Welcome to the Website of St John's Parish Church, Carluke.


 

What's Happening?

What's on next week...

All events and activities are at St John's unless otherwise indicated.

Sunday 16 November

11:00 - Morning Worship, led by Rev Roy Cowieson.
Youth Church meets as usual.
More about the Youth Church.
Time for Fellowship and Traidcraft Stall after service.
19:00 - Evening Service in Kirkton Church

Monday 17 November

19:30 - Qigong and Tai Chi in Small Hall

Tuesday 18 November

13:30 - Young Womans Group - Coffee afternoon.

Wednesday 19 November

01:30 - Guild - Bible bring-and-buy.
More about the Guild
18:30 - JAFFA Club.
More about JAFFA
19:45 - Come Ceilidh. New members welcome - free first night for a try-out session.

Thursday 20 November

10:00 - Kettle's On!
10:30 - Thursday Service.
More about the Thursday Service

Saturday 22 November

10:00 - Carluke Churches Christian Aid Committee bag packing at Somerfields

Sunday 23 November

11:00 - Morning Worship, led by Rev Roy Cowieson.
Youth Church meets as usual.
More about the Youth Church.
Time for Fellowship and Traidcraft Stall after service.

Later...

28 November - Lanark and Carluke Choral Union A Touch of Tartan. Tickets (£7) and information from members, or at door.
6 December - Coffee morning in aid of children's charities
14 December - Christian Aid Christmas Service
19 December - Christmas concert featuring SHINE

Diary updated: 15 November 2008

About this website

This website has been set up to provide information about our church, its worship and other activities. If there is anything you would like to know about us, but cannot find on this site, please contact us for further information.

 

Listen on-line

An audio file of most Sunday morning services is uploaded to the website. Check out the latest uploads here.

Please feel free to download and listen to sermons and services which can be found on our Audio Files page.

 

News from St John's

We offer an RSS Newsfeed, providing information about the activities of the congregation and parish grouping.

St John's News, the newsletter of the congregation is puiblished both in print and on-line. Read the latest edition (Autumn 2008) on-line. (Requires pdf reader - Download Adobe Reader™).

 

Who we are

St John's is one of three congregations of the Church of Scotland (the others are Kirkton and St Andrew's), which between them serve the town of Carluke and outlying farms and villages such as Kilcadzow and Yieldshields.

Although each church has an 'official' parish, covering about a third of the town, their memberships are drawn from the whole area, and beyond.

There has been, in the past, much co-operation between the three congregations and, in 2005 moves were made to set up a more formal Parish Grouping arrangement which will see closer bonds between them and more effective Christian ministry in the town.

The churches of the Parish Grouping also work closely with churches of other denominations in the town, including Roman Catholic, Baptist and United Reformed churches.

 

Come and Join Us

If you live locally, and have no other church connection, we extend a warm invitation for you to come and worship with us. Click here for details of Normal Worship Times, or check out the What's on... column on the left for details of any upcoming special services.


Where we came from

St John's, Carluke, was born out of the Disruption of 1843. Starting as a small group of seceders worshipping in a local inn, the Free Church in Carluke became the United Free Church of St John's in 1900. Reunification of the church came in 1929, when St John's became, as it is now, the Church of Scotland congregation of Carluke St John's.

Find out more...

Some milestones in the history of St Johns

A chronological list of the ministers of St John's


What we do

Our Mission Statement:

The purpose of St John's is

 

Find out more...

...about the various activities in which St John's is involved at a congregational, town, national and international level.

...about the "Nazareth Diaries" - Notes from Mike Frew's 2003 Study Leave.