St Mary’s & St Luke’s News & Church at Home Resources for 21 February 2021 – Lent 1
During Lockdown
To keep us all safe, our church buildings are closed for Public Worship for the time being
Worship & Prayer for this Sunday and the coming week
This Sunday our guest preacher is Andy Banks, of Scripture Union New Zealand, who will be joining us live online from Auckland, New Zealand. They are 13 hours ahead of us so it will be a late-night for him!
Andy writes, “My passion is encouraging a ‘faith lived out’”.
Andy last joined us in July 2020 and it will be great to hear from him again.
Online
21 February Lent 1
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
NEW: dial into the Sunday Morning Service
Just before 10:40am call: 0203 051 2874
Meeting ID: 838 7878 9259
Participant ID: #
Passcode: 567119
Morning Prayer – Mon, Tues, Wed & Thursday
Online only on Zoom – bit.ly/930mp
NEW: dial into Morning Prayer
Tel: 0203 051 2874
Meeting ID: 850 2058 1307
Participant ID (if asked): #
Passcode: 914961
Next Sunday 28 February Lent 2
10:40 am Live Streamed Worship from St Mary’s
(stream begins at 10:30am)
Click below to view our channels
Junior Church
Together at Home Family Resources Sheet for this week. Plus, there is more info below – click here.
It in envisaged that our church buildings will remain closed during February. However, we will continue to monitor the situation using Cheshire East Public Health data, and we will open up once the local Covid-19 data suggests it’s safe to do so. Revd Mike & the Wardens.
We have resources for all ages for ages including a Lent Zoom (video & phone) get together please click here for more info on all the resources.
World Day of Prayer Friday 5th March 2021
‘BUILD on a STRONG FOUNDATION’
This year’s World Day of prayer service has been prepared by the women of Vanuatu. We are not having a Church service on 5th March due to the current pandemic.
Please go to this website for more details and resources you can use at home: https://www.wwdp.org
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The February/March magazine is available to view online and download and print.
There are many interesting articles in it including an article from Frank Morton (Tower Captain) on the centenary of the heaviest bells in the tower.
We love to have your articles! You can submit an article through the Magazine Menu button above selecting Submit an Item or email: magazine@stmaryswistaston.blog
Also, the February Chester Diocesan News is available on the Diocesan Website: click here to view/download.
From St Paul’s Pantry (Crewe Foodbank)
We have been so grateful for people’s generosity over recent months and we really appreciate all the food donations we have received, particularly leading up to Christmas.
Unfortunately, we have started to run short of certain items:-
UHT milk, Tinned potatoes, Tinned fruit, Tinned vegetables, Pot noodles/ instant noodles, Instant pasta and sauce, Tinned sandwich meat, Jam, Rice
Donations of any of the things listed above would be really helpful, and can be dropped off at our back gate in St Paul’s Street anytime between 9.30 and 3.30 Monday to Friday. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Best Wishes,
John Rivers
Communications & E-Commerce Co-ordinator
St. Paul’s Centre, Hightown, Crewe. CW1 3BY Tel: 01270 586186
Funerals
Funerals this past week:
None
In the coming weeks
James Hardie
Reina Hughes
Roger Woodward
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
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Daily Hope, 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
There are resources for Lent for all the family on our Lent Resources Page: Click here.
Junior Church Resources
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
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
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
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