All Saints’ Appley Bridge is a small and welcoming Church of England Church. We seek to share God’s love with our community. Whether you are confident in your faith, or wanting to explore more, there is a place for you here in our Christian family.
There is a service in All Saints’ Church every Sunday at 10:30 am.
We have Holy Communion each week at 10.30 am except for the 1st Sunday in the month when we have a lay led service of Morning Prayer.
We have informal interactive services for children and their families: Family Time at 9.00 am on the 2nd Sunday of the month and Tots’ Time at 9.00 am on the 4th Sunday of the month. Activities for children are always available at the back of church.
Please email: contact@allsaintschurch.co.uk to join our mailing lists for regular updates.
PLEASE PARK CONSIDERATELY – When visiting church for any service or church event please avoid parking your car on Finch Lane. Parking is available in the church car park, leading up to the church and down from the church and also the school kindly allow us to use their car park when we have events within school.
Please use the button below to donate to our church via Just Giving
Progress with our ♻️ Eco Project
Sunday June 25th a large group of the church family and friends did a massive job in the churchyard, see the Eco Church page for more information.
BATS GALORE
See our Eco Church page for information about our recent experiences with a bat colony at All Saints!
Our Next Services
Sunday 17th March
10:30am Holy Communion with Rev’d John Mountain with C4K Church for Kids
Sunday 24th March
9:00am Tots Time – A service for children aged 0 – 4 and their parents or carers – action songs, story & play – moving around and exploring God’s love. Older children are welcome too.
10:30am Palm Sunday Service with Rev’d Sue Timmins
Thursday 28th March
7:00pm Maundy Thursday Service with Sara and Rev’d Sue Timmins (joint with Christ Church)
Faith Moments
In future, faith moments will only be distributed by email. To be added to the list of recipients please contact: contact@allsaintschurch.co.uk
All of the previous Faith Moment videos, messages from our ministry team and many videos for children are available on our Appley Bridge All Saints You Tube Channel .
Midweek Communion Wednesdays at 10.30 am
Christ Church Parbold’s mid-week 10.30 service on a Wednesday will be held at the Parbold WI Hall rather than in Christ Church Parbold. Rev’d John Mountain usually takes the service.
The WI Hall address is 2 Station Rd, Parbold, Wigan WN8 7NU and it is the hall on the same side of the road as the shops in Parbold.
Our Watchword for 2024 is:
‘The Lord is my light and salvation. Who shall I fear?’
Our watchword poster was designed by a pupil in year 6 from All Saints’ Church of England Primary School.
Pupils from each year group in the school submitted entries for a competition to design the 2024 watchword. The other entries can be seen on our recent events page
ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD REFURB UPDATE – February 2024
Following on from the work on the flagging in the garden of rest, a small group comprising Churchwarden Mike Tyrer, Eco project leader David Mapple and Deputy Churchwarden Mark Ashley yesterday (February 7th) worked on clearing up the messy south eastern corner of the churchyard in preparation for the laying of the new laurel boundary hedging at the end of February.
A key aid to the work was the appearance on site of the Deputy Churchwarden’s new hand held mini chainsaw, which can be seen in the photographs between the cones, and which despite the scepticism of the Eco Project leader proved highly effective in cutting up long pieces of timber etc to fit in the skip.
A skip of rubbish was filled, and later the same day taken away by Skelmersdale Skips. The rest of the rotten eastern boundary fencing was taken out and went into it. We intend to scatter a substantial amount of grass seed in the area that was stripped of grass around the new wildlife / bug hotel, and once the hedge has been laid, move on to rebuild the area around the memorial bench and pot plants for the benefit of visitors.
We also plan to plant blackberry, raspberry and blackcurrant plants along the southern boundary fence with the hope of producing some fruit later this year, and make further provision to encourage wildlife, especially birds, to call All Saints churchyard home! Watch this space for updates and working party days to come!!
IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT THE ROAD ALONGSIDE CHURCH
The area between the road and the church boundary is becoming increasingly damaged by vehicles attempting to park, predominantly bringing children to and from school.
This road, and its boundary area leading up to the new laurel hedge, is officially recorded as ‘unadopted,’ that means its upkeep is not the responsibility of West Lancashire Council, and by no means the responsibility of the School or the Church. We have discovered through the land registry that the road is actually owned by a property company based in Malta. Our assumption is that the land has been sold on to this company (or perhaps an owner previous to the company) by the original owners, who donated to the Church of England the land on which the church and vicarage were built in the late 1970s.
We are making tentative inquiries to establish contact with the owners to encourage them to make suitable repairs to the increasingly damaged area alongside church, and will let people know if we make any progress.
In the meantime, please try and avoid pulling up vehicles onto the now deep mud at the side of the road, as this will result in increasing the damage, and the risk of more vehicles getting stuck, as has happened recently.
Staying Safe Post Covid 19:
For communion services, bread and wine (in individual cups) is available from the Minister or people can opt to have wine from a communal chalice if they prefer. The Chalice is available at the end of Communion administration, after those preferring individual glass cups for taking the wine have been served.
Safeguarding
At All Saints’ we have a robust and thorough approach to the protection of young people and vulnerable adults. As a parish, we have adopted the House of Bishops’ ‘Promoting a Safer Church’ policy and the Parish Safeguarding Handbook, incorporating the House of Bishop’s Safeguarding Policy and Practice Guidance. We expect all members of the church and visitors to abide by the requirements of these documents.
Our PCC has formally adopted this and signed the Safeguarding Policy Statement Promoting a Safer Church which can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
All Saints’ Safeguarding Policy Statement
Details of our parish safeguarding officer can be found in our ‘Safeguarding in our Parish – who’s who’ which can be downloaded below
Safeguarding in our parish – who’s who
We have also displayed the Promoting a Safer Church poster prominently within our church this can also be viewed and/or downloaded below
Promoting a safer church poster
All those working with children and adults at risk have undergone safer recruitment, received safeguarding training and support.
Click Here to see more about safeguarding, find out how to report a concern and for further helpful information.