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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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  • Monsters Stink Holiday Club

    Monsters Stink Holiday Club

    St. Andrew’s held their sixth children’s Holiday Club during the last week of July which was attended by 26 local children and upto 17 leaders over the 5 evenings. “Monsters Stink” used clips from the Monsters Inc film and looked at some of the fears...

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  • Team Curate 2011

    Team Curate 2011

    Kirkby Team Curacy 2011

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  • Admin Assistant Required

    Admin Assistant Required

    Job advertisement for a Parish Admin Assistant.

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  • General Election Debate

    General Election Debate

    Kirkby Churches public meeting to provide a hustings opportunity for local residents to meet their parliamentary candidates.

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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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  • Christmas Concert

    Christmas Concert

    The Community Christmas Concert with the Band of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Performance Studios Choir in St Chad's on Sunday evening 13th December.

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  • Bishop James Visit to Centre 63

    Bishop James Visit to Centre 63

    The Bishop of Liverpool, Rt Revd James Jones, visited Centre 63 today.

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  • Alice Wharton (1907-2009)

    Alice Wharton (1907-2009)

    An appreciation of Alice Wharton who died on Friday 4th December 2009.

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  • Destination Kirkby Rejected

    Destination Kirkby Rejected

    An article by Tim Stratford. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the Parochial Church Council.

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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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  • Remembrance Sunday

    Remembrance Sunday

    Remembrance Sunday was marked by a service in Kirkby Civic Centre and two minutes silence at 11am.

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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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  • 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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