Our Services

Whether you are a regular member of our congregations or a visitor, a warm welcome awaits you at all our services and events.

Café Church

Café Church is a more informal type of service, held in St Michael’s, Reepham on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. Tea, coffee and pastries are served from 10am before the service starts at 10.30am. With singing and music and a chance to worship informally whilst sitting at tables with friends and neighbours, Café Church is a very popular service within the benefice. Younger members of the congregation are also welcome to attend.

Evening Prayer

Evening prayer is held on Thursdays at 5pm in St Michael’s Chancel, Reepham.  We follow the Church of England Daily Prayer, click this link Daily Prayer app to download an app.  (If you would like to follow the Church of England Common Worship Daily Prayer rhythms and cannot access the app you can listen to a podcast and hear Morning and Evening Prayer in full, details can be found by clicking here

Holy Communion / Holy Communion (BCP)*

Holy Communion (or Eucharist) is at the heart of our worship and church life together.  For many it is the main “traditional Sunday Service” where the congregation meet to ask God’s forgiveness for its sins, listen to readings from the Bible, including one from the gospels, sing hymns and pray together. Both CW and BCP* services have service sheets with words in bold where the congregation are invited to join in. Often there will be a sermon as well as news and notices from across the benefice.  At our Holy Communion services bread and wine are brought to the Altar to be blessed with a Eucharistic Prayer of thanksgiving by the president after which we say the Lord’s Prayer together. The congregation is then invited to the Altar to share the consecrated bread and wine or receive a blessing.

After the service, the congregation meet for light refreshments. The service is generally about one hour, however services earlier in the morning tend to be around 45 minutes. As with all our services, everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be confirmed or receive communion to attend.

*BCP refers to Book of Common Prayer (1662) which remains the only permanently authorised liturgical resource of the Church of England. It has a more traditional tone and is loved for the beauty of its language. This text is used for BCP services.    Other Holy Communion services use Common Worship (CW) which is written in a more modern and diverse language and seeks to draw together the best of modern liturgy and the tradition of worship stemming back to the Book of Common Prayer.

Morning Prayer / Matins (Sundays)

Our Sunday Morning Prayer or Matins is a traditional service of around 40 minutes.