contribute to the 2007-2009 PCR and the Church has wanted to ensure a different, trauma informed approach is taken by PCR2.  Listening to survivor voices has helped to shape how this review will be conducted. 

We hope that this will be part of ensuring that the Church is a safe environment for all.

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