All Saints & St Barnabas News

All of our Christmas Services are at All Saints, Kenley this year. We look forward to you joining us to celebrate this special season.          

  Come and join us for a FREE evening of classical music at All Saints Kenley on Sunday 15th September - 6.30pm. Performed by our very own Dominic Holland, Trinity School's 2023 Musician of the Year! All welcome, no cost to attend, and a bar will be open, serving refreshments.

The Sixteen's 2024 Choral Pilgrimage Concert will take place at Croydon Minster on 10 June 2024, 7.30pm.  Too find out more/purchase tickets, please visit https://thesixteen.com/event/the-choral-pilgrimage-2024-croydon/

  A brand new class to Kenley for 2024!   Perfect for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, come along and try Moo Music on a Friday afternoon at All Saints Kenley. - age 0-5 - 11.15am - 12 noon - contact  moomusiccroydon@gmail.com - Moo Music is a great fun and interactive multi-sensory session for 0 to 5 year old children and their parents, grandparents or carers, where the children sing, dance, play, learn and have fun while doing it. Music is an essential part of every child’s development and the 140+ original Moo Music songs used at the sessions are positive, uplifting, fun and educational. The interactive sessions will help your child gain confidence and develop memory, language and coordination skills while you can make friends with the like-minded local parents. *Moo Music has been in business for 10 years+ and runs classes across the majority of the UK, as well as in Australia, The Republic of Ireland, Korea and the United States.

Tickets are now available for 'The Mikado' at All Saints Kenley on 17th February 2024. Just £10 per ticket, for a great night out.  Refreshments available at the interval and a raffle! Buy your tickets online now, here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/all-saints-church-kenley-and-st-barnabas-church-purley/t-gaezeqq Tickets are also available to buy with cash on the door - please contact the Parish Office to secure your tickets now!

  "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing!" And here is the lovely church choir singing it, back in 2020, for our lockdown Christmas service. Pour yourself a little glass of mulled wine, sit back and enjoy! Hark The Herald Angels Sing might have been Top of the Pops, but the voting was tight and the others came very close runners up: At number 2 we had 'Silent Night';  At 3, we had 'In The Bleak Midwinter'; and at number 4, 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'. Other fantastic suggestions included:  It Came Upon The Midnight Clear;  Once in Royal David's City  and Ding Dong Merrily On High Whatever you're tapping your toes to this festive season, we wish you a very Merry Christmas.

  Christmas Carols are a time honoured tradition... but which is your favourite? The top four carols sung at All Saints and St Barnabas are: 1. Silent Night 2. In the bleak mid-winter 3. O little town of Bethlehem 4. Hark the herald angels sing We would love to know if you like these the best, or if you have others that you prefer. Perhaps 'Once in Royal David's City', or 'While Shepherds watched their flocks by night' bring back happy memories of childhood nativities. Here's a little history about the four popular carols listed above: Silent night ·          The music for this carol was written in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber with the words by Joseph Mohr, a local catholic priest.  They lived in the small town of Oberndorf bie Salzburg in Austria. ·          The story goes that the church organ was broken due to flooding and so Gruber and Mohr sang this at the frist Christmas Mass, with Mohr o...