St Luke West Holloway

Join us for our daily prayer from Monday - Friday, sharing a short liturgy from the Wild Goose Worship Group.

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As part of St Luke’s commitment to supporting health and wellness we have a new Yoga class with Vikki Poole on Thursday morning with refreshments after. No experience needed.
Mats provided or bring your own. £5 (concessions free).
All welcome - spread the word!

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After a successful launch last Autumn, Craft & Chat is back on Thursdays from 1-3pm.

Come along and no experience necessary. All materials will be provided and feel free to bring craft materials to share.

There will be tea and coffee with biscuits, and you're welcome to bring something to share.

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Short spoken Eucharist with no sermon. All welcome!
(Please wear a face mask).

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Join us at 9.15am for a said communion service. Please wear a face mask, and this service will be streamed through YouTube on alternate weeks.

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Join us for our live-stream service. Click on link, 'more about this event' to be directed to our website and stream link. The service sheet is also available to view here.

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You are warmly welcomed to join us for our 11am Family Service, wherever you find yourself on your faith journey. Please wear a face mask.

Each year at St Luke’s we offer a distinct series of Sunday morning talks to take us through the Lenten season. This year, beginning on the first Sunday in March, our series is called Walk This Way: Signposts and Signals on the Way of Faith

From why we pray to what we believe, each week we’ll take a theme from the Christian story that we might often take for granted… and try and see it through a new lens. As well as three St Luke’s regulars, we’ll have three guest speakers in Malcolm Doney, Ayla Lepine and Liz Adekunle.

Sunday March 6 / Travelling In A Calendar of Faith - Martin Wroe

Sunday March 13 / What’s the Bible for? (and what is it not for?) - Malcolm Doney

Sunday March 20 / What do we believe (and what if we don’t?) - Liz Adekunle

Sunday March 27 / Why do we pray? (and what happens?) - Lizzie Campbell

Sunday April 3 / Saints (and how they’re there for us) - Ayla Lepine

Sunday April 10 / The Church: What is it good for? - Brian Jackson & John MacKenzie

We alternate our livestreaming between this service and our 9.15am said communion. You can find the YouTube link on our website and sign-up to our weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date with all the details (form on our website or email Tina, the parish administrator).

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A group for 21-35s who meet fortnightly on Monday evenings in the hall from 7-9pm.

We bring and share tasty food, plus make space to share reflections on our week, some text or art that's moved us, and have a period of shared silence. For dates in 2022 and more information visit our website to join the whatsapp group.

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A space for parents and their babies to connect, relax and take action for the climate on Tuesday's 10.30-12pm (term time), in the hall.

Are you a new parent looking for places to hang out with your small person?
Do you care about the climate crisis and want to build a community with others, but struggling to balance that with the new reality of parenthood?

Join our new coffee morning, where you're welcome to drop in and plan or take action for climate justice while your baby plays, naps, gurgles or screams.

Drinks provided. Bring yourself, your baby and your hopes for a better world, spread the word!

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Vox Holloway (Latin: “the voice of Holloway”) began in 2009 as a community choral society for all – no auditions, no professions of faith or previous experience of choral singing required – with St Luke’s as its home. It includes participants from far and wide who wouldn't necessarily consider setting foot in a church.

At its first concert, ‘The Messiah’ in December 2009, the choir raised £6,000 for the Umthombo Street Children project in Durban South Africa. At its second, ‘Requiem in Blue’ by Harvey Brough, performed on Palm Sunday, it raised £14,000 for the DEC Haiti appeal. Both were performed to a packed house.

Its director, Justin Butcher, who's also the organist and choirmaster at St Luke’s, says:
“I think my key inspiration is my conviction that singing, perhaps more than any other art form, connects us most profoundly to the mystery of who and what we are – body, mind and spirit – at the same time as connecting us to each other. It’s a crime that so many people grow up thinking they can’t sing and miss out on something that should be both fun, creative and sociable but also a primal encounter with the Divine in the midst of life.”

Rehearsals are every Tuesday at 7.30pm at the church - term time. Sign up at voxholloway.com.

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On the fourth Sunday evening of the month (not December) we meet in the church for a candlelit services of quiet, drawing on Celtic chants and liturgies from The Iona Community.

We sit in a round and create space for silence and to pray for each other and our world.

On alternate fourth Sundays (November, January, March etc) this service is focussed on Prayers for Healing. We name people who would like healing ‘in body, mind or spirit’. If you would like someone’s name to be included (or your own) or to name a community or country, please email [email protected]

The Iona Abbey Service Book explains the service like this: ‘We each stand in need of healing, but in this service we also recognise the social dimension. The healing of divided communities and nations, the healing of the earth itself, have their place alongside the healing of broken bodies, hurt minds and wounded hearts, and of the hurts and divisions within ourselves. Our prayers are complementary to the work of medicine and other forms of healing which are also channels of God’s loving and transforming purpose.’

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We usually meet in the main garden on the first Saturday of every month, 11-2pm all welcome!

No experience needed, just wear sturdy shoes and old clothes to clear, burn and generally tidy up our lovely gardens around the church.

Dates for 2022: 5 March / 2 April / 7 May / 4 June / 2 July / 6 August / 3 September / 1 October / 5 November / 3 December

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We run a youth club every first and third Sunday of the month term time, meeting at the church from 6.30-8pm. Secondary children from Year 7-10 are welcome!

Join us for games, sports, arts and crafts, and other fun activities! Free to attend and bring your friends. For more information please contact our curate Lizzie [email protected]

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