Welcome to the parish of St. Peter’s Halliwell.
Rev Alan writes…
A Marvellous Message Mission Week! It’s been a fabulous week with the Message School of Evangelism team. The team were Rapha and Vinni from Brazil, Xandra from the Netherlands, and their team leader Kayleigh, from Surrey. They arrived on Tuesday and delivered two fantastic days of lessons and lunch sessions at Canon Slade. In the evenings, they visited our Tread youth group and the boys’ discipleship group.
On Thursday, they came to Oasis and spent time chatting with everyone before joining in with the worship and readings in church. In the afternoon, they visited Year 6 at St Peter’s Smithills Dean Primary School for a fun-packed session of games, presentations and discussions around resilience and the school values. On Friday, they spent the day with Years 5 and 6 at Church Road Primary School.
More information in this week’s newsletter.
Morning Service theme - Jesus the Forgiver
The Challenge of Jesus
After Easter we started a new 9-week sermon series called The Challenge of Jesus, as we continue with the over-arching theme this year of Fix Our Eyes on Jesus.
During the series we will be looking at Jesus’ gentle approach to those who find faith challenging; his challenge to share the good news of the Gospel with others; and the challenge of Jesus’ claims to follow him alone as the way to life.
Our morning services from St. Peter’s Church are live-streamed and available to watch later on our YouTube channel.
Evening Sermon series - The Power of the Gospel
Our new evening sermon series, “The Power of the Gospel”, focuses on the book of Romans. We are looking at how God understands mercy. Indeed, Romans chapters 1-8 is an exposition of what Paul understands about God’s mercy and grace.
We meet every Sunday at 6.30pm in St. Peter’s Church and the reading and talk from this service is available on our YouTube channel.
Oasis
Oasis is our midweek service – a time of fellowship and friendship at St Peter’s!
Refreshments are served in the church lounge from 10.30am and at 11.30am there is a 30 minute service in church for those who would like to attend.
Do come and join us – everyone is very welcome for part or all of our time together.
Verse of the Year 2025
Joshua asked the Israelites, “Who are you going to serve?”.
He reminded them just how much God had done for them and encouraged them by his own words: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”
As we commit to serving the Lord this year, we pray together:
Lord Jesus, Thank you for the gift of the church as Jesus’ family on Jesus’ mission.
During 2025, help us to grow in our commitment to one another as your family here in St. Peter’s Parish.
Help us to grow in our commitment to your mission.
Give us strength, faith and wisdom throughout the year, to follow you and play our part in building your church and seeing your kingdom come on earth as in heaven.
Amen
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St. Peter's Church
Barrow Bridge Mission
Smithills Fellowship
St. Andrew's Church
Parish Centre
St. Peter’s parish church is an impressive Grade II listed building at the heart of the parish. In the 1980’s an extension provided a lounge, kitchen and toilets and more recently a welcoming entrance area has been created between this and the church.
Barrow Bridge Mission is situated in an important conservation area on the edge of Bolton. The attractive community is a former model community mill village and comprises former mill owner and worker cottages.
Smithills Fellowship meets in St. Peter’s Smithills Dean CE Primary School and Smithills Hall Chapel. The Chapel forms part of Smithills Hall and is leased from the council.
St. Andrew’s meets in the Hope Centre, which serves the Johnson Fold estate. The centre has been completely refurbished in the last 15 years, to better serve the needs of the surrounding community.
St. Peter’s Parish Centre is a hive of activity most days with church groups and other bookings.
It is also home to the administrative hub of the parish. The office is open Monday to Friday from 9.30am-3pm.
St. Peter's Church
St. Peter’s parish church is an impressive Grade II listed building at the heart of the parish. In the 1980’s an extension provided a lounge, kitchen and toilets and work is currently underway to provide a welcoming entrance area.
Barrow Bridge Mission
Barrow Bridge Mission is situated in an important conservation area on the edge of Bolton. The attractive community is a former model community mill village and comprises former mill owner and worker cottages.
Smithills Fellowship
Smithills Fellowship meets in St. Peter’s Smithills Dean CE Primary School and Smithills Hall Chapel. The Chapel forms part of Smithills Hall and is leased from the council.
St. Andrew's Church
St. Andrew’s meets in the Hope Centre, which serves the Johnson Fold estate. The centre has been completely refurbished in the last 15 years, to better serve the needs of the surrounding community.
Parish Centre
St. Peter’s Parish Centre is a hive of activity most days with church groups and other bookings.
It is also home to the administrative hub of the parish. The office is open Monday to Friday from 9.30am-3pm.
Safeguarding
At St. Peter’s Halliwell we work hard to maintain a safe environment for all. We are committed to implementing the House of Bishops’ safeguarding policies and good practice guidance.
If you have any concerns or enquiries regarding safeguarding, please visit our Safer Church page here for details of who to contact.