Priest in Charge: The Rev Peter Boxill
Tel: (246) 433-2143 (h) 429-0371 (o) 433-6144 (church)
Times of Services
Sunday
9.15 am Family Worship & Eucharist (1st Sunday)
7.00 am Said Eucharist & Sermon (3rd Sunday)
9.15 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon (2nd & 4th Sunday)
9.15 am Choral Matins, Mass nd Sermon (5th Sunday)
Activities/Meetings:
Sundays
9.00 am: Sunday School (Children 5 yrs. & over)
4.00 pm: Church Army
Men’s Meeting - 3rd Sundays after 7:00 a.m. Mass
Wednesdays
10.00 am Prayer & Bible Study
7.30 pm Men's Fellowship and Woman's Auxiliary
(3rd Wednesdays)
Thursdays
7.30 pm Bible Study
1st Saturday
4.00 pm Mothers' Union - 1st Saturdays
Brief History & Its Physical Structure
The Anglican Church of St. Jude, once referred to as a chapel of ease, was consecrated for worship on February 2nd, 1836 by then Bishop William Hart Coleridge and named after the disciple of Jesus, Jude or Judas the brother of James. Like many other churches built during Bishop Coleridge’s Episcopate, St. Jude’s was born out of a desire to see more places of worship established in remote areas with fairly dense populations. It is nestled in the small rural district of St. Jude's Village in the parish of St. George and built on lands donated by the Hon. J. H. Nurse of Ashbury plantation and the Hon. J. H. Holder.
St. Jude’s Church was constructed with certain features of Roman Gothic Architecture for which it is admired by many. It is particularly known for the beauty of:
1) its cruciform shape, with the two wings of the church forming the horizontal beam of the cross and the aisle from east to west being the vertical beam, and
2) its walk-way, lined on both sides with white stone columns, that leads to and from the southern door.
Within its interior, St. Jude’s has the distinct feature of having two wooden tablets affixed on either side of the west door – on one is inscribed the Ten Commandments, and on the other the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord's Prayer are inscribed. In recent times, the church has installed three modern (or contemporary) stained glass windows within the eastern wall of the church which are interpretive of the Transfiguration or the Calvary scene.
Brief Profile of the Church at Present
For the 170 years of existence, St. Jude’s has been nurtured by several priests since the Rev. Francis Ashley, the first incumbent, was appointed in 1836. Over the last eight years, the church has been shepherded under the incumbency of the Rev’d Michael Maxwell (1998) who can easily be described as an evangelical, Anglican minister. He has inspired new life, and continues to do so, through the equipping of the saints for the work and type of mission and ministry applicable for this new millennium and era of the Church. Rev’d Maxwell has introduced a number of innovative ways in which the church can share in fellowship as a community of believers, and engage in alternative and expressive forms of worship (in addition to the Traditional Anglican worship from the Book of Common Prayer).
The church of St. Jude, under the parish system, has over the years continued to reach out to several neighbouring districts within its parochial boundary - districts such as Preogative, Greens, Todds, Ashbury, Redland, Newbury, Cottage, Fairview, Middleton, Superlative, Baird’s Village, Drax Hall and Harmony Cottage. Drawn from within these districts, and even beyond, the church has (as at the end of 2005) a roll of just over 500 hundred registered members, of which 360 are communicants; and the average attendance for Sunday worship is around 190 persons.
As with other Anglican Churches, St. Jude’s is governed by a Parochial Church Council chaired by the priest. It also consists of a number of lay ministries who play an active role with our worship services such as the servers’ and ushers’ guild, the church choir (and other worship leaders), the Eucharistic and Chalice assistants, the lectors’ guild, and the ushers’ guild. In addition to these, there are a number of the traditional church organizations functioning within the life and ministry of church such as the Sunday School, the Mothers’ Union, the Woman’s Auxiliary, the Men’s Association, the Church Army, and the Prayer & Bible Study Groups. The Church does not, however, have an established Youth Group, but has a Youth Commission consisting of young adults who organise programmes and activities –
such as retreats, hikes, discussion forums, and vacation camps - for the development and involvement of our young people within the life of the Church.
Former Priests
Date |
Priest |
Date |
Priest |
1836-1838 1838-1840 1840-1852 1855-1868 1868-1875 1875-1876 1876-1877 1877-1880 1880-1883 1883-1905 1905-1906 1906-1919 1919-1922 1922-1924 1924-1926 1926-1927 1927-1928 1928-1942 1942-1944 |
Francis Ashley E.D. Lovell Charles Carter Joseph Piggott J.J.H. Pitcher E.N. Branch N.H. Greenidge Walter Clarence Watson Henry Rawle Barnett Henry Willoughby Moore H.L. Lovell Frederick Francis C. Mallalieu W.C. Gregory James Vesey Roome Alleyne George Bradshaw Fred Hodgkins Francis George Hall Walter Eugene Blackett William Edward Hopkins |
1944-1946 1947 1947-1975 1975-1979 1980-1982 1982-1989 1989-1990 1990-1991 1992-1995 1996-1997 1997 1998-March 2008 Present
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T.J. Byron Alfred Theophilus Coldman DeCourcey Bindley Brathwaite Fritz Bazin Augustine
Joseph Austin DeLisle Carrington Noel Advil Burke William Beckles Theodore C.W. Worrell Trevor Seymour O'Neale Monrelle Theophilus Williams Michael B. St.J. Maxwell The Rev Peter Boxill |
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