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
Read the latest news from St John's and other churches in the Parish Grouping here. We also offer an RSS Newsfeed to alert you when new items are added to the news page.
St John's News, the newsletter of the congregation is published both in print and on-line. Read the latest edition (Winter 2009/10) on-line. (Requires pdf reader - Download Adobe Reader™).
Visit the Newsletter Archive to read past issues.
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:
- to worship God,
- to help people to come to faith in Jesus Christ
- to help them grow in faith and go out in service.
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.
