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St Mary’s & St Luke’s News and Information for 29 May 2022


Resources for personal prayer and reflection for the nation of Ukraine and for peace – click here for our dedicated Blog page


Subject to all legal formalities being fulfilled, Rev Paul has been appointed as the new Incumbent of the parishes of St Peter’s Leighton cum Minshull Vernon and St Leonard’s Warmingham.

It looks likely that Paul’s last Sunday with us will be the 24 July. We wish Paul, Jan, Lois & William all the best for their forthcoming move and our prayers will be with them in this new and exciting phase of Paul’s ministry. We will all miss Paul and we’ll have time to thank him more over the coming months


Morning Prayer on Zoom

Morning Prayer on Zoom, 9:30am (usually) Mon & Thurs bit.ly/930mp or by phone: 0203 051 2874 Meeting ID: 850 2058 1307 Passcode: 914961

Church of England Daily Prayer can be found here:
https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer

There is also Daily Hope: a free phone line of hymns, reflections and prayers you can call at any time on 0800 804 8044.


From Sunday 29 May we will be offering The Common Cup (Wine) at Holy Communion (HC) once again. HC will be distributed at the communion rail with ‘priest intinction’ (dipping the wafer) before distribution. If you can’t physically get to the communion rail, or would prefer not to, please let a Sidesperson or Warden know and we will bring it to you. You can also come forward for a Blessing.


If you’d like to do a Bible Reading or The Intercessions (resources supplied) at St Mary’s, in June or July, please add your name to the rota in the porch.


There are still a few seats left for our Llandudno trip on Wednesday 20th July. EVERYONE is welcome Looking forward to seeing you all. Ann and Frances


A Garden Party for the Queen`s Platinum Jubilee – Sunday 5th June at St Luke`s Midday onwards- Tickets now available £3 pp or £10 for a family ticket, includes Hot Drinks and Cake, Bring your own picnic, Bottle, Chairs, Gazebo and wear Red, White and Blue. Tickets are available from Chris Horne 07756575835 and the Church Office.

Jubilee Arrangements and information – Plans are progressing well, we hope you are looking forward to celebrating this momentous date in our country’s history as much as we are. We are praying for good weather! We have been very fortunate in securing a grant from Cheshire East Council towards our costs in putting on this event but one of the conditions of receiving it is that they would like photographs of our celebration. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let Mike Horne know on the day. We are flexible in our timings but please see the running order below:

12noon-1pm – Arrive, set up picnic – Bring own Picnic/chairs/bottle/Gazebo etc. and enjoy “whacking a wellie, giant Four in a row or making a paper soldier etc.

1-2pm –      Time to eat and enjoying each other’s company.
2-3pm –      Quiz – please bring along pen/pencil- exciting prize to be won!
3-4pm –      Cake and a Toast to our Queen on her Platinum Anniversary.
A commemorative book will be presented to each family.


Worship and Celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. On Sunday 5 June, Pentecost Sunday, we will be marking and celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at both churches during our morning services – please make a note and join us.


Jayne Manfredi is being ordained as a Deacon on Sunday 3 July at Chester Cathedral before starting her ministry at St Mary’s, Sandbach. We are having a collection to present her with a gift, please see one of the Wardens to give to this.


Sunday Refreshments
If you would like to join the refreshments team, please sign up via the sheet in the Church Hall or contact Polly or Teresa in the Church Office 01270 567119 or office@stmaryswisaston.org.uk



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.

Click here to give online

Giving via your 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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