Celebrating Christmas 2022 with Ashbourne Baptist Church
at St John's, on the Buxton Hill
We have a choice of Carol Services. Everyone is welcome to one - or all - of them!
We look forward to seeing you. Happy Christmas!
Family Carol Service Carols By Candlelight Childrens’ Carol Service Christmas Day Celebration
Family Carol Service
11am, Sunday 18th December
at St John's (on the Buxton hill)
Everyone is welcome - come and enjoy the run up to Christmas with us! It's a special time to help you - or your whole family - prepare for Christmas.
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Carols by Candlelight
6pm, Sunday 18th December
at St John's (on the Buxton hill)
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.
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Childrens’ Carol Service
6.30pm, Tuesday 20th December
at St John's (on the Buxton hill)
Boys Brigade & Girls' Association Parents, please come along with your friends and family. The children have been preparing a very special carol for you. There will be light refreshments after the service.
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Christmas Day Service
11am Sunday 25th December
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...
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Reminders of other Christmasses:
Christmas Carol Nativity Pop-up Trailer
We didn't want anyone in Ashbourne to miss out on Christmas - and it's truth is so vital all of us that we couldn't just let Christmas pass us by!
Because we couldn't run our usual Christmas Carol Services during Lockdown 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.
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'Carols by Candlelight' and our other Christmas Carol Services had to be cancelled in 2020, due to Covid lockdown — hence the need to be inventive with the pop-up Carols trailer! Our previous 'Carols by Candlelight' Service had been in 2019 — in the previous decade!
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 metting place, the beautiful St John's chruch building.
We like to change things up occasionally! 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.
