Church at Home Resources for Sunday 11 October 2020 – Harvest Sunday
Worship for this Sunday and the coming week
In Church
This Sunday 11/10
Harvest Sunday (see below for details)
9am Holy Communion at St Luke’s (Booking Required)
10:40am All Age Worship at St Mary’s (Booking Required)
Wednesday
10am Holy Communion at St Mary’s
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
9:30am Morning Prayer
Next Sunday 18/10
St Luke’s Day
9am Holy Communion at St Luke’s (Booking Required)
10:40am All Age Worship at St Mary’s (Booking Required)
Online
This Sunday 11/10
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship for Harvest live from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Next Sunday 18/10
10.40 am Streamed Worship
(stream begins at 10:30am)
This Sunday 11 October
We celebrate Harvest!!!!!
Harvest Sunday 11 October: it will different this year!
As we won’t all be able to meet in church this year we will be having an ‘in church’ and an ‘online’ Harvest Celebration! We will celebrate Harvest at both churches, pre booking required, the 10:40am service at St Mary’s will be live-streamed so everyone can join in! Click here for details of how to book.
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
Join together on Zoom for a chat after the 10:40am service
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.
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.
Special Events this Autumn
Things may be different this Autumn, but we have some exciting things to celebrate within God’s Love!
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.
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.