St Anne’s Parish Church

Worship is the most important activity of the Christian Community. All the other things we do as Christians spill out from this. 

At St Anne’s we aim to provide, over the month, a rich tapestry of worship, from the formal and traditional to relaxed and children/young family orientated.

Our worship feeds deeply from the well of Anglicanism. Central to the Christian life is feeding on Christ, in word and sacrament and then living out the Christ-like life in the world. The rhythm of our worship draws us in to ponder the mystery of God’s love for us in Christ and empowers us to serve him in our daily lives, at home, at work, at play. 

This is our Worship pattern

SUNDAY SERVICES

7.30am Morning Prayer
8.00am Eucharist
10.00am PARISH EUCHARIST
12 Noon Baptisms
6.00pm Evening Prayer

You will be very welcome at any of these services.

A few notes about these services:
We use Book of Common Prayer at 8.00am and 6.00pm on the first Sunday of the Month.
The other 8.00am services use traditional language (thee and thy).
Our 10.00am Communions use modern language and a wide musical repertoire, supported by the organ, our wonderful choir and the music group. 
On the Second Sunday of each month, we have an All Age Communion at which we welcome those who have been baptised the previous month. If you want to ask about baptism, this is the service to come to.
During term time, the Prayer Book Evening Prayer service is sung with a setting of the canticles.


MIDWEEK SERVICES AT ST ANNE’S

Morning Prayer
7.30am Monday – Thursday, Saturday 

Eucharist
10.00am Wednesday
7.15am Friday
7.15am Saints Days (as announced)

Sunbeams (After-School Church)
3.30pm Tuesdays in term time.

St Anne’s is the Parish Church. It was built in 1864 and you can find more information about the history of the Parish and Church here.

St Francis Church

St Francis serves the people of the south side of our Parish. It is fully part of our Parish life and the clergy and leadership team minister in both churches.

Worship at St Francis

Sunday

10.00am Sung Eucharist

Afternoon Tea and Conversation
2.00pm on the second Thursday of the month.

Mother’s Union meets on the 1st Thursday of the month.

We have a regular Coffee Mornings and Afternoon Teas.

St Francis is geographically at the centre of the estate which it serves. It is widely used by a variety of groups and hosts meetings for Sale Moor Community Partnership.

We have a Toddler Group that meets on a Monday morning.
Red Dragon Karate meets on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Keep Fit meets on Thursday mornings.

If you wish to hire the building please phone 0161 962 3248

Activities in the Parish

Children’s Church
Sundays at 10.00am

We meet in term time in the Church Hall. There, we learn about God through worship and activity and then join in the Christian community towards the end of their worship over in the Church.

For more information, phone 0161 283 0563

Youth Club
Fridays at 6.00pm – 7.30pm

The Youth Club is for Years 4 – 7. We meet in term time in the Church Hall for fun and games. There is a tuckshop and good adult supervision. 

For more information, phone 0161 283 0563

Sunbeams
Tuesdays 3.30pm – 4.30pm

So many families cannot come to Church on a Sunday. Sunbeams is our After-School Church. It meets on a Tuesday in term time, immediately after school. We begin with time of games and play, a drink and a biscuit. At about 4.00pm, we move into a time of worship and learning. 

Mothers & Toddlers
Friday 9.15am – 11.00am

A chance for adults (mums, dads, grandparents, carers) with young children to meet and play. Drinks and biscuits and dangerously more-ish bacon and sausage butties.

For more information, phone 0161 282 6357

Reading Group
Mondays at about 6 weekly intervals

Do you read and never have a chance to talk about it. The Book Group is your opportunity to read and talk! Books are chosen from the Church Times (www.churchtimes.co.uk/) and cover a variety of genre. 

For more information, phone 0161 973 4145


Wednesday Lunch
Wednesdays at 12 Noon.

On Wednesdays, Lunch is offered for local people. A chance to meet lots of folk and have great meal at a very attractive price.

ACF
1st Monday of the month at 7.30pm in the Church Hall.

The Church Fellowship is a strong body of men and women who meet monthly to listen to speakers and to enjoy Christian fellowship with one another. 

For more information, phone 0161 962 1925

Mothers’ Union (www.themothersunion.org)
1st Thursday of the month at 2.30pm in St Francis.
2nd Monday of the month at 8.00pm in the Church Hall.

The Mothers’ Union is a worldwide organisation. Our local branch meets across the parish and draws its members together to learn, to listen, to pray and to play and to respond to the concerns of the MU locally and nationally

For more information, phone 0161 962 3824 

Overseas Group

The Overseas Group gathers to pray and to learn about the Church across the world. The Group keeps the Church focused on Project 404 run by USPG (www.uspg.org.uk) which works with disadvantaged young men and women in Madagascar. The Group also advises the Church on its distribution of charitable monies.

For more information, phone 0161 969 0067

Girl Guiding

St Anne’s hosts 2nd Sale Moor Guiding groups and welcomes 1st Sale Moor Brownies as well. 
2nd Sale Moor meets at the Church Hall on Trinity Road.
2nd Sale Moor Rainbows – Wednesday 5.00pm – 6.00pm 0161 973 4145
2nd Sale Moor Brownies – Wednesday 6.30pm – 8.00pm 0161 976 5972
2nd Sale Moor Guides – Tuesday 7.30pm – 9.00pm 0161 286 1623

1st Sale Moor Brownies – Wednesday 6.30pm - 8.00pm 

Scouting

9th Sale Scouts are sponsored by St Anne’s. They meet at Budworth, next to St Francis Church. 

Beavers – Wednesday 6.15pm – 7.30pm
Cubs - Tuesday 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Scouts – Wednesday 7.30pm – 9.15pm

Choir

Our choir is a four-part choir (SATB) with some forty enthusiastic members whose ages span seventy or more years. The choir rehearses on Friday evening: the Junior Choristers beginning at 6.45pm and the Seniors arrive a little later and stay longer.

The Juniors are trained in the “Voice for Life” scheme of the Royal School of Church Music. The progress through their “in house” badges before achieving the Dean’s and Bishop’s awards. As well as developing skils in traditional church music, they enjoy preparing more secular and even jazzy works for performance in Parish concerts which are normally held in summer.

The full choir is kept busy preparing various styles of music for our services: we sing anthems each month as well as for special feasts and holy days. Larger scale works, such as Faure’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s “Beatus Vir”, are prepared for special occasions. At Christmas, carols sung in the open air raise money for charities and we visit local residential homes and sing round the wards of our local hospital on Christmas Eve.

At the All Age Communion Service – held on the Second Sunday of the month – there is an instrumental group to lead the hymn singing. This group is drawn from both the congregation and the choir – typical of the team spirit in the music-making at St Anne’s with St Francis.

There is a splendid two-manual Wadsworth traker action organ in the Church and organist is kept very busy playing for weddings and funerals as well as for the Sunday services.