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Tower Hill Community Carol Service
Tuesday 13th December at 6:30pm at the Community Centre, Ebony Way

Town Centre Carol Service
Saturday 17th December at 11am at the Bandstand

Carol Concert
with the Band of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
Saturday 17th December, 6.45pm at St Chad’s
Admission charges apply £2 children, £4 adults

Morning Carol Service
Sunday 18th December, 11.00am at St Mark’s

Carols by Candlelight in the Chancel
Sunday 18th December, 6.30pm at St Chad’s

Carols by Candlelight at St Martin’s and St Andrew’s
Sunday 18th December, 6.30pm

Crib Service (For youngsters and their families)
Christmas Eve, 2.00pm at St Mark’s, 4.00pm in St Chad’s and in St Andrew’s

The First Communion of Christmas
Christmas Eve, 9.00pm at St Mark’s

Midnight Communion Services on Christmas Eve
11.00pm at St Andrew’s
11.30pm at St Martin’s and St Chad’s

Christmas Morning Services
Holy Communion: 10.00am at St Andrew’s, St Chad’s and St Martin’s
Family Service: 10.00am at St Mark’s

There will be no Tuesday morning Communion at St Chad’s on 27th December

New Year’s Day Services
9.30am Holy Communion at St Mark’s and St Martin’s
11.00am Holy Communion at St Chad’s and St Andrew’s

Trafford Hall was the venue for an AwayDay attended by over 60 members from the four churches in Kirkby.  Back home Sunday services were cancelled in all but St Chad’s and the Awayday began and ended with short services in the Trafford Hall Ballroom.

Upstairs the children mapped Kirkby and thought about what was good and bad about church.

Downstairs the adults’ debate was facilitated by the Team Consultant, Harry Bundred.  Church members described what they thought about Kirkby, what they suspected Kirkby thought about their churches then started to dream how the church could represent itself better.

The discussion will carry on back home too.  Members of all our churches are invited to a follow-up meeting: 7.30pm on 10th October at St Mark’s. This will be where we start to work out not just what we think but what we are going to do about it.

You can view the Flip Chart pages here.

Jayne with Bishop Richard

 

After being ordained as a deacon last week, Jayne has taken up the post of curate in the Kirkby Parish. Jayne who is originally from Kirkby has moved into St. Mark’s Vicarage at Brampton Close with her husband Andy and two of her three children – Joseph and Chris. Prior to her training for ordination, Jayne has spent the majority of her working life running her own business. During the last three years whilst studying, she has focused on increasing her listening and pastoral skills, by working part-time as a Crisis Carer.

From an early age, Jayne has always been conscious of having a personal faith in God and has always been involved in some form of active lay ministry in the churches where she has worshipped. Around ten years ago after a death in the family, Jayne found her faith being challenged. This resulted in her embarking on a journey of discovery, in which she sought to delve deeper into the faith she had been taught as a child. Initially this led to studying theology through a correspondence course with St. John’s College in Nottingham.

Whilst studying at St. John’s College, Jayne became a lay leader in St. John’s Church, Burscough. She became involved in the development of house-groups, writing small group studies and was a pastor to a cluster of house-group leaders. Before being selected for ordination, Jayne spent three years developing and running a discipleship programme for mature Christians who, like Jayne wanted to deepen their understand of the Christian faith. Jayne is passionate about sharing the Gospel with people both inside and outside the church and considers outreach and evangelism to be an important part of her ministry.

Jayne sees her new role in the Kirkby team ministry as a real homecoming. Jayne says, “St. Martins Church is on the next road from where I grew up as a child, and I can see my first marital home from the vicarage! Bishop James Jones commented earlier this year; that taking up a post in Kirkby would in many ways be like going back to my roots – and this is exactly what it feels like! Being a ‘Kirkby Lass’ and coming from a working class background, I am not what many people would consider to be a ‘typical’ Deacon. Nevertheless, Kirkby was the place where God planted the seeds in my heart for my future ministry, and I pray that by his grace he will allow those seeds to bear fruit in my hometown. I look forward to meeting friends from the past and meeting new people as I serve the people of Kirkby”.

Votives: often a picture of prayer.

We have now managed to put the last piece of a jigsaw of evening worship in place that means there is a service in the parish every Sunday evening.

There has been demand for this for some time and four new forms of worship for the church in Kirkby have been developed over the last couple of years.

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6.30 evening services now follow the following pattern:
1st Sunday: Taizé Worship at St Martin’s
2nd Sunday Café Church at St Mark’s
3rd Sunday Reflections at St Andrew’s
4th Sunday 1662 Evensong at St Chad’s
5th Sunday Healing Service on rotation

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Taizé Worship
Follows the reflective and musical traditions of the Taizé Community in Burgundy, Southern France.  The repeated contemporary chants throughout this half hour service give a peaceful opportunity for prayer.  Held in St Martin’s on the first Sunday of every month.

Café Church
Adopts the familiar rules of the High Street Café.  This is more about being church than doing church.  The Bible isn’t read out loud but a passage of scripture is printed on the menu each week. Hymns aren’t sung but there is always music playing. Prayers aren’t said but they can be written on altar cards.  A sermon isn’t preached but there is a lot of talk and chat.  All welcome for good food and hot drinks - Café Church is easy church – at St Mark’s on the second Sunday of every month.

The “Reflections Service”
Provides a fresh take on big themes using multi-media and multi-sensory ideas to get you to think and inspire fresh prayer. Third Sunday of every month at St Andrew’s.

St Chad’s
A traditional church building and a traditional form of Evening Prayer from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is on offer there every fourth Sunday of the month.  This is by no means new but it is new to the present generation of churches in Kirkby and was the last piece of the jigsaw we have put in place.

Four times a year there is a fifth Sunday
Each month this happens there will be a service of Wholeness and Healing moving around the four of our churches on a rotational basis.

Mothering Sunday Services:
9:30am at St Mark’s and St Martin’s
11:00am at St Andrew’s and St Chad’s

Come and celebrate motherhood with us and say thank you to your own mum.

Invitations have been sent to every family who has come for a Baptism in our churches over the past year.
All ages and all comers welcome.

Come and enter into the Easter story with us this year.

Ash Wednesday (9th March)
Holy Communion with the Imposition of Ashes
7:30pm at St Andrew’s

Lent Course

Every Tuesday in Lent, 7:30pm:
15th March, Centre 63 – Growth in Numbers
22nd March, St Andrew’s – Growth in Depth
29th March, St Mark’s – Growth in Community
5th April, St Martin’s – Growth in Generosity
12th April, Centre 63 – Growth in Learning

Holy Week begins with our usual Palm Sunday (17th April) celebrations in the four churches on Sunday morning,
St. Mark’s and St. Martin’s at 9:30am, and
St. Andrew’s and St. Chad’s at 11:00am.

Holy Week Meditations are all at 7:30pm as follows:
Monday 18th April at St. Chad’s
Tuesday 19th April at St. Andrew’s
Wednesday 20th April at St. Martin’s

Maundy Thursday (21st April)
Passover Meal and Communion (Seder Eucharist)
St. Mark’s at 7:00pm

Good Friday (22nd April)
Begins with the children’s workshops at 9:30am and 11:30am in St Chad’s,
followed by the Hour at the Cross at St. Chad’s at 3:00pm.

Easter Eve (Saturday 23rd April),
Kirkby Churches Together worship in Town Centre 11:00am
Vigil Service at St. Martin’s at 8:30pm.

Easter Day is celebrated in all four churches at their usual times,
St Martin’s and St. Mark’s at 9:30am,
St. Chad’s and St. Andrew’s at 11:00am.

"Jesus' body is removed from the cross". One of the Stations of the Cross in St Anne's, Stanley.

Church of England School Children at their Nativity in 2010

The Midnight Communion Services and Christmas Morning Services at St Chad’s, St Andrew’s and St Martin’s all take place as normal this year despite the snow.  Services at St Mark’s over the weekend have been cancelled.

St Andrew’s
Christmas Eve 11.30pm First Eucharist of Christmas (Midnight Communion)
Christmas Day 10.00am Family Communion Service

St Chad’s
Christmas Eve 11.00pm Carol Singing
Christmas Eve 11.30pm First Eucharist of Christmas (Midnight Communion)
Christmas Day 10.00am Family Communion Service

St Martin’s
Christmas Eve 11.30pm First Eucharist of Christmas (Midnight Communion)
Christmas Day 10.00am Family Communion Service

St. Chad's in the snow

For details and updates about Christmas Day Services please click here.

St Chad’s Carol Service,
Sunday 19th December 2010
The snow has made Old Hall Lane impassible and regrettably we have decided to CANCEL this service.

St. Mark’s Carol Service,
Sunday 19th December 2010
Due to the conditions, this has now had to be cancelled.

St. Martin’s Carols by Candlelight Service
This has also been cancelled due to the icy condition of pavements and roads. Snow at Christmas – how ridiculous!

Lighting Prayer Lanterns as a celebration of colour

Over the past few years, we have been gradually building up a pattern of varied and distinctive evening worship sessions. These started a few years ago with a service offering prayers for wholeness and healing 4 times a year. Then was added a bi-monthly ‘Reflections’ service, which approaches faith through a variety of media – visual, auditory and kinesthetic (things to look at, things to hear and things to feel and touch). Last year, 2009, we launched a monthly Cafe Church, which is on the second Sunday of the month in St. Mark’s. This is a chance to have good coffee, nice food, and to think about faith and life around the table with friends.

From next month, we are adding in the opportunity to worship in a ‘Taize‘ style – simple, reflective music, prayers and bible reading, with plenty of silence, and no sermon. This will be in St. Martin’s, on the 7th November, and then every month on the first Sunday of the month.

We also plan to start a monthly Evensong soon. When we have that in place, Sunday evenings will look like this:

1st Sunday: Taize style service, St. Martin’s
2nd Sunday: Cafe Church, St. Mark’s
3rd Sunday: Reflections service, St. Andrew’s, or film evening on Saturday, alternating.
4th Sunday: Evensong, St. Chad’s

Healing Service will be four times a year, on Sundays to suit.

Prayers were written on the beautiful and colourful lanterns

Reflections on colour