St Martin’s Archive

  • St. Martin’s Refurbished

    St. Martin’s Refurbished

    St. Martin's Church, Southdene has been completely transformed this year by a stunning refurbishment.

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  • Healing Team Day Retreat at Loyola Hall

    Healing Team Day Retreat at Loyola Hall

    The Healing Team went on day retreat to Loyola Hall recently.

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  • Team Curate 2011

    Team Curate 2011

    Kirkby Team Curacy 2011

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  • St. Martin’s Refurbishment

    St. Martin’s Refurbishment

    St. Martin's refurbishment begins, creating a new community space for Southdene.

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  • Questions of Faith

    Questions of Faith

    Questions of Faith is a chance to explore the big questions - like 'Why are we here?'

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  • Holy Week and Easter

    Holy Week and Easter

    Come and celebrate Easter with us in Kirkby this year, with something for everyone over the course of the festival.

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  • Lent Prayer Course

    Lent Prayer Course

    Our Lent Course this year is a chance to explore praying in different ways.

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  • St. Martin’s at Christmas

    St. Martin’s at Christmas

    St. Martin’s Christmas services included this year a visit from Park Brow Key Stage 2 (Juniors), as well as the customary candlelit Carol Service, Midnight Communion and Christmas morning service. We also welcomed a new knitted nativity set!

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  • Kirkby Churches in Snow

    Kirkby Churches in Snow

    Pictures of St. Martin's and St. Chad's in the snow.

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  • Chester Trip

    Chester Trip

    A coach load of people from Kirkby visited Chester for a Christmas shopping trip on Saturday 21st November.

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  • Murder Mystery Night

    Murder Mystery Night

    A dark and wet evening on Friday 13th November provided the setting for a mystery at St Chad's

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  • Parish Pilgrimage to the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland

    Parish Pilgrimage to the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland

    A group of people from the four Kirkby churches met at John Lennon Airport on 7th September 2009 to travel to  Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland for the Annual Parish Retreat.  For many this was their first flight so there was much excitement as the...

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  • Day Retreat at Pennant Melangell

    Day Retreat at Pennant Melangell

    On July 16th, the Kirkby healing team members set off for a quiet day retreat to St. Melangell’s Church in the Berwyn Mountains, a remote and beautiful spot at the head of the Tanet Valley in Wales. Our aim was to reflect on the life...

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  • All Saints

    All Saints

    On Sunday 1st November, in the evening, we held our annual Commemoration services for the Faithful Departed, especially thinking about those who have died in the previous year. Christmas is a hard time for many people, and we begin the run up to Christmas with...

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  • Light Night

    Light Night

    On October 31st, we celebrated our 6th annual Light Night, an alternative to Halloween focussing on light and all things good. For two hours, we did craft, played games, did challenges, ate and drank, and generally had a fantastic time. Pictures are below.

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  • Two Cathedrals

    Two Cathedrals

    The Group with No Name went on a trip to Liverpool at the start of October half term. We visited both cathedrals, Hope Street, the Albert Dock, Mersey Maritime Museum, the International Slavery Museum, ‘an awesome sweet shop’, and saw HMS Illustrious on her visit...

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  • Stuart Townend concert

    Stuart Townend concert

    Members of St. Martin’s visited the Anglican Cathedral on Friday 23rd October for a concert of modern Christian hymns and songs with the world’s leading contemporary Christian song-writer, Stuart Townend and his band. We were treated to an eclectic mix of music, from jazz and...

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  • Christmas in Kirkby

    Christmas in Kirkby

    We have a busy programme of events planned for Christmas this year, with something for everyone around the four Church of England churches here in Kirkby: Sunday 1st November: All Saints day. Services of commemoration for the faithful departed in all four churches, 4pm at...

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  • Link to older stories

    Link to older stories

    Welcome to our new blog. This is where we will be posting news stories from the Parish of Kirkby, and the four Church of England churches here, St. Andrew’s, St. Chad’s, St. Mark’s and St. Martin’s. Older news stories can be found at their previous...

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