Support your local community with a visit to the Christmas Tree Festival; celebrate Jesus as the Light of the World at our Christingle service (the service with the orange); rediscover old favourites at our carol service; come along as a family to celebrate Christmas at one of our two Crib services (lots of dress-up activity for children); or spend time in traditional reflection and worship at our Christmas Holy Communion services.

We have something for everyone – check our events page for more details or click on the attached poster, above.

We thought it would be nice to share these so that anyone home schooling and not at the National Primary could access them.

This weeks worship is based on the values of Courage and Perseverance and the story of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane.

Lovely carols, lots of dads with towels on their heads for shepherd costumes and everyone enjoying the wonder of the Greatest Story Ever Told.

If you didn’t make it this year – come along in 2016 and enjoy the fun!

A large, wall-mounted panel presents an activity-based challenge relating to the main themes of our heritage, from ‘Sandy the squirrel’. This is supported by five, life-sized character displays that bring the people behind our main themes (Jesus, Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace, CE Kempe and Ben Caunt), to life for younger visitors. All displays feature a fun activity and are the perfect support for school or family visits.

Ask one of our church stewards for a ‘Sandy’s Church Safari’ activity sheet when you visit – there’s a chocolate treat reward for anyone taking Sandy’s challenge!

Curate James Pacey led the Christingle building activity and with almost military planning, hundreds of oranges, candles, red ribbons, cocktail sticks and little marshmallow sweets, were assembled by the congregation, between the singing of beautiful carols.

Once the Christingles were ready, the church lights were dimmed and the candles lit, creating a wonderful, festive atmosphere throughout the church.

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), we have recently been fortunate to receive a substantial grant to help with restoration of the fabric of the church and also to better interpret the church and its associated heritage for visitors.

The first stage of this new interpretation are a church-wide collection of heritage displays which chart the history of St Mary Magdalene church through the ages, associated Hucknall-born famous people and some of the events which have helped shape the town.

Shortly, a collection of supporting literature in the form of tour guides will be available to help visitors explore the church and its world-renowned heritage.

For further information, check out the heritage pages of this website where PDF versions of the tour guides can also be downloaded.