Courses

Throughout the year several courses and seminars are offered as part of the Diocese of Liverpool's educational programme.

Canon Dr Rod Garner is the Diocesan Theological Consultant and runs short, informal courses of study in Liverpool, Ormskirk and Southport each spring and autumn.

Dates, Speakers & Themes

This year's Summer meetings are devoted to the exciting and demanding task of how we communicate God's truth in a distracted and sometimes indifferent world.
Congregations shrivel without effective preaching and over these four weeks we hope to raise the bar!

The Art of Performance
The first meeting will explore new and imaginative ways of communicating the gospel. The emphasis here will be on performance - the movements, gestures and engagement of all that we are that bring freshness and relevance to the old, old story.
We are very fortunate to have Dr. Geoffrey Stevenson to lead this session for us. He worked for 30 years as an actor and has edited The Future of Preaching to be published later this year.
The next session will reflect on the personal and spiritual life of the preacher – the praying, quietness, study and reflection that help to shape a challenging sermon.
In our third meeting the focus will be on the short word that presented well can hit the mark. Again, we have managed to attract a distinguished visiting speaker. Paul Johns is Director of The College of Preachers and a Methodist Lay Preacher who has also been a regular contributor to Thought for the Day on Radio 4.
The final session will offer some models of powerful preaching - past and present - that we can learn from as we take on what Lord Coggan once described as the 'joyful tyranny' of the pulpit.
We have every hope that this Summer School will maintain the high standards of recent years and look forward to welcoming Readers and their ministerial colleagues in impressive numbers!
The series has a certain topicality given a recent survey commissioned by the College of Preachers. One conclusion to emerge from the survey across the denominations is that "sermons are not sufficiently challenging or motivating… They nourish but they are not challenging people to go out and look at the world differently". We can discuss this and much more in June!
To book a place for June please complete the slip and return it to the Life Long Learning Office by 26th April.
There is no charge but you do need to make a reservation. A programme with final details will be sent out in May.

Click here for Booking Form

SUNDAYS
8.30am Holy Communion
10.15am Parish Communion (First Sundays in month are usually a Family Communion with children taking part)
10.15am Sunday School
(For 3 year olds upwards - on all except first Sundays and school holidays)
6.30pm Evening Prayer

WEEKDAYS
11.30am Tuesdays
Holy Communion
7.15pm Wednesdays
Choral Evensong
7.15pm 1st Friday in month
Book of Common Prayer Communion

OTHER SERVICES
(e.g for Saints Days): as announced

Practising members of other Christian denominations are invited to receive Holy Communion.
If you are not confirmed but would like to receive a blessing please come forward with other communicants and place your hands below the altar rail.

We hope you will join us for refreshments in the Parish Centre after the Service