On Christmas Day at 9.30am, the people at Holy Innocents will celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ with a Eucharist (holy communion service) led by our bishop, the Right Reverend Dr Peter Carrell. Peter will also preach the sermon. We welcome anyone who would like to join with us to mark this special day in our Christian calendar. In other news, our Toddler Tunes whanau recently met for their final session of 2025. See some delightful pics of the occasion here.
Wednesday 29/10 at 10.30am in the hall next to Holy Innocents, Church Street, Amberley. Bring your preschoolers along for music, movement and play. Relax with a cuppa and some morning tea.
We’re inviting all parishioners and members of the wider community – anyone who appreciates Rev Meg – to come along to Holy Innocents church this Sunday 27/7 at 9.30am and help us give Meg a good send-off with our thanks for all she has done in her three years as our vicar, and our blessings for her future ministry. Mums and caregivers from the Toddler Tunes group – you are most welcome. After Sunday’s church service, we’ll present Meg with some gifts as a small token of our thanks and then have a lovely morning tea. There will be a card to sign. (Regular parishioners please bring some morning tea to share if you can and would like to.) Please come, one and all!
Come join us and journey through the darkness of the cross to the light of the resurrection
PALM SUNDAY SERVICE
We will gather at 9.30am this Sunday (13th April), starting outside our parish hall, where the “palm” branches and our palm crosses will be blessed and we’ll hear a reading from Luke’s gospel about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. Then we will together slowly process, singing, around the church grounds and into Holy Innocents church, for the service of prayer, song, music to listen to, and poetry on the theme of Palm Sunday. We’d love to see you.
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
This is an ecumenical service on Good Friday 18 April. Starting at 9:30am outside the Amberley library we will all process, carrying a cross in turns, to the Presbyterian church where Rev Robert will lead the church ministers and people in a short service of remembrance of the horrors of the cross and Jesus’ death. A shared lunch will follow.
EASTER DAY
On Easter Day, Sunday 20 April, we will have at Holy Innocents church at 9:30am an Eucharist to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead and bringing new life. It remembers how the resurrection fundamentally changed the course of human history and God’s story with His people. Hot cross buns follow.
Join us this Friday (29 November) at 5.30pm for a family night out. Bring your takeaway dinner – we’ll provide the drinks and snacks for the movie, which will start at about 6.00pm. Where? The Anglican Church hall on Church Street, Amberley. See you there!
On Tuesday nights at the moment we are running a course that explores the Christian faith. It is called Alpha. We start at 7:30pm with dessert and then watch a talk and have a discussion with a cup of tea. All finished by 9:15pm. You are very welcome to join us in the Church Hall on Church Street.
We are excited to announce the launch of Toddler Tunes, starting on Wednesday 15th March, 10.30am in the parish hall. For more info, including dates for 2023, see the dedicated Toddler Tunes page on our website.
Meet Reverend Meg Harvey, who has been the Vicar of Amberley Parish since August 2022. As a parish we want to warmly welcome anyone who hasn’t been to church for a while and is thinking of trying church again, anyone who has never been a “churchgoer”, all new Christians and those wanting to explore the faith, and all visitors, newcomers, holiday-makers, and passers-by.
Whoever you are, you are most welcome.
Please see the “Church Services” menu above for church service dates and times. This is updated each month.
Last Saturday, our own Rev’d Lynnette Lightfoot was collated by Bishop Victoria as the new Archdeacon for North Canterbury. Members of Lynnette’s parishes – Amberley and Woodend-Pegasus – travelled to Christchurch to witness her accepting this role. The formalities took place during the Diocesan Synod at St Christopher’s Church, Avonhead, and was celebrated during lunch. May God bless you, Rev’d Lynnette, as you undertake this ministry over what is a fairly large geographical area — but at least the scenery is lovely on the journeys between parishes!
This post is in support of a man-friendly community event coming soon to North Canterbury (Sunday 25 May—’The Big Questions’, Waikari Hall, 11.30am–2.00pm).
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