Advent Windows 2025: what brings you joy?

🪟 Want to do your own Advent Window at home?
Just email advent@northstowe.church
 and we’ll agree a date in December. On your day, decorate a street-facing window with what brings you joy in this season and keep it up until Boxing Day. Your house goes on the Advent Window Map (anonymously).

👀 Not decorating a window?
You can still join the fun! Once the map is live, head out window-spotting — can you find them all?
 

Where: Windows all over Northstowe, starting with The Pathfinder CofE Primary School

When: 1st-26th December

VISIT THE ADVENT WINDOWS PAGE FOR FULL DETAILS: www.northstowe.church/advent

Northstowe’s Beer and Carols

It’s back by popular demand! Gather with us Friday, 19th December for a magical evening of carols, community, and cheer around Northstowe’s Christmas Tree, this year, led not just by our regular Brass Band but joined by Northstowe Chorus!

Where: Around the Tree on The Green, Pathfinder Way (Pathfinder Primary if wet)
When: 7pm

Also: 
From 5pm: Foodie's Food Trucks, Northstowe Tap and Social , and free Northstowe Hub Hot Chocolate (while stocks last).
6:30pm, and also afterwards: Brass Band Christmas music 


Bring your own warm drinks to keep cozy, or enjoy the free hot chocolate! Let’s sing, celebrate, and share the JOY of the season together.
Thank you to @Phoenix Events East Ltd for Stewarding again this year

🌟🎄🍴 Little Explorers' Christmas Party 🍴🎶🌟

Little Explorers, friends, and ‘graduates’ are all invited to our festive Christmas Party! Come and join us for a fun and friendly celebration as we retell the Christmas story together. We’d love for you to wear a simple nativity costume—maybe come dressed in blue, pop on a tea towel or a paper crown, or simply wear something festive!

As always at Little Explorers, we’ll kick off with a drop-in breakfast, followed by a special Circle Time to sing, share, and enjoy the Christmas story, including making Christingles as part of our celebration. 

📍 Where:  The Pathfinder Primary School
🕤 When: Thursday, 18th December | 9:15–10:45 AM

Scratch Nativity  

Where: The Pathfinder CofE Primary School Hall
When:  9.30am am, Sunday 21st December 2025

Whether you’re a shepherd, angel, wise person, or star, there’s a place for you in this festive and interactive celebration. No costume? We have crowns and teatowels a-plenty! Perfect for children and families. Why not bring along friends, neighbours, and relatives?

🕯️✨ Christmas Eve Christingle ✨🕯️

Come and gather in a warm circle of community as we sing carols, hear seasonal poetry, and make Christingles together — symbols of light, hope, and God’s love at the heart of the Christmas story.

We’ll craft our Christingles then dim the lights to share a beautiful candlelit moment, perfect for slowing down before the excitement of Christmas Day.

📍 Where: The Pathfinder CofE Primary School
🕒 When: Christmas Eve, 24th December |6.00–6.45pm

Simple, intergenerational, and full of gentle wonder — a lovely way to focus hearts and homes before bedtime.

All are warmly welcome. This service will be planned and led by pupils from The Pathfinder CofE Primary School working with Revd Beth (sign up through MCAS)

No cost to attend, but an idea of numbers will help us plan. Please RSVP to hello@northstowe.church or through MCAS at The Pathfinder Primary

🔥🌟 Midnight Campfire Communion 🌟🔥

One of Northstowe's most cherished Christmas traditions! After the preparations are done—potatoes peeled, presents wrapped—join us around a crackling campfire to welcome Christmas with bread, wine, and sacred words celebrating the miracle of God made flesh: love present among us.

📍 Where: Around a campfire outside The Pathfinder CofE Primary School (inside if wet).
🕦 When: Christmas Eve, 24th December | 11:40pm – 12:20am

Feel the warmth of the fire and the wonder of the season as Christmas Eve tips into Christmas Day. All are welcome to this peaceful, reflective celebration under the stars (weather permitting).
 

Christmas Morning Celebration

Start your Christmas Day with joy, community, and celebration! We’ll begin with a delicious breakfast of pastries before a short, family-friendly retelling of the Christmas story, interwoven with prayers and carols.

Where: The Pathfinder CofE Primary School Hall
When: Christmas Morning, 25th December | 9:30–10:30am

Come as you are—whether in festive jumpers, comfy jeans, or sparkly dresses—and celebrate the heart of Christmas with us!

No cost to attend, but an idea of numbers will help us plan. Please RSVP to hello@northstowe.church.