All Saints Parish Church

All Saints Parish Church

All Saints’ Church (C of E) in the Diocese of St Albans, is one of Hertfordshire’s most beautiful ancient churches. It was founded in 1215 and many visitors are attracted to it throughout the year, not least to view the tomb of Edmund of Langley, the first Duke of York. However, despite its history, the church seeks to be a modern active church community in the 21st century. It currently has a Mission Action Plan (MAP), focusing on - deepening the spirituality of the congregation, developing its work with children and families, fundraising for church and community, working with community organisations in promoting services for older people and raising awareness of poverty, justice and peace issues. The liturgical tradition is inclusive liberal catholic and a local ministry team is developing the church’s welcome ministry.

Our usual Sunday service is the 9.30am Family Eucharist with Sunday School but, on the third Sunday of the month, we have an All Age Eucharist at 9.30am and Church in the Wild at 11.15am – with coffee served every week in the church hall from about 10.45am.

All Saints is a church in the multi-parish Benefice of Langelei comprising All Saints, Kings Langley, St Mary’s Apsley End, St Benedict’s Bennetts End and Holy Trinity, Leverstock Green. For more information about the benefice visit

www.beneficeoflangelei.org.uk The Benefice office is located at All Saints and the team administrator can be contacted on 01923 266596.

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From the Ministry Team 

Fr James, Revd David and Revd Diana introduce ‘ChurchSuite’

The PCCs of All Saints, Holy Trinity and St Mary's have accepted a proposal from the ministers to start using a system called ChurchSuite to manage our information across the Team. At its most basic, ChurchSuite provides an address book which enables us to manage data such as names and email addresses for all church contacts in a way which is compliant with privacy law. Using all the features, it will enable us to send emails more efficiently, manage events, comply with safeguarding requirements, manage rotas and have clear calendars for each Church and the whole Team. Each Church will have its own distinct site within the system, but connected as a Team to enable coordination on shared events. Doing this as a team also means that we can share the cost, which means that this is a very cost-effective way to improve our administration and processes. 

We are working on a plan to move each of the churches in turn onto ChurchSuite, and more information will be coming over the following months. For those who enjoy a bit of technology, once we are on ChurchSuite you will be able to manage your own profile in the system from a computer or via the app. If the idea of online systems worries you then please don't be concerned. There is no requirement to do anything at all online if you don't want to and paper copies of information will always be provided to those who need it. 

Please talk to any of us if you have questions!