About

St Margaret’s Church serves the Holyrood district of Prestwich; St George’s Church serves Simister.

Sunday Services at St Margaret’s are at 8am (Holy Communion), 9.45am (Sung Eucharist, also live-streamed) and 4pm (some Sundays, said, style varies). Sunday School runs in the Church House during the 9.45am Sunday service, during term time.

Sunday services at St George’s are at 11.15am (Holy Communion).

St Margaret’s offers a service of Holy Communion at 10am every Wednesday, which is also live-streamed.

Livestreamed services can be found on our Facebook page.

All of our regular and occasional services are listed on the calendar.

Weddings, baptisms, and funerals can be arranged, just Contact us. Our Baptism Policy can be downloaded here: Baptism Policy 2018

praying-handsOn the Sunday Service sheet we list all of the people who are sick and have asked us to pray for them individually, by name.

At the Wednesday 10.00am service we again pray by name for the sick as well as for those who are long term sick, housebound or in residential care.

Please refer to these documents for our daily prayers and readings during 2022: Our Daily Bread – July 22 A4

If you have anyone you want to be prayed for please contact us.

Our first Mission Action Plan was distributed during services on Sunday 16 October 2017. You can also download a copy here friendly-map. The follow-up to this, “2018: Year of Mission” was given out on Sunday 21 January 2018. Copies can also be downloaded here 2018 Year of Mission Leaflet. 2019 is the Year of Creation. 2019 Year of Creation, and 2020 is the 2020 Year of Service. 2021 is our year to Pause, Pray and prepare: MAP cong letter Feb 2021. 2022 is our year to Build 2022 Building Community Together MAP.

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As well as this website, St Margaret’s and St George’s have a Facebook page, a Twitter feed and a parish app (which you can download from FREE from either the Apple App Store or Google Play for Android). This parish takes eSafety seriously, and workshops have been offered to introduce our social media streams to the congregations, and to give help and advice about staying safe online. You may find the following documents helpful:

Protection of your data is taken very seriously in our parish. You can read our Data Privacy Notice here: Privacy Notice St Mags