At 10am, also every Sunday, this congregation meets at "The Cat" pub around the corner. This entirely separate congregation have been growing there for 30 years and follow a more simple version of Anglican worship. They enjoy singing together with more contemporary worship music, and appreciate the informality and flexibility of the pub environment. There is also time for refreshments and conversation at the end of this service.

At 10.30am, every single Sunday morning, our traditional congregation meets in the main worship space. This community use traditional forms of worship which have been handed on to us over the centuries through The Church of England, but always in an informal and accessible way. We enjoy the power and beauty of our space and are accompanied by the church's impressive organ as we sing old and modern hymns and songs. You'll hear an engaging, relevant message from the Christian Scriptures, and there is time at the end of the service to enjoy refreshments and conversations together.

This congregation is led jointly by our Vicar (Rev'd Steven Herron), and our Associate Pioneer Minister (Rev'd Alex Brown).

We are a praying and a prayerful people. We believe that God loves to have us deepen and grow our relationship with him and the world around us as we pray for the needs of the world, our Island and each other. Apart from praying throughout all of our services, and in the week, and at dedicated prayer events, we come together on Tuesday and Friday mornings to pray. We follow a simple format where we prayerfully read three short passages from the Bible, pray for the needs around us, listen to God, and conclude with the Lord's Prayer and a blessing. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to join us. Just pitch up to St Ninian's Church before 9.30am and we'll be there!

As communities of faith linked to St Ninian's Church, we are passionate about sustaining and healing the world around us. This includes care for creation. This growing community of people from in and outside of the church world meet up monthly and ad-hoc to help transform our grounds into an ever-increasingly bio-diverse and locally 're-wilded' space. We want our entire grounds to be filled with colour, life and scent, to reflect our duty to care for this 'Eden' we live in, and to be a place of calm and peace for all of humanity. If you garden, weed, plant, trim, sow, lop or water (or would like to) join us.

Fancy being a part of a friendly team of people who keep our historic building alive?

This is where the rubber hits the road! Keeping St Ninian's looking beautiful and functional doesn't just happen by chance! Join the group of working party heroes who bundle down to church on the first Saturday of each month. We clean, we vacuum, we garden, we sort, we laugh and if you can't do any of those things, feel free to randomly turn up with morale-boosting cake or biscuits and you'll be welcomed into the hero-fold immediately! Whatever your level of skill or energy, mobility or experience, the more the merrier.

Ebb & Flow is a community which began its life with Pioneer Church and is now also rooted under the St Ninian's Church banner. Monthly evenings of free, gentle modern worship songs from the Ebb & Flow band, interspersed with space to pray, to read out scripture, to wait quietly for God to speak to us, or simply to 'be' in God's presence. The pace is gentle, the structure fluid, and the focus always on allowing ourselves to know God at a deeper personal level. We also have a community artist who paints during our worship, and who speaks afterward about what God was saying to her as she painted.

At the end there is a 'soft ending', where people can grab more refreshments, or pray with someone they trust, about anything that's on their heart.

This is a fairly new all-age community for families and friends who want to be able to explore and deepen faith experientially without separating off different ages. This monthly community meet on Sunday afternoons to explore the Bible through activity and discussion, sing music with the band, pray together, and listen to each other, valuing the input and leadership of the youngest as well as the oldest.

This community is run in partnership with Pioneer Church, with leaders coming from both Pioneer and St Ninian's - an exciting dual-church congregation. If you're into creativity, informality and explorative conversation, this may be for you and your family.