St Mary’s & St Luke’s Services, Readings, News & Church at Home Resources for 02 May 2021 – Easter 5
May Magazine
Below is the May Magazine, which doubles up as the Weekly Sheet for this week. It has the readings, Collect and Post Communion Prayer in it.
In Church Worship at St Luke’s & St Mary’s
Both St Luke’s and St Mary’s are open with a booking system is in place for Sunday Worship for the time being. Please click here for details of how to book. We are taking bookings at the moment until the end of May and Ascension Day on 13 May. You can book for multiple services at a time.
Face coverings and Social distancing are still in place until the government say it’s safe not to. Please see the link above for further Covid-19 details re attending worship.
It is with sadness that I inform you of the death of David Ballard. David, and his late wife Audrey, were members of the St Mary’s congregation for many years. David used his horticultural expertise in the management of the churchyard for many years for which I will be always grateful. Revd Mike (Rector)
Funerals this past week
Madeleine Tutt
Funerals still to take place
David Ballard
Margarita Jones
Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM)
Our APCM for 2021 is on Sunday 16 May 2021 at 12 noon. Due to the Covid restrictions in place, and with permission from the Bishop of Chester, the meeting will be an online only meeting on Zoom. The meeting is open to anyone on the church’s Electoral Roll and you can register to attend the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsceuoqD8pHdGRAYJmGQa4NqluoS5c-Ymj
We will be electing 2 Church Wardens and 7 Members to the PCC. All the forms needed are here and are available at both churches.
There will also be access by phone, please contact Revd Mike for the details if you’d like to ‘attend’ that way.
The Church Electoral Roll
The Electoral Roll had a period of revision ahead of the APCM which finished on Sunday 25 April. The Roll is available for inspection in the porch at St Mary’s or online here.
Christian Aid (CA). Due to the pandemic, we were not able to do the annual CA sponsored swim, but this year our young people (and some older) are doing a sponsored walk (separately) and plan to walk 20,000 steps (10 miles) from 10th to 16th May (CA Week). If you would like to sponsor them as a group, or if you would like to take part, give Sarah Turnbull a call (01270 665742) for more details. Through this we will raise money to support people in places like Kenya who are suffering from the impact of climate change.
Christian Aid Week – 10-16 May. The local Crewe Christian Aid Committee has decided that won’t be a door-to-door (or envelope drop-off) once again this year due to the ongoing Covid situation. You can go to caweek.org for details of this year’s campaign and how to give. There will be more information coming out over the next few weeks on more ways to support CA this year.
Church at Home Resources for all ages
Together @ Home 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.
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.org
The Bible Society Bible Book Club
This is a fantastic free resource that 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 St Mary’s & St Luke
The church’s finances are under extreme pressure at the moment. I would ask you to review your personal giving to the church. If you already give regularly then perhaps consider increasing your giving, if you don’t give regularly then perhaps consider doing this. I really do appreciate the giving that happens already and the extra giving that has taken place during the pandemic. However, due to the lack of income from not being in church and from not being able to let the church hall, plus our outgoings being fairly fixed, we have lost around £30,000 in the past 12 months. This obviously places us in a difficult and vulnerable financial position. To find out more about giving to church, the ways you can do it, and how you can do it in a tax-efficient way, please take a look below. Please keep our finances in your prayers.
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 you Bank – online or phone
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.
We’ve raised over £1600 through Easyfundraising. For more information on this please click here.
Giving Leaflet with
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