Happy New Year
Celebrating Christmas and New Year with
Ashbourne Baptist Church
This year, why not join us? We meet...
Every Sunday
11am | 6pm
at St John's, uphill from the Market Place
Sunday services are held in the church building — not in the community hall behind.
Family Carol Service Carols By Candlelight Childrens’ Candlelit Carol Service Christmas Day Celebration
CHRISTMAS DAY CELEBRATION 2025
11am Thursday
25th December 2025
— at St John's, uphill from the Market Place
A Christmas Day to remember!
Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the most real, most special thing about Christmas with us... it's so much more than 'a season'. It's a season with a reason...
(keep scrolling for other Christmas Services... )
FAMILY CAROL SERVICE
11am Sunday
21st December 2025
— at St John's Church, uphill from the Market Place
Everyone is welcome - come and enjoy the run up to Christmas with us! It's a special time for you - or your whole family - prepare for Christmas.
And why not come again in the evening, to our lovely Carols By Candlelight for an extra special ?
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT SERVICE
6pm Sunday
21st Dec 2025
— at St John's, uphill from the Market Place
Everyone is welcome - come and enjoy the run up to Christmas with us! It's a special time for you - or your whole family - prepare for Christmas.
CHILDRENS’ CANDLELIT CAROL SERVICE
6.15pm Tuesday
16th Dec 2025
— at St John's, uphill from the Market Place
For everyone! There will be light refreshments after the service.
Boys Brigade & Girls' Association parents — please come along with your friends and family.
Christmasses Past...
A brief recap...
Christmas Sermons
Mostly audio, but some video Christmas audio recordings are available online.
Christmas Carols 'Nativity Pop-up Trailer'
In 2020 we took a Christmas Carol Nativity Pop-up Trailer around various streets of Ashbourne, local schools and nearby villages, with a Pop-up Christmas Nativity — 'Son et Lumiere' style. Different areas of the stable scene were lit as Nathan's retelling of the first Christmas progressed, to illustrate each Bible account or hymn. Local people participated enthusiastically from their own doorways.
The Thrill of Resuming 'Carols By Candlelight'!
It was the 2020 Covid lockdown that prompted our pop-up Carols trailer, because
'Carols by Candlelight' and our other Christmas Carol Services had to be cancelled.
In 2021 we repeated the Christmas Carol Nativity Pop-up Trailer
— but we were also thrilled to be able to enjoy our
'Carols by Candlelight' in our new meeting place: the beautiful St John's church building.
Our previous 'Carols by Candlelight' Service had been in 2019 — in the previous decade!
Nativity Rocks
One year we started an ABC Nativity Rocks Facebook group. This was rock craft with an optional treasure hunt. Participants painted a pebble with a picture or words related to the Nativity and hid it in a public place. Finders posted photos of found rocks on the facebook group, tracking the rocks as they were found and re-hidden.
