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All Saints Hoole Chester

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Our Church Family

Here at All Saints people are at the heart of Church life so we aim to provide services and activities that meet the needs of everyone – whether you are young or old, part of a family or on your own. Some of these will be together as a church and others for more specific groups.

Children welcome

If you are looking after a young child you may feel anxious about bringing them to church - be assured, children are especially welcome as part of our church family.

Our children and young people always seem to feel comfortable and at home in the building, and enjoy the broad range of groups and activities we run for them, including crèche and Sunday Club. Activities bags are available for young children at the back of church and if you want to take a restless child out of the service there is plenty of space to walk around in the church centre – or the garden if the weather’s fine.

If your children have already been baptised and admitted to communion then they are welcome to continue to do so here – whatever their age. 

Everyone who works with children, young people or vulnerable adults – whether paid or voluntary – is vetted and has a current Criminal Records Bureau disclosure (CRB check).

Special needs

The church is equipped with a hearing induction loop and large print version of notices, the order of service and song words are available for all Sunday services. Our buildings meet all accessibility requirements.

Adults with learning difficulties are welcomed and cherished at All Saints. We don’t run separate activities for people will special learning needs because we include them in everything we do as far as we are able, including home groups and the Church weekend away.

Weekly services

On Sundays we generally have two services at All Saints Church – 9am which is a traditional service of Holy Communion; 10.45am which is larger more informal service where our music group leads sung worship and where we provide activities and facilities for children and young people.

Monthly All Age Worship

On the first Sunday of each month we have a special all age service.<<link to services page> We include a high degree of participation and aim to keep this to about an hour so as not to try the patience of the little ones. Baptisms and Thanksgivings take place within these services.

Midweek

There are a whole range of activities for younger and older children:

We don’t operate in isolation and work closely with other local groups for primary and secondary age young people.

These include:

Trackers (7 to 11-year-olds) Hoole Baptist Church Thursday 6-7pm
D'Biz (11 to 16-year-olds) Hoole Baptist Church Thursday 8-9.30pm 
Coffee Bar (11 to 16-year-olds) Hoole Baptist Church Thursday and Friday 4.5.30pm

Visit www.dbiz.org.uk or www.hbc.org.uk lighthouse to find out more about these groups.

School links

The Church values its close links with the Hoole Church of England Primary School with three of our Church family members as Foundation Governors. The Church building hosts many school services and performances.

Protecting our children

Everyone who works with children, young people or vulnerable adults at All Saints – whether paid or voluntary – is vetted and has a current clean Criminal Records Bureau disclosure (CRB check).

Time to pray

We believe it is important to come together as a church to recognise our dependence on God in prayer and to wait on him for direction. We have a number of occasions in the month to help us to do that. There is a link to prayer times this month on our home page.

Open to God

Monthly on a Wednesday at 7.45pm in the Church Centre - we meet together for praise, prayer and to listen to God. Once a term Open to God takes place in housegroups.We begin with refreshments and then move to a time of praise before praying for our church, our community, our nation and the world.

Pause for prayer

Every other Wednesday from 7.30 am to 8.00am in the Church Centre, alternating with the Alpha prayer meeting (caffeine provided!) to give an opportunity to meet together in spoken and silent prayer for the life and work of the church.

Alpha prayer breakfast

Alternate Wednesday mornings from 7.30am to 8.15am to pray for the guests and leaders of the Alpha Course run jointly by All Saints and Hoole Baptist Church.

Thursday lunchtime prayer 

Are you free on Thursday lunchtimes? Would you like to join with others to pray for what is going on at All Saints but struggle to make the other regular prayer meetings? We meet fortnightly at 1pm for about 30 minutes.

We particularly focus on Dinkies, Minis, Messy Church and the children/young people in Sunday club, Pathfinders and Franks. 

To find out more about any of our prayer meetings, contact the Church Office on 01244 322056.

Adults and families

Alpha

The Alpha course is an opportunity for anyone to explore the Christian faith in a relaxed, non-threatening manner in thought-provoking weekly sessions. It runs for seven weeks three times a year.

Café @ All Saints Tuesday 10am to 12pm

Café provides a relaxed, friendly and inviting environment for anyone who fancies a cup of tea or coffee. We have a number of regular visitors and are always happy to welcome new faces. Café takes place at the back of church making it easy for people to wander in as the pass by the building. Please come and join us!

Care group

Caring for one another is key to our life as a church family so our volunteer Care Group is on hand to provide help and support to any of the church family who needs it with the aim of offering a ‘good neighbour’ service. Please contact us on 07711 425 366.

Church weekend

Our annual church weekend away is one of the highlights of the All Saints calendar.
For two nights each spring around 120 members of the church family decamp to the stunning surroundings of Cloverley Hall near Whitchurch in Shropshire. The next one is from April 27th-29th 2012. Booking starts in September and further details will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Costa – the ultimate ‘stay-cation’

Our Costa series of holidays started in 2008 to provide a stay-at-home holiday for senior citizens – and each year goes from strength-to-strength with a committed team of organisers coming up with new and exciting ideas every summer. Due to repairs on the hall floor this summer we are unable to run Costa in its usual format this year. Details of what we have in store for 2011 will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Home groups

Home Groups are an integral part of life at All Saints because they give members a chance to learn together, study scripture, develop faith and make friends. Groups meet fortnightly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the day and evening. Some meet in the church centre, others at the leader’s home and some move between the homes of group members.

Marriage preparation

Marriage is a big step – and an important one. Once the fun of planning the ‘big day’ is over, the guests have left and you’re home from your honeymoon, what happens next? At All Saints we don’t just support you as you prepare for the wedding ceremony but also as you begin married life together by running marriage prep courses twice a year. To find out when the next one takes place, call the office on 01244 322056.

Music group

All Saints is blessed with a large number of talented singers and musicians who make up our music group.

Our main role is to lead sung worship at the 10.45am service each Sunday with a mix of modern songs – new ones and old favourites – and traditional hymns. At this service you will find a range of instruments being playing played including keyboard, guitars, bass guitars, violins, cornet and even the occasional drums.

At the more traditional 9am service hymns are accompanied on the organ or sometimes, as at the 6.30 service, on the keyboard.

Outside of these services we also provide musicians for Open to God and have been privileged to lead worship at Chester Bible Focus on a number of occasions.

Special events

Lent Suppers
Harvest

Students

We love having students at All Saints so if you’re a student at one of the colleges and universities in and around Chester we would love to have you worshipping with us each Sunday morning. We know being away from home has its challenges – not least eating proper meals – so we offer lunch on alternate Sundays during term time and have great fun eating, chatting and relaxing together. To find out more about what we do for students contact Elaine or Rick Hemmings through the Church office on 01244 322056.

Our welcome to you

We want you to feel part of things as quickly as possible and would love to invite you to our Welcome lunches or evenings. Please call the church office on 01244 322056 to find out more and book a place.