Welcome to
St Luke's



Living God's love

We are a contemporary, caring, diverse and Christ centred church, drawn together by our desire to know and follow Jesus. We seek to provide a safe place where all people can find faith, friendship, support and direction, and where we can be inspired to be a blessing in our families, neighbourhoods and networks.

Services

Join us on Sunday at 10am

WHAT TO EXPECT



Listen to sermon recordings

ONLINE WORSHIP



Find out about baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals

LIFE EVENTS

What’s on

Take a look at the calendar, social media posts, and church news for everything that’s going on.

CALENDAR

View times and dates of services and events.

FACEBOOK

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INSTAGRAM

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Hedge End’s Got Talent



We are really excited to announce we will be running a Hedge End’s Got Talent event
in partnership with Wildern and Deer Park secondary schools!

Hedge End’s Got Talent will take place at
St Luke’s Church, Hedge End,
on Friday 21st March from 7pm
and will have a first prize of £200.

We’re looking for a range of acts including musicians, poets, dancers and more!

To apply, please read all the instructions below and send an application form and video of your act (maximum of 4 minutes) to hegt@stlukeshedgeend.co.uk by Sunday 23rd February. The competition is open to all students at Wildern and Deer Park schools. Due to space confinements, we can only accept dance groups with a maximum of 3-4 people in.

Application Instructions

APPLICATION FORM

Please complete the form (link above) and send it to us with a video of your act
to hegt@stlukeshedgeend.co.uk by Sunday 23rd February

In your video please say your name and school
so we can link it to your application form if they get separated

Videos should be a maximum of 4 minutes long (shorter is fine!)

If your video is too large to send over email, please use WeTransfer

On WeTransfer’s website, upload your video on the left,
and send it across to hegt@stlukeshedgeend.co.uk –
in the title space please put ‘HEGT application’ and your act name!



Any video you send us will be deleted after the event. You can read our Data Privacy Notice for how we handle your data at the link below. Please also make sure you copy in a parent or guardian to your email application. Unfortunately, we’re unable to accept any application where a parent or guardian hasn’t been copied in. Please make it clear if your application is sent to us by your parent or guardian!

Please note that if we have lots of applicants we may have to shortlist. We will be back in touch with you the week of the 24th February about your application whatever the outcome.

We’re really looking forward to receiving your application and the Hedge End’s Got Talent event! Tickets to attend the event will be available to reserve in a few weeks’ time, so please keep an eye on our social media! If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hegt@stlukeshedgeend.co.uk

DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

Church News



Christmas at St Luke’s

We had a fantastic time celebrating Christmas at St Luke’s! Advent kicked off with a brilliant Nativity service jointly led by our Children’s Church and Junction 7 (our youth group). All the children and young people did a great job and it was a super fun way to reflect on what each person in the Nativity brought to God, and what gifts we might bring.

Other highlights of course included the Carol Service at Church and carols services at CrackleRock, Botley. The reflective service was a welcomed quieter space of refuges amongst the chaos and busyness of Christmas.

We love having fun at Christmas and so at our Christmas Eve All Age Service we were thinking about God’s mission and how we’re invited into this. Our Vicar, Ben, took part in a mission of his own during the service trying to get to church and rode in on a tandem just in time to preach! At St Luke’s we like to pin our Christmas Day service onto something significant that happened during the year. Our theme for 2024 was the Olympics and so we had some special St Luke’s Olympics challenges alongside our worship.

A huge thank you goes out to all those involved in making these services happen, and to all who came to celebrate Christmas with us!

You can also listen back to some of the Bible readings and sermons through the link below.

LISTEN AGAIN




30th Anniversary!

St Luke’s recently celebrated its 30th Anniversary. A booklet was compiled of the hoistory and memories of the church since it was first formed. Please click the link below to access the booklet.

30th Anniversary Booklet



To mark the occasion, we had an amazing time celebrating our church building turning 30 on the 13th October! It was a great weekend filled with reminiscing on the history of the church, returning faces, a wonderful service with the Bishop on Sunday, and hopes for the next 30 years. Thank you to everyone who was involved in organising the events over the weekend and to all those who came and partied with us!

Projects & Partnerships

ECO CHURCH

Stewarding God’s creation

FAIRTRADE

Promoting ethical trading

HEDGE END FOOD CENTRE

Local food donations

CHRISTIAN AID

Fighting global poverty 

OPERATION NOAH

National climate action

SAFE FAMILIES

Supporting local children

The Team

Please find the members of St Luke’s team below.
If you need to get in touch with the team, please use the contact form.

CONTACT FORM

Ben Jones

Vicar

Clive Beard

Curate

Rosie Adams

Churchwarden
Pastoral Care Team

Martin Phillips

Licensed Lay Minister Ministry Leadership Team
Mission & Outreach
Finance

Jeanette Harrison

Parish Administrator

Maddie Thorp

Youth Ministry Coordinator

Janet Compton

Safeguarding Officer Eco Church

Sue Phillips

Pastoral Care TeamChildren & Youth

Brenda Whitby

Assistant Churchwarden

Jon Diaper

Assistant Churchwarden

Sonya McCall

Assistant Churchwarden

David Tyser

Assistant Churchwarden

Sam Mathew

Health and Safety Officer

David Cuthbert

Deanery Synod

Mandy Dean

Deanery Synod
Socials

Gary Holcombe

Deanery Synod

Alastair Dobson

Buildings

Emma Blamey

Children & Youth
Eco Church

Socials

Rose Spink

Children & Youth

Anne Duffin

PCC

Nibu Thomas

PCC

Jacob Blamey

Senior Leadership Team
Communications & Publicity
Eco Church

Contact us

Want to get in touch? We would be happy to hear from you.

Please submit an enquiry using the form below or phone us on: 01489 781448

About us

We are a contemporary, caring, diverse and Christ centred church, drawn together by our desire to know and follow Jesus. We seek to provide a safe place where all people can find faith, friendship, support and direction, and where we can be inspired to be a blessing in our families, neighbourhoods and networks.

We believe the role of a church is threefold: to worship God, to build community and to equip people to live Kingdom lives which point others towards God. In shorthand, we might describe this as ‘up, in and out’.

Firstly, we are built to worship God. In the words of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, our ‘chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever’. (Up) At St. Luke’s, we enjoy worshipping God! Our services are fun, engaging and relevant. Our musical style is predominantly contemporary, with band-led worship, and our preaching style is informal, seeking to explore what the bible says and to interpret and apply it within our 21st century context.

Secondly, we are built to live in community. As 1 Corinthians 12 puts it, we are one body with many parts, and it’s only as we engage with, value and nurture one another that we can truly achieve our potential. (In) We have a variety of small groups, services and events which seek to build our community. Our home, youth and children’s groups aim to deepen discipleship in a safe environment, and our social groups (walking, table-tennis, dancing, book group etc) enable us to get to know one another, encourage one another and have fun with one another whilst doing things we love.

Thirdly, we are called to be those who follow Jesus, seeking to live as he lived: serving the needy, including the outsider, standing up to oppression, speaking out against injustice, loving our neighbour and, by words and action, pointing people towards God. (Out) At St. Luke’s, we believe that we are just as much ‘church’ when we are dispersed as when we are gathered. We seek to encourage all our members to live lives which bless others and point to God. We also run outward-looking events, such as our youth café, coffee drop-in and toddler group, and are involved with other charities and organisations, such as foodbank, Eco Church, Fledge, Simon Says and Christian Aid.

Our Values

Following in Jesus’ footsteps, we value:
Welcome
God is love. We celebrate and welcome every person.
Challenge
We are called to holiness and discipleship in the power of God’s Spirit.
Good News
We seek to live this out: having fun together, serving our community and loving our world.

OUR LOCATION

St Luke’s church is located in Hedge End, Hampshire. Use the link below to find us on a map.

MORE ABOUT OUR LOCATION

OUR CHURCH BUILDING

St Luke’s is a beautiful, modern church situated in Grange Park, in the Parish of Hedge End, in the Deanery of Eastleigh, in the Winchester Diocese, UK.

MORE ABOUT OUR CHURCH BUILDING

Venue hire

St Luke’s has several newly renovated rooms for hire in addition to the worship area. The rooms are modern and versatile: ideal spaces for weekly or monthly meetings and functions. 

FIND OUT MORE

Support us

Give an online donation to the church

GIVING

Volunteer your time and skills

VOLUNTEERING

Safeguarding

St Luke’s is committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone in our church community.

CHURCH

Janet Compton is St Luke’s designated Safeguarding Officer. If you have a concern, contact her by email safeguarding@stlukeshedgeend.co.uk, by phone on 07954 553370, or use the website contact form and choose “safeguarding” as the subject matter. 

Contact Form


Read our church policy statement below.

Safeguarding Policy Statement

DIOCESE

Winchester Diocese has a dedicated safeguarding section on their website which can be accessed using the link below. You can contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Manager by phone on 01962 737317 or email safeguarding@winchester.anglican.org

Winchester Diocese Safeguarding Website

Data Privacy

St Luke’s complies with GDPR data privacy obligations.

If you wish to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer, please scroll up and use the website contact form and choose “Data Protection” as the subject matter. Otherwise, for more information, please view our data privacy notice below.

St Luke’s Data Privacy Notice