St Mary’s & St Luke’s News and Information for 20 September 2020 Trinity 15
Worship for this Sunday and the coming week
In Church
This Sunday 20/09
9:30am Holy Communion at St Mary’s (booking Required)
Wednesday
10:30am Holy Communion at St Mary’s
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
9:30am Morning Prayer
Private Prayer at St Mary’s
Tuesday: 10am-12noon
Thursday: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Next Sunday 27/09
9:30am Holy Communion at St Mary’s (booking Required)
Online
This Sunday & next Sunday
11am Streamed Worship
(stream begins at 10:50am)
After Church Refreshments on Zoom
Join us on Zoom for after service chat and mayhem! For extra security there is a Waiting Room in place, please use a name we will recognise and wait to be let in.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/75021313429
Meeting ID: 750 2131 3429
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St Luke’s Update
We have begun the task of reopening St Luke’s Church for the first time since March, which is definitely great news!
The Risk Assessment has been carried out and work has begun to make the building Covid-19 Secure.
We expect to hold our first service there on Sunday 4 October at 9am.
If all goes well, we will then offer it for hire from Monday 12 October.
Many thanks to those who helped do the cleaning preparation earlier this week.
Updates will be posted on our website here.
Message to members the Ladies Afternoon Group
It is with regret that owing to the Covid 19 situation we have had to cancel our Autumn Programme. We have contacted our speakers who have told us that they will be happy to join us at a later, safer date.
God bless you all. Audrey and Marian.
New Rural Dean of Nantwich
We have a new Rural Dean following the move of Helen Chantry to Southwell & Nottingham Diocese in June. The Revd Alison Fulford who is currently vicar of Wrenbury, Baddiley & Burleydam, and has just been appointed the new vicar elect of Audlem, Wybunbury and Doddington, has accepted the Bishop’s invitation to be the Rural Dean of Nantwich. We wish her well.
Chester Diocesan Events for Adults
Did you know that Chester Diocese runs a fantastic programme of events online each month which you can access for free?
Click the image to find out more.
Special Events this Autumn
Things may be different this Autumn, but we have some exciting things to celebrate within God’s Love!
October:
3 October: Rev Paul is being Priested at Chester Cathedral!! The original date for this was 20 June but was postponed due to Covid-19. It will be very different with only 30 people in total being able to be in the Cathedral! On Sunday 4 October Paul will celebrate his first communion at St Mary’s at 10:40am. Due to restrictions, it will be mostly his family and friends who will attend and we’ll Live Stream the service so we can all join in. More details to follow.
Harvest Sunday 10 October: this has moved a week due to Paul’s Priesting and it will very different this year, As we won’t all be able to meet in church we will be having a virtual Harvest Celebration! The 10:40am service at St Mary’s will be available to book to attend and it will be live-streamed so we can all join in! We will be encouraging people to make a financial, rather than a food donation (as we can’t redistribute them this year), to the charities we usually support as we give thanks to God for his goodness to us each and every day and even in the midst of a global pandemic – click on the links to go to their donations pages:
Nantwich Food Bank
Crewe Food Bank
St Luke’s Hospice
Cheshire Agricultural Chaplaincy – no online giving but there’s an address to send a cheque to
Christain Aid
November:
We will wait and see if the guidance changes, but it’s looking unlikely that we will be able to hold our Annual Commemoration Service which is normally on the 1st Sunday of November. If we can’t we will do something online.
We also await guidance on celebrating Remembrance Sunday (08/11). We will have a service in church, but it will be limited numbers and we will live-stream it. We will also officially open the new work around the War Memorial on that day. We have a shortfall of a couple of thousand pounds on this project, if you can help to cut this please click here or speak to Revd Mike, it would be good to get it in balance before the opening.
News from St Paul’s Pantry Food Bank
August: 151 people were fed providing 1,359 meals. Donations of food received in was 2,336.59 kgs.
If you are able to donate, we are totally out of long-life cakes, sweet treats, sugar, toothpaste, shower gels and shampoo and low on tinned potatoes, custard, and crisps. We are open Mon- Fri 10-2.30. for you to drop of donations at our rear gates.
We have had some repairs done on our biggest leak and are waiting for a downpour to see if the problem has been fixed. Thank you to those who have donated towards this.
On a personal note I will be leaving St Paul’s at the end of this month and Alexia Stockton will be taking over most of my work. Thank you for your support over the years and particularly during this unprecedented time in the world’s history.
Take care
Cheryl
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The latest Information on the Reopening of our Churches and Church Hall
An Update for St Mary’s, St Luke’s & The Church Hall
- Public Worship has resumed at St Mary’s at 9:30am (prebooking only). Due to the very limited space we have available you need to book in advance – click here to see details of how to book along with other important information
- Face Masks are mandatory in Church for all services and the Church Hall excluding those with a valid exemption or who are taking part in or are leading the service (as long as physical distancing can be observed)
- Private Prayer in Church: St Mary’s offers times in the week for Private Prayer, these change each week please see below for this week’s times/dates.
- Funerals are permissible in church and we will conduct them at St Mary’s on request. Funerals in church buildings are severely restricted at the moment. As per government regulations immediate family only are allowedand no hymns may be sung. Please discuss options with a Funeral Director to see what’s best for your family and loved one. We continue to conduct funerals at the Graveside and the Crematorium. Please see the CofE guidance on funerals for more information.
- Weddings are permissible in church. They are limited to 30 people in total (including the minister) and hymn singing or an organist is not permitted at the moment. Please see the CofE guidance on weddings for more information. To find out more information on booking a wedding at St Mary’s please click here.
- Baptisms are permissible providing appropriate steps are taken to minimise risk and are limited to 30 people including the minister. We will not be taking any new bookings at the moment until we have rescheduled those that were cancelled. It will be 2021 before we take new bookings. Please see the CofE guidance on baptisms for more information.
- The Church Hall is Covid-19 Secure – you can read our Covid-19 Secure Policy and Interim Booking Procedures here . The new ‘Rule of 6’ doesn’t apply to the hall as it’s a Covid Secure Venue, but all groups who use it should adhere to their own guidance to keep it’s members safe
- St Luke’s, worship and lettings: We have completed a risk assessment and have begun to implement the findings to make the church Covid-19 Secure. We plan to have an act of worship there on Sunday 4 October and offer the church for limited booking from Monday 5 October. More details will be posted during the coming week – Click here to viewthe page.
- As changes to the guidance happen we will update this information accordingly – you can see the full guidance on all of the above at: https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches
From:
The Government re Church Halls – multi-purpose community facilities
Funerals
Funerals this past week
None
Funerals still to take place
None
Please keep their families in your prayers.
Giving to our church Online or by Phone Banking
It’s simpler than you may think
Online One off giving
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Giving via your bank
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Account Name: St Mary’s Wistaston PCC
Sort Code: 08 92 99
Account No: 65067004
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Easyfundraising
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