Christmas Events Quick List
- all with seasonal refreshments
details below
- 17th Dec - 6.15pm Tues: Children's Candlelit Carol Service
- 22nd Dec - 11am Sun: Morning Service
- 22nd Dec - 6pm Sun: Evening Service
- 24th Dec - 6pm Tues: Christmas Eve Carols By Candlelight
- 25th Dec - 11am Wed: Christmas Day Celebration
Celebrating Christmas 2024 with Ashbourne Baptist Church
at St John's, on the Buxton Hill
We have a choice of Carol Services
Lovely Christmassy refreshments will be served at all these events.
— everyone is welcome to one - or all - of them!
All these services are held in the church building (our usual meeting place) — not in the community hall behind.
We look forward to seeing you!
Happy Christmas!
Thursday Prayer Meeting updates for December and the New Year:
Prayer Meeting as usual: 12th and 19th December 2024.
NO Prayer Meeting: 26th December 2024 or 2nd January 2025
Family Carol Service Carols By Candlelight Childrens’ Candlelit Carol Service Christmas Day Celebration
CHRISTMAS DAY CELEBRATION 2024
11am Wednesday
25th December 2024
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
with christmassy refreshments
A Christmas Day to remember!
Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the most real, most special thing about Christmas with us... it's so much more than 'a season'. It's a season with a reason...
(keep scrolling for other Christmas Services... )
CHRISTMAS EVE CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT SERVICE
6pm Tuesday
24th December 2024
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
with christmassy refreshments
Everyone is welcome - come and enjoy the run up to Christmas with us! It's a special time for you - or your whole family - prepare for Christmas.
And why not come again in the evening, to our lovely Carols By Candlelight for an extra special 'night before Christmas'?
MORNING & EVENING SERVICES with CAROLS
11am & 6pm Sunday
22nd December 2024
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
with christmassy refreshments
Christmassy services - everyone welcome.
CHILDRENS’ CANDLELIT CAROL SERVICE
6.15pm Tuesday
17th December 2024
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
with christmassy refreshments
For everyone! There will be light refreshments after the service.
Boys Brigade & Girls' Association parents — please come along with your friends and family.
Christmasses Past...
A brief recap...
Christmas Sermons
Mostly audio, but some video Christmas audio recordings are available online.
Christmas Carols 'Nativity Pop-up Trailer'
In 2020 we took a Christmas Carol Nativity Pop-up Trailer around various streets of Ashbourne, local schools and nearby villages, with a Pop-up Christmas Nativity — 'Son et Lumiere' style. Different areas of the stable scene were lit as Nathan's retelling of the first Christmas progressed, to illustrate each Bible account or hymn. Local people participated enthusiastically from their own doorways.
The Thrill of Resuming 'Carols By Candlelight'!
It was the 2020 Covid lockdown that prompted our pop-up Carols trailer, because
'Carols by Candlelight' and our other Christmas Carol Services had to be cancelled.
In 2021 we repeated the Christmas Carol Nativity Pop-up Trailer — but we were also thrilled to be able to enjoy our 'Carols by Candlelight' in our new meeting place: the beautiful St John's church building. Our previous 'Carols by Candlelight' Service had been in 2019 — in the previous decade!
Nativity Rocks
One year we started an ABC Nativity Rocks Facebook group. This was rock craft with an optional treasure hunt. Participants painted a pebble with a picture or words related to the Nativity and hid it in a public place. Finders posted photos of found rocks on the facebook group, tracking the rocks as they were found and re-hidden.
