Worship Action Group

The worship action group is responsible for all aspects of worship within the church: everything from music to candles and flags through to liturgy. The group is responsible for arranging some of the more important services in the year such as harvest festival, Christmas and Easter services. Our busiest service of the year is the village carol service.

For several years, we have seen the church packed as people from all over the village join us to celebrate Christmas with a traditional service of carols by candlelight.

The atmosphere is great with all the trimmings you’d expect at Christmas: mince pies, mulled wine, beautiful decorations and those old, well known carols. At the heart of it all is the message of Christmas – of God coming to earth in the form of his son Jesus.

Description of the 10:30 service

The 10:30 service is lively, modern and family friendly. The service opens with worship which mixes traditional hymns with contemporary songs.

The 10:30 service has an informal atmosphere and the congregation is always encouraged to engage in the worship in the way they feel comfortable. Children stay in church during the first part of the service, before leaving for their own activities.

During the month, the services alternate between communion, morning worship and all age worship, but the nature of the 10:30 remains the same: lively, warm and intimate. At the end of the service, you can join us for coffee and cakes.

Worship at All Saints Mattishall

John 4:24 says: ‘God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth.’ At the centre of every thing we do at All Saints is the desire to worship God and please him. When we meet as a church on Sunday, we want to worship God in spirit.

This means we seek to transcend our day to day lives and by the cross enter into God’s close presence. We also want to worship in truth; this means that we worship the God who is revealed to us in the Bible. The worship at All Saints could be described as contemporary, but it is underpinned by the age old truths of the Bible that speak of a God who desires intimacy with his people.

The style of our worship is of secondary importance, but we recognise the need for it to be relevant and engaging for our congregation. To that end we combine traditional hymns with modern worship songs; the worship is led by our own worship band which is made from a cross section of the church.

Week by week different members of the band take turns to plan services and lead the worship. Whoever leads, we always try to encourage people to be free to worship God as they see fit. Some people wave flags, dance, clap, raise hands, sing or simply sit quietly. The expression of worship isn’t important, but what we do pray is that through the worship members of the congregation would be able to meet with God.