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 JAM (Jesus & Me) at 9.00 am on the 4th Sunday of the month. Activities for children are always available at the back of church.
Please email: revsuetimmins@gmail.com to join our mailing lists for regular updates.
What to expect when attending All Saints…….
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!
Eco Church get together
12-30 onwards after our Pentecost service on Sunday May 19th.
Join us as we continue to make improvements to the churchyard, and celebrate the return of the bats!!
Refreshments will be provided, hot and cold drinks, biscuits, buns etc, and we suggest you bring your own picnic.
Jobs to do:
Maintenance around the grave plots.
Grass seed sowing around the bug hotel.
Putting up new nest boxes.
Planting new saplings along the southern church boundary.
Clearing and replanting the raised beds.
Cress pots will be made to take home.
If the weather is bad, the day will be rescheduled.
If you can, please bring gardening tools etc.
We look forward to seeing you.
Our Next Services
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK MAY 11TH TO MAY 17TH
All Saints supports Christian Aid, and this year the week is focussed on support for farming communities in Guatemala, South America.
Here are two links below to give you more information. The first is a link to the principal project page with information about a typical farming family and a suggested schedule for prayerful support over the course of the week.
The second points to a specific resource aimed at younger children which can be printed off for use at home, school or Sunday School.
Donations to this project are being invited, and to donate please go to. https://give.christianaid.org.uk/donate/A014664
https://resources.christianaid.org.uk/…/516201…
https://resources.christianaid.org.uk/…/j517038…
Sunday 4th May
10:30am Holy Communion with Rev’d Cath with C4K
6:30pm Service of Light – a lovely, 30 minute reflective service in church
Sunday 11th May
9:00am Family Time (Theme: Jesus and the storm)
10:30am Holy Communion with Sara and Rev’d John
Sunday 18th May
10:30am Lay Led Service Sara with C4K
Sunday 25th May
9:00am JAM Time (Theme: Saying thank you – The 10 Lepers)
10:30am Holy Communion with Rev’d Sue
Thursday 29th May
7:00pm Ascension Day Service with Rev’d Sue
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 2025 is:
‘We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.’
Our watchword poster was designed by a pupil in year 6 from All Saints’ Church of England Primary School.
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.
Furthermore we fully recognise and comply with the
CofE Responding Well to Victims and Survivors of Abuse policy
Click Here to see more about safeguarding, find out how to report a concern and for further helpful information.