Christmas 2020 - with a difference but underpinned by a certainty
Welcome to Christmas at St Mary the Virgin, Riverhead with Dunton Green. Christmas may be a little different this year but you can be assured that, as ever, we'd love to have your company during this most wonderful time of the year.
Our Christmas message can be found here (link).
Services - We have planned a number of services and details can be found below. Please be aware that these are subject to late alteration due to changes in Government regulations during the Covid-19 pandemic so please keep checking our website for the latest news.
Our Christmas Tree Festival has gone online this year and details can be found below.
Here is our latest Newsletter.
Appointments Update (22.11.2020: It has just been announced that two new Team Vicars have been appointed to our West Sevenoaks Team Ministry. You can read the announcement by following this link.
Our contact details can be found below.
(Virtual) Christmas Tree Festival 2020
A very warm welcome to a different St Mary’s Christmas Tree Festival this year! It's our 10th Festival and it's online because of the current Covid-19 situation. To find out more, please visit our special website. You can contribute a photograph of your own Christmas tree or, in due course, view all the photographs of all the Christmas trees.
Christmas Services
These are our current plans - please keep checking our website for any changes. Services marked *T are by ticket only - booking details are below. Zoom login details are also below:
| Sun, 22 Nov | 9:15am | On Zoom | Parish Eucharist |
| Sun, 29 Nov | 9:15am | On Zoom | Parish Eucharist |
| Sun, 6 Dec | 8:00am | In Church | BCP Holy Communion |
| 9:15am | In Church | Family Service | |
| Sun, 13 Dec | 8:00am | In Church | BCP Holy Communion |
| 9:15am | In Church | Parish Eucharist | |
| 3:00pm | On Zoom | Carol Service | |
| Sun, 20 Dec | 8:00am | In Church | BCP Holy Communion |
| 9:15am *T | In Church | Family Service, to include Sunday Club nativity and assembling the crib |
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| 7:00pm | On Zoom | Nine Lessons and Carols, followed by a Christmas tipple and mince pie party |
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| Thur, 24 Dec | 4:00pm | On Zoom | Christingle - to include making Christingles; you'll need an orange, red ribbon, candle and foil, sweets/dried fruit and 4 cocktail sticks |
| 11:30pm | On Zoom | Midnight Mass | |
| Fri, 25 Dec | 9:15am *T | In Church | Christmas Day Communion Service |
| Sun, 27 Dec | 11:00am | In Church | Parish Eucharist |
| Fri, 1 Jan | 11:00am | On Zoom | New Year's Day Service |
Zoom login: 616 146 1466 with Passcode: Christmas
*T = ticket required; To book a place, please call Colin Butson on: 
We will be holding our usual Zoom Compline Service on Wednesdays at 8:00pm, and our Zoom coffee morning on Thursdays at 11:00am. The usual Zoom login and password applies rather than the Christmas one - please contact Daphne Harrison for details.
Contact us
Daphne Harrison, Licensed Lay Minister: 
Alison Bull, Churchwarden: 
Rachel Wigley, Churchwarden: 
For contact details for Baptisms, Funerals, Weddings, Sunday Club and Bible Study group please follow this link.
Team Rector Communication
Our new Team Rector, Revd Mark Bridgen, invites everyone to complete an online form so that people can provide their ideas and suggestions in order to help formulate the way forward for the new Team Ministry. Please follow this link to the 'Reflecting and Suggesting' exercise. Responses would be appreciated by 15 December please.
Please don't forget donations of non-perishable food are urgently required every week, as part of our support for the Community Food Bank. Contributions can be left in the basket at the back of the Church, or via Margaret Holman.