St Mary’s & St Luke’s News & Church at Home Resources for 22 November 2020 – Christ the King
From 5 November both St Mary’s & St Luke’s, as per government restrictions, will be closed for Communal Worship until further notice – we will be open for individual prayer on a Tuesday 10am – 12noon and Thursday 1pm – 3pm
Worship & Prayer for this Sunday and the coming week
Online
Every Sunday
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship
from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Morning Prayer – Mon, Tues, Weds & Thursday
Online only on Zoom – bit.ly/930mp
Click below to view our channels
In Church
We are open for Individual Prayer on
Tuesday mornings 10am – 12 noon
& Thursday afternoons 1:30pm – 3:30pm
From 5 November we are closed for Communal Worship until further notice
Click for Church at Home Resources for All Ages
War Memorial Fundraiser
Many thanks to all those who attended on Zoom the Quiz and Interview night arranged by Simon Bartholomew in aid of the War Memorial Fund. We had two very interesting interviews, one was with Rev Paul’s brother, Rev Andrew, who is an Army Chaplain and the other was with our very own Rev Malcolm, both gave insights into having a Christian faith in the services. We also had a fantastic quiz with quizmaster Nigel Simms, well done to Helen Carter who won. I hear that an incredible £355 was raised through the evening! Thanks to all involved for a great night. You can give to the fund here.
An extra fundraiser for the War Memorial Fund, please see below to on how to join in the raffle for a Horne’s Jams & Pickle Hamper or a Christmas Card activity set. Click on the picture to see a bigger image.
Ladies First Mince Pie Evening
Ladies let’s forget this second lockdown for a short while and enjoy each other’s company by having our first festive mince pie/mulled wine…. together on Friday, 20th November at 7.00 pm on Zoom. If you are able to join Sue and I simply email Joy on chaplowjoy@gmail.com and she will send you the login details.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York has asked the church to Pray for our Nation through November. You can see more details and access resources on the Church of England website here and you can click here to access a PDF to print and use at home if you wish. Feel free to share this with friends and family as well.
Chris and Mike Horne have been busy making jams, pickles etc
Update on Produce Sales……..
We have had a fantastic response to the Produce made by Chris and Mike Horne.
So far, £388.50 has been raised towards church funds and the orders are still coming in! Thanks for your support.
Please Note, the hyacinths have now all sold. Those already ordered will be delivered as soon as possible after w/c 14th December.
Thanks again to Chris and Mike for providing the delicious goodies. You can still order jams, pickles etc and the list is available on the church website blog.
Sue
Chris Horne, mobile: 07756 575835
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
Christmas Toy Appeal & Food Bank Appeal
As you may be aware on the first Sunday of December we usually collect new toys for the Salvation Army Christmas Toy Appeal. However, this year due to Covid the Salvation Army can’t accept toys this year and are asking for a cash donation instead. Our friends at Wells Green Methodist Church have arranged an afternoon to help us support the Salvation Army and the local Food Banks (especially with Christmas Treats).
They will be open on Saturday 28 November, 2 pm – 4 pm for you to drop off Food Bank items and cash donations for the Salvation Army Toy Appeal.
Please support it if you can.
In the build up to Christmas, we’d like to invite you to brighten up both your community and the internet! Simply make a bright star and display it in a window in your home. In addition to this, why not post a photo of your star on social media with #GuidingStar @maryandluke . Let’s be lights in our community and perhaps the stars may remind us of the stars in our communities we are thankful for this year.
Advent & Christmas
The Church of England’s theme for this year is ‘Comfort and Joy’ and we hope that we will be able to share this through our services. Of course, we don’t know what will be allowed at this point, but we are planning for ‘in church’ and ‘online’ services during this period.
More details will be made available as we have them, but in the meantime, you can take a look at the resources on the Church of England website.
Funerals
Funerals this past week:
Rosemary Neish Challinor
Ron Stockton
Funerals still to take place
None
Please keep their families in your prayers.
Here’s our monthly Foodbank data for October that you may wish to share with your congregations:-
Donations of food received weighed 3,739kg and we were able to help 190 people during the month
If you are able to donate, we are currently short of long-life cakes/puddings, chocolate and sweets, sugar, custard, and crisps.
We are open Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 3.30pm for donations at our rear entrance.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Best Wishes, John Rivers
St. Paul’s Centre, Hightown, Crewe CW1 3BY Tel: 01270 586186 Email: pantry@stpaulscentre.org.uk
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/StPauls
Website http://stpaulscentre.org.uk/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stpaulscentre/
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.
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.
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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