• We're St Ninian's Church.

    St Ninian's Church is a growing collection of congregations who are all looking to explore and deepen our Christian faith with each other in different ways.

    We're wanting to grow in faith with each other.

    We're wanting to serve human need around us.

    We're wanting to help others come to know God too.

  • Traditional and New Communities

    St Ninian's Church is a modern group of faith communities where we value what is ancient as well as embracing what is new.

    Here are the main ways we explore and grow faith together at the moment.

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    St Ninian's on Sunday mornings

    Weekly at 10.30 on Sundays

    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).

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    Sunday @ 10 (The Cat With No Tail pub)

    Weekly at 10am on Sundays

    St. Ninian's are linked in a working partnership with Sunday @ 10.

    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.

    Sunday@10 is led by Chris Wildman.

    To jump to their Facebook page - click here.

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    Ebb & Flow worship.

    Monthly, Saturday Evenings.

    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. To explore this further, please contact Rev Alex on WhatsApp (07624 428053) or email him here.

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    SHOAL All-Age Community.

    Monthly, Sunday Afternoons.

    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. To find out more, contact Rev Alex on WhatsApp (07624 428053) or email him here.

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    Morning Prayer

    9.30am-10.15am Tuesdays and Fridays

    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!

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    Soil & Soup

    Monthly and ad-hoc, outside in the grounds.

    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. To join us, message us by email here.

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    Working Party:

    Monthly, Saturday mornings 10am-12pm

    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.

    10am - 12pm usually on every first Saturday of the month - but sometimes we need to change that. To find out more about this community of heroes (and to get the date right), email the wardens here.

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    Mothers' Union at St Ninian's

    St Ninian's Mothers' Union is an active group who usually meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 2.30pm and we'd love to see you!

    The organisation today is made up of hundreds of individual Mothers' Union charities spread across 83 countries, making up four million members worldwide. Mothers' Union members work together to solve challenges in their local communities. By helping to restore and strengthen relationships in families and communities, the movement gives a sense of belonging and purpose. To contact us about what happens, email the wardens and they'll put you in touch with the right person.

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    Pioneer Church, Douglas

    Pioneer Church is partnered with us and there are some things that we share the leadership of. It's a network of people who are exploring and deepening faith in non-trad ways such as meeting on beaches, in glens, in cafes, on courses, through reading books, over creative arts, and more.

    If you think this might be more your style, or you'd like to try both ways to engage with God - check the pioneer website (www.pioneer.im).

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    Facebook

    Check out our St Ninian's Facebook here.

    You can also use messenger to contact us from this link.

  • Want to get involved?

    Whether you're looking to explore faith for the first time, looking to reconnect with faith, looking for a place of worship while on holiday, or you want to deepen faith with a group of like-minded people - we'd love to connect in with you.

    We love talking with you about how God is moving in your life. We love to hear what you feel he's doing, saying, or guiding you in, and we can guide you if this is new.

    Hit the link below, you can email one of our two ministers (Steven or Alex), and from there you'll be able to meet up for a cuppa and a chat to get you going.

    Getting involved

  • CPAS (our Patrons)

    The Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS) are an Anglican evangelical mission agency. That's three jargon words right there, but basically that means:

    • they sit squarely within the Church of England (Anglican);
    • they are passionate about telling others about the relationship with God humanity can have thanks to Jesus (evangelism);
    • and engaged in mission (that everyone shoud have the opportunity to hear about Jesus' life-changing work, and have repeated opportunities to respond to that should they choose).

    They believe that the message of the gospel is relevant to all people, and that effective local church ministry is the key to seeing men, women, young people and children come to find faith in Christ, should they so choose.

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