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Church at Home Resources for Sunday 27 September 2020 – Trinity 16

Worship for this Sunday and the coming week

In Church

This Sunday 27/09
9:30am Holy Communion at St Mary’s (booking Required)
Wednesday
10am 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 04/10
9am Holy Communion at St Luke’s (booking required)
10:40am Rev Paul’s First Celebration of Holy Communion at St Mary’s (Booking Required – very limited space due to Paul’s family and friends)

Online

This Sunday 27/09
11 am
(stream begins at 10:50am)

Next Sunday 04/10
10.40 am Streamed Worship
(stream begins at 10:30am)







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




A Selection of Resources for all ages

Junior Church Resources


As we can’t meet together for Junior Church, each week we will publish something on here for our young people to do at home. 

We hope you find these resources useful.

  • You can click here, or the image above, to access the resource from St Mary’s
  • Also, each week The Ollertons have produced some great resources over the past few months
  • The Church of England’s ‘Faith at Home’ website has resources for young and old
  • The Bible Society’s Book Club is an amazing resource for older youth and their parents – it’s well worth a book to discover more about the Bible

A bitesize Bible experience from the Ollerton Family

Through 15 minute sessions explore famous characters and events that form The Greatest Story Ever and discover how we can be part of it today. Simple to run. Fun. Free. No prior knowledge required. This family devotional course mixes online content (videos, readings, discussion) and printed cards to form a colourful learning experience in your own home.
https://thegreateststoryever.orghttps://youtu.be/MO-LGA6pz1Y

Faith at Home from the Church of England

This is a great resource for families to keep their children’s faith alive at this time. 
Faith at Home is a national campaign that builds on the work of Growing Faith and Everyday Faith to support the faith development and pastoral care of children and young people.

https://youtu.be/8XbRgVacVQA

The Bible Society

Bible Book Club

This is a fantastic free resource which we’ve used for some of the Midweek Get Togethers and is great for personal use to discover more about the books of the bible. Please take a look at the video and click here to find out more.

https://youtu.be/xZcnk-65JzI

A Pandemic Prayer for Back to School
by Jayne Manfredi

Shepherd God, look after our lambs
as they leave the fold to return to school. 

Lead them safely through corridors and classrooms
that may be familiar but have been changed forever. 

Help them to remember strange new rules
and unfamiliar ways of doing things.

Guide them as they navigate friendships
that might feel awkward due to long absence and lack of contact. 

Even though they walk without us through the darkest of times
let them feel no fear, for you God are with them and you shall comfort them. 

Prepare classrooms for them filled with patience and joy,
playgrounds anointed with good humour, and lunch tables overflowing with grace. 

Teach them to be teachable by giving them grateful hearts,
ears that listen well and lips that ask smart questions. 

Let mercy and goodness follow them in all their adventures
and bring them home safely to us at the end of the day. 

Amen. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with all the pupils and staff of all schools and places of education who started back this month. Difficult times for all and we pray that it may be a positive experience for all concerned.

Jayne Manfredi recently posted this poem on Twitter which captures the return beautifully. Used with permission.

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Reopening Our Churches

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.

Updates will be posted on our website here.






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 2:30pm at Chester Cathedral!! The original date for this was 20 June but was postponed due to Covid-19. It will be very different with a very limited amount of people 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. You can watch live on YouTube here: bit.ly/paulsordination

11 October Harvest Sunday: 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 9am at St Luke’s and 10:40am service at St Mary’s will be available to book from the Monday beforehand and St Mary’s will be live-streamed so we can all join in!
We would encourage people to give food donations via supermarkets and other collection points (as we can’t redistribute them this year), or make a financial 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. 

Giving to our church Online or by Phone Banking

It’s simpler than you may think

Online One off giving

You can give via our very simple online giving partnership with Give a Little and Sum Up. Simply click the button below. Sum Up take a small transaction fee from what you give.


click here to give online

Giving via your bank

You can give via your bank via online banking or telephone banking. If you do it this way we receive 100% of the money you give, there is no transaction fee. Here are the details you need to make a payment directly into the church bank account. For phone banking you may need to take a look at a statement from your bank and it normally has the details of how to do this on the back. You can give once or set up a monthly payment. Please remember to never give passwords over the phone and only call the official number on your statement.

Account Name: St Mary’s Wistaston PCC
Sort Code: 08 92 99
Account No: 65067004
Ref: << your initial & surname>>

Easyfundraising

A very simple way to give, if you shop online or do click and collect, is through Easyfundraising – it doesn’t cost you a penny as by using Easyfundraising a percentage of what you but gets given to the church.
In total we’ve raised over £1600 through Easyfundraising. For more information on this please click the button below.


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