St Mary’s & St Luke’s Services, Readings, News & Church at Home Resources for 07 March 2021 – Lent 3
During Lockdown
We ard looking to reopen both of our churches on 21 March – see below for details
The Weekly Sheet
is back!
In preparation for the reopening of our churches we are moving back to a Weekly Sheet as we had pre-pandemic. As before, it will contain service times, readings for the week & news & information.
It will be published weekly on here and, when we are back in church, it will be available in printed form.
We are keeping the Blog going for larger items that won’t easily fit on the Weekly Sheet and we will signpost to these from the printed sheet.
The links in blue should be active so if you are viewing it electronically you can click on them to go to find out more information. The links will also work it they are typed into a browser.
Below you can view, download or print and using the tools at the top you can change the way you view it, print and search the document.
Junior Church Together at Home Family Resources Sheet for this week is below
click here to go to it.
Reopening St Luke’s & St Mary’s in March
We are looking to reopen both St Luke’s and St Mary’s for worship from Sunday 21 March.
A booking system will still be in place for Sunday Worship for the time being. Please see the image or click here for details of how to book. Booking will open on Monday 8 March.
Face coverings and Social distancing will still be in place until the government say it’s safe not to.
Lent Group & Resources
https://youtu.be/UQNC3K_uVnE
Zoom Lent Group
Monday at 7:30pm: 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 March
Join Revd Mike on Zoom Monday evenings in March as we think about ‘God’s Story, Our Story‘
You can download the course here
Please click here to view more info on all the resources including resources for young people.
A message from our Branch Leader, Jenny
Hello everyone, we are still in lockdown but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and hopefully, we will be able to meet again soon at our branch meetings.
In some ways during the past year, we have been like our members who are in the Indoor Members Circle, thinking and praying for each other. Here is a brief history of that circle – it was started in 1921 by Mrs Edith Lucy Mosse for anyone who couldn’t take part in the activities of their branch, but who still supported the work of the Mothers’ Union. She was it’s first Central Correspondence.
In 1891 Edith married the Rev William Mosse, their first parish was in Redditch, Worcestershire. After two years they moved to The Lickey in Birmingham diocese, then in 1914 the family moved to Moseley where soon after she became seriously ill and more of an invalid. Further ill fortune followed when their daughter Mary died, aged 23 years old and Kathleen, another daughter became ill and her husband’s deteriorating health became a problem with his work. Edith realised that as she prayed for others it helped with her own suffering and gave great comfort.
She then submitted a scheme to MU Head Office with the suggestion of praying together could be worthwhile, this lead in 1918 to an experimental group being set up in the Birmingham diocese under the title “”Prisoners of God”, This idea spread to other dioceses and in 1921 was officially incorporated in the MU as the “Invalid Members’ Prayer Circle. By 1928 there were over 1,000 members in 41 dioceses. Edith continued to write for the IMPC until her death in 1943.
By the 1960’s the word invalid in the title was disliked and in 1971 the title was changed to “Indoor Members’ Prayer Circle”. In 1991 prayer leaflets were issued three times a year to IMPC members, the World Wide President sending a letter at Christmas. The leaflets were so popular both with IMPC and branch members, this lead in 2009 becoming the Families Worldwide booklet. IMPC members receiving a letter and card from our World Wide President at Christmas and Easter, this is now being discussed at Mary Sumner House better ways of serving the members.
(This article was written by Shiela Alton, Southwell and Nottingham Area and can be seen in full on the MU website here https://www.mothersunion.org/news/history-indoor-members-prayer-circle)
If members haven’t paid their 2021 subscriptions and still wish to do so please contact me if any help is required.
God be with you all, Jenny
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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.
Funerals
Funerals this past week:
Roger Woodward
In the coming weeks
Margaret Welch
George Follenfant
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
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.