You can worship in-person, or join in with worship online.
Our first service on Sunday mornings at St Michael’s is mostly traditional in its style, with more hymns and spoken liturgy than at our contemporary services later in the day. We gather in our historic church building at 9.00 am.
Morning Prayer
On the first Sunday of each month, the 9 o’clock service is Morning Prayer. This is a simple time of worship, with hymns, prayers, bible readings and a sermon.
Eucharist
The 9 o’clock service on all other Sundays each month includes communion. We welcome all who know and love the Lord to share bread and wine in remembrance of Christ’s death and resurrection.
At all our services there is the opportunity for anyone to receive prayer, for themselves or any other concerns.
The 9 o’clock service is usually finished soon after 10.00 am and we then meet for coffee and conversation in the Old School Rooms on the other side of the village green. This also provides an opportunity to meet and chat with those arriving for the 10.30 am service.
You can come along in-person or join in with worship online.
At 10.30 every Sunday morning we hold a more contemporary worship service for all ages. Worship is led by a live band. This is our most popular service for families with children. We meet in the large auditorium of the St Michael’s Centre.
After about 20 minutes the grown-ups remain in the auditorium for more worship, teaching and prayer together. The young people gather in their groups for creative fun, activities and learning in their different age groups at Sunday Club. A creche is also provided for those with very small children. And there are discussion and activity groups for teenagers too.
Once a month we share communion all together as a church family. The service leaders guide us through the simple act of sharing of bread and wine, with clear explanations for everyone to follow. There is always non-alcoholic wine or juice, and gluten-free bread available for those who need it.
At all our services there will be an opportunity for anyone to receive prayer, for themselves or for anything else that concerns them.
The 10.30 service is usually finished shortly before 12 midday, and we share tea, coffee, squash, biscuits and conversation afterwards.
You can come along in-person, or join in with worship online.
The evening celebration at St Michael’s is usually the most informal and imaginative of our regular worship services. The 6.30 service is held in the auditorium of the St Michael’s Centre. Congregation members come from all walks of life, including those who find it hard to get up on Sunday mornings.
Worship is led by a band and new songs are very often given a test drive at the 6.30pm celebration.
The teaching comes from a wider variety of speakers and frequently explores quite challenging and stimulating subjects.
As with all our services at St Michael’s, the evening celebration includes the opportunity for anyone to receive prayer. It’s not unusual for there to be an extended time of ministry at the 6.30 celebration, when we allow more time and space to listen, to pray for one another and to receive God’s blessing.
We share communion together at the 6.30pm service on the first Sunday of the month.
On the first Sunday of each month the traditional Anglican service of Evensong is held in the church building at 5.00pm. This is a simple act of worship, with spoken liturgy, Bible reading, hymns and a sermon. This service is in-person only, and is not live-streamed.
As at all our services, there is the opportunity for anyone to be prayed for about any concerns at all.
Messy church does what it says on the tin. This is church for people who find sitting still and being quiet impossible. It’s fun, there’s noise, we make stuff, there’s food and there’s lots of mess.
Messy Church enables people of all ages to belong to Christ together through their local church. It is a way of being church which is particularly suited to families, but welcoming to all. It meets at a time and on a day that suits local families and is particularly aimed at people who have never belonged to a church before.
Osbourne Court is the modern residential care home that sits right next door to the St Michael’s Centre on North Road in Stoke Gifford.
Once a month, on a Sunday afternoon, we gather there with residents, their families and carers for a simple act of worship together. Our service includes hymns, testimony, a short talk and some prayers.
We also offer a simple communion service at Osbourne Court on a Thursday morning – usually the second Thursday of the month at 11.00am.
Details of particular dates and times will be made available to residents in the care home.
Long-time Church family member Jeanne Callow passed away in February aged 92. Details of her funeral are below:
Her coffin will be received into St Michael’s Church on Wednesday 15 March at 4.30pm and there will be a very short service as the coffin is received. All welcome.
The funeral service is at Westerleigh Crematorium (Waterside Chapel) on Thursday 16 March 10:15am. Family flowers only. The service will be followed by a reception at Westerleigh.
All are welcome to one or both services, but please let us know if you are coming to Westerleigh – email admin@stmichaelsbristol.org or call the church office.
Alternatively the service is being live streamed – details below:
Please go towatch.obitus.com and enter the username and password exactly as below:
Our ten-thirty will begin outside with everyone gathering around the war memorial on The Green at 10.25am. If you are worshipping at the nine o’clock, why not stay for coffee and then attend the act of Remembrance?
We will be joined by the Royal British Legion, and local Uniformed Groups. A short act of Remembrance will take place, with the laying of wreaths and 2 minutes silence.
After this everyone else will gather in the auditorium in St Michael’s Centre, from there, our young people will go to their groups in the usual places. Our live-streamed online service will begin at 10.45.
The Bishop of Bristol, Mike Hill, officially dedicated the new church and community centre in Stoke Gifford this weekend. It means the building is now licensed by the Church of England to be used for worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals.
Bishop Mike presented the formal documents for the dedication to the congregation of St Michael’s at the evening celebration on Sunday 10 May 2015.
George Lord, a retired member of the local community, received the licence on behalf of everyone who worships at St Michael’s Church.
The first sections of the new building are now open, with the ground floor of the main auditorium seating over 300 people. Fundraising continues for the final phase of the project – to complete the rest of the community facilities, improve the historic church building, refurbish the old school rooms and support outreach projects elsewhere in the UK and around the world.
