St Mary’s & St Luke’s News & Church at Home Resources for 25 October 2020 – Bible Sunday
To simplify things we have merged News and Info & Church at Home into one post
This post now has News, Information & Church at Home Resources
Worship for this Sunday and the coming week
In Church
This Sunday 25/10
Bible Sunday
9am Holy Communion at St Luke’s (Booking Required)
10:40am Morning Prayer at St Mary’s (Booking Required)12 noon Annual Parochial Church Meeting at St Mary’s and on Zoom (Booking required – see below for details)
No Morning Prayer this week
Wednesday
10am Holy Communion at St Mary’s
Next Sunday 01/11 – All Saints Day
9am Morning Prayer at St Luke’s (Booking Required)
10:40am Holy Communion at St Mary’s (Booking Required)6pm Commemoration ServiceOnline onlysee below for more information
Online
Every Sunday
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship
from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Next Sunday 01/11
6pm Commemoration ServiceOnline onlysee below for more information
Click for Church at Home Resources for All Ages
This Sunday is Bible Sunday – see below for details
You can read the Bible for free online at:
Find out more about the Bible Society and discover some great resources here
Worship this week:
The Annual Commemoration Service will be held totally online for this year, please click on the image or here for further details.
Rev Paul’s Poppy Run
As the traffic through our buildings is vastly reduced this year, and our remembrance services can only be attended by a few people, it was decided that one of the clergy team should give the Poppy Run a go. I won! I will be joining a virtual community of fellow runners across the UK and completing my own run. I’m going to run 11k around our parish as close to the boundary as is safely possible. By taking part in this challenge I’ll be raising funds to support the Royal British Legion. Many thanks, Rev Paul.
To sponsor Paul please visit here: http://bit.ly/poppyrun
Chris and Mike Horne have been busy making jams, pickles etc
Sue Squirrell writes: This time of year, Chris and Mike would normally be selling them in the Church Hall. As we can’t do this at the moment, we thought we would advertise what is available and if you could let Chris or me know if you want an order, we will do our best to get this to you.
Hyacinths are also on the list, but please note, not available until w/c 14th December.
Thanks to Chris and Mike for making these available and also thanks to everyone who has placed their order so far.
All proceeds towards Church funds. Thank you.
To order call Chris Horne, mobile: 07756 575835 or Sue Squirrell, mobile: 07817 746288, e-mail: sue.squirrell@thedrey.co.uk
Click here to see what’s available and call Chris or Sue to order
Special Events this Autumn
Things may be different this Autumn, but we have some exciting things to celebrate within God’s Love!
November:
Our Annual Commemoration Service will be held as an online only service this year and will take place on Sunday 1 November at 6pm.
Remembrance Sunday (08/11). We will have an act of worship in both churches for Remembrance Sunday, 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.
Funerals
Funerals this past week:
None
Funerals still to take place
None
Please keep their families in your prayers.
Church at Home 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, and not so 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. Click Here to go to the Faith at Home website.
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
Giving to our church Online or by Phone Banking
It’s simpler than you may think
Online One off giving
Giving via your bank
Easyfundraising
Giving Leaflet with further information on giving at St Luke’s & St Mary’s
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 here.
Giving Leaflet with further information on giving at St Luke’s & St Mary’s
Click on the image to view/download the leaflet.
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