1st and 3rd Sundays of the month are Morning Prayer.
2nd and 4th Sundays of the month are Holy Communion.
If there is a 5th Sunday of the month, it is likely to be Morning Prayer.

This is a Common Worship Service and welcomes everyone.

Chief barista, Bob serves coffee and biscuits after the service for a social catch-up with friends.

A new pattern for 6.30pm Evening Services begins this summer.
1st Sunday of the month is a service of Compline.
2nd Sunday of the month is either Evensong or Compline
3rd Sunday of the month is a service of Compline.
4th Sunday of the month is Sung Evensong.
There is no evening service when there is a 5th Sunday in the month.

A more informal family orientated service.
This is a Common Worship Service and there is usually an activity for children.
Chief barista, Bob serves coffee and biscuits after the service for a social catch-up with friends.

A welcome return of a local choir with a mixture of feel-good music, including songs from the shows, popular music and folk songs! Entry is free, just come along and enjoy the music with them and their musical director, Tom Newall.
Refreshments will be served. Please show your appreciation with a donation to St Mary's to support the vestry and spire repairs.

A quiet, reflective break in a busy week, gathering informally in the side chapel in church. You can be sure of a friendly welcome if you care to join us and a warming cup of coffee or tea afterwards.
If it's really cold weather, we retire to winter quarters in someone's house! Contact [email protected] to find out where we meet this week.

... are three oboists, who meet regularly to rehearse in Stoke on Trent. Charmian Baskeyfield, Rachel Durber and Elizabeth Cuttell play oboe and cor anglais.
Hear them at St Mary's on on 3rd August at 3pm. Entrance is free, refreshments will be served. Please show your appreciation with a retiring donation to help fund the ongoing repairs to the wall, the vestry and the spire.

Our good friend Archie Halward, accompanied by mum Esther on piano, returns to St Mary's in ever better voice with his choice of songs to while away a summer Sunday afternoon. Refreshments will be served. Archie and Esther are generously performing in aid of funds for St Mary's Church.

All Saints joins with St Mary's Astbury and St John's Smallwood for a Thanksgiving for our animal companions and their place in our lives. We gather at Somerford Chapel, set in the heart of the fields and woods of rural Cheshire. We hope for a lovely day to enjoy a late summer Sunday afternoon outdoors. If it should look like bad weather, please check St Mary's Astbury Facebook page for alternative arrangements. The link can be found at the bottom of the menu to the left of this page, just click 'f' or visit https://www.facebook.com/StMarysAstbury

DON'T FORGET TO BRING A CHAIR AND DRINKS FOR BOTH HUMANS AND ANIMALS!

CALLING ALL LITTLE PEOPLE ........bring your carers for some Wednesday fun!
A safe environment for little ones to play and learn to socialise, a chance for parents and care-givers to relax with coffee and cake. If you have moved to Congleton or have started a family recently, you will be especially welcome. Come and find out what goes on and find new friends.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret we have to increase the entry charge to cover the costs of keeping Toddler Group running. We hope you will understand and support the group going forward. THANK YOU

Every week during term-time, a service for the children of Astbury school. Parents and carers are welcome to attend. For summer the service will be held once a month in church. All other weeks, it will be in school. Contact us for more details.

1st and 3rd Sundays of the month are Holy Communion from the Book of Common Prayer.
If there is a 5th Sunday of the month, it is likely to be Morning Prayer.

Songs of praise, prayer, an interesting reflection on a reading from the Bible, all led by members of St Mary's ministry team.
And then chance to catch-up with friends over coffee, tea and biscuits. And sometimes there may be CAKE!

The 1st and third Sundays of each month is a quiet, contemplative service of Compline to close the day.

2nd and 4th Sundays of the month are Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer.
If there is a 5th Sunday of the month, it is likely to be Morning Prayer.

A new time to share Communion at St Mary's. This is a Common Worship Service and welcomes everyone.

Chief barista, Bob serves coffee and biscuits after the service for a social catch-up with friends.

On the second and fourth Sundays, there is a service of sung Evensong with the robed choir and using the Book of Common Prayer.

Worshipping together at St Mary's. Some Sundays the service will welcome families for baptism.
Refreshments are served after the service.

An informal and interactive service as we share bread and wine together.
Whoever you are, where ever you are from - it's for you. Come and be welcomed and enjoy chief barista, Bob's coffee and biscuits after the service.