Dear friends,
Current update 03 April 2021:
Good news:
| Meet with us for a virtual coffee and a chat at 11.30am on Sundays in our zoom room. Please click here and follow the instructions. |
Sunday 18th April ( available from 8.00am)
Sunday 25th April (available from 8.00am)
In church, we are maintaining social distancing (see images below).
A shortened said Holy Communion service is being held twice weekly.
Our weekly message and Morning Prayer
We are looking for someone to take up the roll as "Utilities Champion" for our church.
We are currently on fixed term contracts for our gas, electricity, water and internet. As these come to their expiry dates during the year, we need someone to offer a little time to research to get us some good deals (in the same way you research your own utilities).
Can you please spare a few hours to help?
For more info contact Lindsay Jessop on 01704 576563.
If you have any items that you would like to donate to the local Foodbank, please leave them in the church porch between 12.00 noon and 1.00pm on Mondays
The Paddock, Midhurst Drive and Longcliffe Drive
Past Sunday services have now been archived and moved to our Church service page
Our recent midweek and Saturday events have been moved to our Archive page
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT DURING THESE DIFFICULT TIMES - Join our Buddy Scheme
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You can also support us particularly at this time of year by using Easyfundraising when you shop with retailers. Please do consider using this link whenever you can.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has also announced - "Daily Hope " - launched by Justin Welby, in April.
The service – which is available 24 hours a day on 0800 804 8044 – has been set up as a simple new way to bring worship and prayer into people’s homes, especially older people and anyone unable to join online church services.
Please see our diary section on this website or our Facebook page for future events and dates.
Our church
Welcome to the Website of St John’s Anglican Church, Ainsdale.
St John’s is situated in Ainsdale village a few miles south of Southport and is part of the Church of England, belonging to the Diocese of Liverpool.
Our Church is one which aims to nurture people in the Christian faith and to bring the love of Christ to those in our Community. This is shown both by the variety of Church worship styles that we offer to people each week and also in the many social events, community services and various activities for all ages that our members are involved in. There really is something for everyone at St. John’s!
We moved back into our Church in November 2017, having completed a 6-year building redevelopment scheme for both the Church building and the Church Hall. As a result of this, we now have a wonderful worship space as well as wonderful modern facilities which enable us to hold many other social events as well. Our Church building is now open every day of the week for all sorts of activities and is a Church which is truly at the heart of our community. The congregation have worked tirelessly to raise the incredible amount of over £600,000 to enable this development scheme to be competed (that’s why it took us 6 years to complete!) and everyone agrees that it has been well worth the effort!
Our team at St. John’s have felt wonderfully privileged to see the dedication and commitment of the congregation at our church to this redevelopment scheme, as the easy option of just doing the necessary repairs and replacing the old roof would have cost us less than half of what we ended up spending. To us this shows not only their dedication to the fundraising effort, but also their commitment to the community we are called to serve. This continuing commitment also means that you can be assured of a very warm welcome here - whenever you join us for worship or for a social gathering - and we're not talking about the underfloor heating!
We hope that you will enjoy exploring our website to find out a little bit more about us and that you will feel that you’d like to come along and meet us at some time in the near future.
Gallery
We now have a Gallery page where you can see pictures of the church and from recent events.
We have signed up to, and support the ideals of the Church or England digital charter https://www.churchofengland.org/terms-and-conditions/our-digital-charter and the 'Contract for the Web' https://contractfortheweb.org/ from the World Wide Web Foundation.
April 21, 2021 - 10:30 am
Wednesday service in church - 30 minute said service with Holy Communion, BCP
April 25, 2021 - 10:00 am
Sunday service in church - 30 minute said service with Holy Communion, also available on line from 8.00am
April 28, 2021 - 10:30 am
Wednesday service in church - 30 minute said service with Holy Communion, BCP
May 2, 2021 - 10:00 am
Sunday service in church - shortened said service with Holy Communion, also available on line from 8.00am
May 5, 2021 - 10:30 am
Wednesday service in church - shortened said service with Holy Communion, BCP
St John's Ainsdale News Page
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