Celebrating Christmas 2023 with Ashbourne Baptist Church
at St John's, on the Buxton Hill
We have a choice of Carol Services - there are even two Christmas Eve services this year, as Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday.
Everyone is welcome to one - or all - of them! We look forward to seeing you
- we meet in the main church building, not the community hall behind.
Happy Christmas!
Family Carol Service Carols By Candlelight Childrens’ Carol Service Christmas Day Celebration New Year's Eve Morning Family Service
CHRISTMAS DAY CELEBRATION
11am Monday
25th December 2023
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
Everyone is welcome - come and savour the most special thing about Christmas with us! And, when you get home, the mouthwatering smell and cosy warmth of Christmas dinner in the oven will welcome you.
Keep scrolling for other Christmas Services...
FAMILY CAROL SERVICE
11am Sunday
24th December 2023
— 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'?
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT
6pm Sunday
24th December 2023
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
With christmassy refreshments
Our evening service will be candlelit - with plenty of carols, readings from the Christmas story... and refreshments afterwards. An atmospheric and special time to help you - or your whole family - prepare for Christmas.
CHILDRENS’ CAROL SERVICE
6.15pm Tuesday
Tuesday 19th December 2023
— 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.
NEW YEAR'S EVE SERVICE
11am
Sunday 31st December 2023
(no evening service)
— at St John's on the Buxton hill
Start 2024 fresh — everyone is welcome!
Come and prepare for the New Year with us...
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.
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.
