Welcome to St. Stephen's Church Hightown

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"St. Stephen’s Church, Hightown, is integral to community life,
welcoming and joyful in worship,
and inspiring and loving in our ministry to children....."

We are a small, welcoming and busy church at the foot of the railway bridge in Hightown; very much a part of the local community. Eucharistic worship, every Sunday at 10.30am, is ”middle of the road” and there are alternative worship opportunities: BCP (Book of Common Prayer) Evensong every Sunday at 6.00pm.

Enquirers and Nurture courses are run regularly. New members and visitors are always given a special welcome. St. Stephen’s Youth Club meets every Friday in term-time at 6.00pm in the Church Hall.

We have a large and excellent, well-equipped parish hall, which is available to hire.

St. Stephen’s has a friendly and inclusive feel, which comes from the warmth and enthusiasm of its people. If you haven’t already, why not give us a try?

November Message

Hi All,

Because of Tier 3 lockdown, sadly, we can’t go ahead with the Remembrance Service around our war memorial this year.

However, on our village website on Sunday 8th November at 10.45am there will be a short service to watch. In this service, we will remember all those who lost their lives in the two world wars, those who have lost their lives in more recent conflicts and all those whose lives have been marred by war. In the service there will be a short video of Father David and I laying wreaths at the war memorial on behalf of all in Hightown. We will lay those wreaths with particular gravity this year as we know others can’t join us to pay their respects. It will feel a real privilege to do this on behalf of our village.

As we move towards Remembrance Sunday, I’ve been reading about the famous football match which happened during the World War 1 in No-Man’s land on the Western Front between the Germans and the British on Christmas Day and learning this wasn’t the whole truth. I’ve always presumed this football match was a spontaneous short burst of the Christmas Spirit. And a one-off. I now know that truces were more common than this.

In his book on trench warfare in the First World War, historian Tony Ashworth describes, what he calls, the 'live and let live system', where there were local truces and agreements not to fire at each other, developed by men along the front throughout the early months of the war. These often began with agreement not to attack each other at tea, meal or washing times, and in some places became so developed that whole sections of the front would see few casualties for extended periods of time.

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Revd. Jan Ashton Vicar of Hightown, Liverpool. Telephone: 0151 929 3971 Email Me Here