Benefice of Kirk Langley, Mackworth, Mugginton, Long Lane and Longford

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The Harvest flowers this year at St Michael's, Kirk Langley were absolutely beautiful!🥰👏🙏👍🥰

Volunteers needed for the 'Autumn Tidy Up'! 👍🙏👩‍🌾🌳🍂

This weeks Worship Leaders enjoyed decorating our worship table. They thought carefully about what they choose to represent the beauty of God’s world, including animals from the land and sea.

Join us for what promises to be a very entertaining evening! 👏👍

We would be delighted to welcome you to one of our benefice harvest services. Do join us!! 👋🙏🍏🥦🫑🍞🍅

Please come along to see the plans for the interior of All Saints' Church, Mackworth on Friday 20th September!! 🙏👋⛪

Open Garden tomorrow at Long Acres Farm!👋🪻🌷🌹👋

FOOD NEEDED 🙏🍽🙏🫓🙏🍚🙏🥣🙏
Kirk Langley and Mackworth churches collect food for Derby Food 4 Thought Food Bank Alliance that helps supply many Derby food banks. Over summer, food banks are often low in stock and this year particularly so. Please could you consider donating food to any food bank. For individual donors there are collecting places in many supermarkets and we collect in St Michael’s Church, Kirk Langley. If you are an organisation, business, place of worship etc and need help working out how to effectively make a food collection, please send us a Facebook message or email us at [email protected] and we’ll try to put you in touch with someone who can help. Thank you to everyone who supports by giving food.🙏🙏🙏

The 'Lady of the Lamp' and the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale died on this day in 1910. Florence had a very strong sense of God's presence in her life and was devoted to serving others. 🙏🚑

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Not One but Two 80th Anniversary Services at The Lonely Memorial! 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺On Saturday 20th July at 2pm Rev Pete Even of The Derbyshire Rural Chaplaincy led the first service at the site of the Lonely Memorial in a field at Leasow Farm, near Weston Underwood and Mugginton. He gave a very moving description of the night that flight BD230, a Whitley Bomber, crashed into the ground when an engine failed after an aborted landing at RAF Ashbourne in the early hours 24th July 1944. All five aircrew, ages 18 to 24, were killed and three of the bodies were never found, so this is their grave. The other two were buried in CWGC graves in St Oswald’s, Ashbourne and St Helens, Lancashire. A year later, the families of the men joined together to erect the so called “Lonely Memorial” to mark the spot their loved ones died.
The service this year was attended by two relatives of the men, from Hertfordshire and Derbyshire. We were also honoured that Brell Ewart, Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire, attended and presented a wreath on behalf of The Lieutenant of Derbyshire and by reference the King. The service was also attended by air cadets and officers of ATC 620 from Belper, who also presented wreaths. (see photo). Flowers and poppy crosses were also presented by locals from the surrounding villages who attended in force. A bugler and bagpiper added to the emotion of the event. Mugginton PCC are grateful to those who organised the service and to farmer Dave Metcalf’s co-operation, who also provided transport for some across the fields.
Ashbourne Royal British Legion didn’t realise this service was happening and independently organised a service on the actual 80th anniversary date of the crash, 24th July at 6pm. When this was discovered, it was decided that both services should go ahead. The second service was organised by The Chairman of Ashbourne RBL who gave a very comprehensive talk about the state of the war at the time, the plane in use and the actual details of the crash. This time Rev Arthur Champion of DRC conducted the service. The Deputy Lieutenant, who is also President of Ashbourne RBL attended again along with other members of RBL. The Ashbourne Army Cadets were present along with a member of Ashbourne Town band who played The Last Post and Reveille. Again, lots of members of local villages, some with their dogs, attended the service. More wreaths were presented. (see photo.)
New relationships have been made and next time we’ll organise a joint service. In the meantime, Ashbourne RBL will be cleaning all the CWGC gravestones in St Oswald’s and have offered to help with maintenance of The Lonely Memorial too, as have the air cadets.
The Lonely Memorial has now returned to its usual solitude apart from the cows of Leasow Farm.

Prayers for Southport 🙏

The Kirk Langley Field Day on July 6th was blessed with lovely sunshine after the initial downpour! It was an enjoyable afternoon and a busy one for St Michael's band of helpers - Paul and Anne, Michael, Bill and Elaine, Andrew and Frances and Frank and Margaret. Our sincere thanks go to them for helping on the day and to everyone who contributed items for the stalls. The financial outcome is not known yet but will be announced as soon as possible.

80th Anniversary of The Lonely Memorial 🌺🌺🕑🕑
80 years ago, not long after D-Day, on 24th July 1944 a Whitley
bomber came down in a field behind Weston Underwood with
the loss of all five aircrew, aged only 18 to 24.
On Saturday 20th July at 2pm there will be a short ceremony on
the site of The Lonely Memorial to remember the crew who died.
It will be attended by members of the ATC 620 squadron and
the short service will be led by The Reverend Pete Evens from
Derbyshire Rural Chaplaincy.
If you would like to attend the ceremony, it would be a nice walk
across fields, which can be approached from the lane opposite the
C**k Inn or footpaths behind Weston Underwood.
After consultation with Leasow Farm, closer to the date, a map
will be produced with the best route. If you are interested in
joining us, please email Ian Sutton at [email protected] for a
copy of the map and further details; or you could refer to the
noticeboard in Mugginton Church porch.
‘We will remember them’

Longford WI invite you to an afternoon tea party on Wednesday 10th July at the WI Pump Room, Longford DE63DR. In memory of our dear friend, WI committee member and Longford resident Sara Redlaff, who sadly passed away 5 years ago, we are raising funds for two charities that were important to her; Women’s Work (Derby) and Maggie’s Cancer Centre (Nottingham). Tickets are £10 per person or £5 per child and include a selection of scones, homemade cakes and tea/ coffee / squash. There are two sittings, 2-3.30pm and 3.30-5pm, and tickets are available from Anne Mitchell on 07976943431. Also from September, after a summer break, Longford WI meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm at the Pump Room, Longford. Do come along and join us!

A reminder to come and join us on Saturday 6th July for what is usually an entertaining and enjoyable afternoon! 👏🍰🫖🍻🎺

PRAYING FOR MACKWORTH CHURCH 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Please come and pray with us down in All Saints’ Mackworth churchyard on Sunday 23rd June at 3pm. There will be a short service (about 15minutes ) - bring a chair and enjoy a chat. Bring refreshments if you like. The rain won’t stop us!