Service as usual: The Whitewater Benefice is in vacancy. Rev Canon Marion de Quidt has retired after 10 years of service in Whitewater Benefice. We are now in the period before a new parish priest arrives.
The churches of Heckfield, Mattingley and Rotherwick will continue to be served by Rev Helen Sherlock. Hook will be served by visiting priests.
Click here - for more info on vacancy at St John's, Hook.
A church is first a community of people, second the building. Church is a Kingdom space, a relational space where people come together in common-unity to worship, support one another to grow in faith, and to support the wider community.
Sunday Services: In Hook, we have two services every week, at 10am and 6pm. In the Benefice, a weekly service at 8.30am, which moves around the 4 churches. In HMR, we will be meet every week at 11am in Rotherwick for a variety of forms of worship. We also have a service of Matins at 11am on the third Sunday each month in Mattingley, and 6.30pm Rotherwick Evensong on the second Sunday.
On Remembrance Sunday it was lovely to see so many people join us for our Acts of Remembrance - and lovely to see it as a real coming together of the community to remember those lost in wars, so we may live in peace. We will remember them.
This time of year is always busy, check out the Calendar for further information. Look out for: Messy Church on 21st Nov at St John's, aimed at those under 11, come and have some messy fun & tea; and on 23rd November, stir up Sunday, the Christmas Cake, make, take, bake at St John's - please book in advance, so we can have all the ingedients bought and measured out for you to make your cakes!
On Advent Sunday, 30th November we are having an All Age Christingle at 10am at St John's, and at 6pm it is our Advent Carol Service. Sunday 7th December, is a Benefice Communion Service with the Bishop of Winchester, at St John's (as its a Benefice Service, there will not be a morning service in Rotherwick), everyone is welcome to come and support our confirmation candidates.
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Our Church Locations
We are two Parishes in NE Hampshire, with four churches: one in the centre of Hook, and the others in the surrounding villages. Click on the images below to find our more about the location of each church.
To find out about the locations & accessibility of our churches, please see our Church Locations page