St Mary’s & St Luke’s News & Church at Home Resources for 10 January 2021 – The Baptism of Christ
Lockdown Update
To keep us all safe, our church buildings will be closed for Public Worship for the time being
Worship & Prayer for this Sunday and the coming week
Online
Sunday 10 January 2021 – The Baptism of Christ
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Morning Prayer – Mon, Tues, Wed & Thursday
Online only on Zoom – bit.ly/930mp
Next Sunday 17 January 2021 – Epiphany 2
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Click below to view our channels
Together at Home Family Resources Sheet for this week. There are other online resources below.
Watch again Online
If you missed any of our Christmas Services, or would like to watch them again, then you can on our YouTube Channel by clicking here.
Arthur Siddons
It is with sadness that I inform you of the death of Authur Siddons who passed away on Christmas Eve. Arthur has been a long-standing member of St Mary’s congregation and, up until a couple of years ago, did many jobs around the churchyard, often unnoticed, and he never looked for, or wanted, recognition for it. In fact quite the opposite. Please remember his brother Albert in your prayers. May Arthur Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory. Amen.
Funerals
Funerals this past week:
Angela Twiss
Phoebe Ashbrook
In the coming weeks
Winifred May Bennion
Joanne Keay
Authur Siddons
Please keep their families in your prayers.
From the Church of England – a downloadable personal resource for you or someone you know who needs it
DailyHope, a free national telephone line, offers music, prayers and reflections as well as full worship services from the Church of England at the end of the phone.
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.
Church at Home Resources for all ages
We are holding a Zoom Christingle Service on Sunday 24 January at 4pm for our Junior Church Families. Please save the date and Mike will send out more details by email.
Junior Church Resources
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.
Did you know that you can print this Newsletter?
If you would like to print this Newsletter for yourself or perhaps someone who can’t access the internet then you can! To do this simply click the green Print & PDF button at the top right of every post and follow the instructions. Don’t forget if you are sharing paper with someone do it safely and hygienically.