A Message from our Vicar

Hello from Harvie;

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our Parish Website, as you look through it I hope you will come to love St. Luke’s as much as I have in a very short time. The site gives a good background to the work we are engaged in here at St. Luke’s as well as further afield.

We at St. Luke’s warmly invite you not just to visit our website but to visit our church and see how we are worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ.

In this world of constant change it is good to know that God remains faithful and true. He has called us all into a relationship with Himself through Jesus and I would encourage any and everyone to begin to ask the question "Who is Jesus?" for themselves. I firmly believe that the task of the church and church people is not to be the silent minority but a majority who help others to explore the deep things of life.

We cannot do religion for you but we can help with where to find answers to questions you may have, so why not give Jesus a chance and read His story for yourself.

Begin in a Gospel; Matthew, Mark, Luke or John as they tell again of Jesus’ walk on earth and then look at the bigger picture as shown in the Old Testament.

Please enjoy your time at our website and be assured of a warm welcome if you come and visit this part of God's kingdom.

Every blessing

Harvie Nicol (Vicar)

Formby is a coastal town in the North West of England, located some 10 miles, 16 km, from the City of Liverpool. It has a population of about 25,000 people and three Anglican churches one of which is St. Luke's. St. Luke's church dates back to 1855 but the site is much older. A previous building was demolished in a storm, and some graves in the churchyard date back to the seventeenth century.

St. Luke's church is located on the westerly edge of the town, in a belt of pinewoods that separate us from the sand dunes, beach and Irish Sea. We offer a warm invitation to visitors and newcomers to the area to join us in worship, or just to come and look around our historic place of worship and its grounds.

St. Luke's is an evangelical church. We expect teaching and preaching to be Biblically based and provide our members with opportunities for study through groups. Prayer is important to us.

To discover more about us, please look through our web site. You will find details of work with the church in Africa and our link to St. Mark's, Shyira, Rwanda, of our ecological work, service times, and much more. If you have any comments we would like to hear from you.