St Mary’s and St Luke’s News & Information for 01 October 2023 – Harvest Sunday
The Weekly Sheet has this week’s Readings and News on it
Harvest Sunday this Sunday 1 October
Would you like to help to decorate St Mary’s for Harvest Festival?Join us at 10am Saturday 30 September – all welcome.
This Sunday 1 October we will celebrate Harvest at both of our churches. We will share the gifts between the Crewe & Nantwich Foodbanks. Here are the items of food that is needed, we would encourage you to bring these: tinned Potatoes, Pasta / Spaghetti, tinned Vegetables, Instant pasta meals, Instant flavoured noodles, Soup – tinned and packets, Jars of curry/pasta sauce, Baked beans / tinned spaghetti, Tinned meat meals (chilli, stew etc.), Rice / Microwave Rice, tinned Sponge pudding, Rice pudding, tinned Tomatoes, Instant gravy, tinned Fish, Corned beef, Tinned pork, Fruit juice (long life)/ squash, Biscuits / Crackers / crisps, Custard, tinned, packet or carton, Jam / marmalade, Tea bags / coffee, tinned Fruit, UHT Milk, Cereals, Sugar.
Harvest Lunch: there will be a Bring & Share Lunch in the Church Hall following the service at St Mary’s – please bring savoury & sweet to share.
Infant Loss Service with Motherwell
I need some help at this service. I’d like to offer a cup of tea/coffee after the service (in church), if you can help with this please let me know. Thanks, Mike.
Infant Loss Service: in partnership with Motherwell we will be holding a service for those who have suffered the loss of a young child. It is at St Mary’s Wistaston on Sunday 8 October at 5pm. Please join us if you have been affected by the loss of a child. It will also be on our YouTube Channel at bit.ly/infantlossservice
Annual Shoebox Appeal
Once again this year we are partnering with Teams4U, based in Wrexham, to donate Christmas Shoeboxes to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Bosnia and Romania.
Leaflets and shoeboxes are available at both churches. The deadline for drop-off at St Mary’s is 12 November.
For more info, or to fill an online Shoebox, please got to the Teams4U website: teams4u.com
About the Shoebox Appeal
It is over 25 years since the Cooke family originated the idea of the ‘Christmas Shoebox’, asking children in the UK to fill shoeboxes with stocking fillers for Romanian orphans. In 2015, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary and returned to Cluj-Napoca, Romania to re-visit Dave’s original partner from 1990 Liviu Balas, and brought shoeboxes to the marginalised communities there. The current need is still extraordinary and the power of the shoebox has never faded. See video for more information. If the video doesn’t show below, click here: https://youtu.be/mnAfdxREX-8
Morning Prayer
Morning Prayer on Zoom bit.ly/930mp, 9:30am
on Tuesday & Thursday this week.
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.
The Bible Study group
Tuesday Bible study group will meet 3 & 17 October & Prayer Group will begin Thursday 5 October, then the 1st Thursday of each Month. Jenny V.
Ladies Afternoon Group
The Ladies Afternoon Group commences after the Summer break on Thursday 28th September at 2 pm. We are having a social and quiz and the usual tea and biscuits. We look forward to seeing you there. We welcome any new ladies who would like to join us. A future date for your diaries in 2024. We are hoping to run a trip next summer Thursday 11th July to the National Memorial Arboretum Staffordshire. If you think it might be something that would interest you please see Ann, Pam or myself. We want to get a gist of numbers to book transport. Many thanks, Frances.
After church refreshments at St Mary’s
We have refreshments in the Church Hall following the service at St Mary’s. We need people to sign up to make them, please sign up on the rota in the Church Hall.
An Appeal for men’s clothes and shoes
Hope Church, Crewe are appealing for men’s clothes and shoes for their aid to Asylum Seekers that have been placed in Crewe. Please if you have any clothes and shoes you can donate, please bring to our Church and Catherine Gallagher will arrange to take them to Hope Church.
An Appeal for surplus wool
A big Thank you was passed on to you all for all the surplus wool from the Volunteer knitting group who knit for Nantwich Care homes, you can still bring in left-over wool to the office or to Church and we will pass this on to the group – with thanks in advance, really appreciated.
Men’s Group
Men’s Group – 7.30pm Friday 13 October 2023:
Please join us at the Vine [Nantwich] for beer [non-alcoholic options are available] and afterwards we will go for a Thai meal at Aroi-Thai. Open to all men over 18. Feel free to bring male family and friends. No need to RSVP – see you there! Howard.
Online Service Resources
Service Orders at St Mary’s can be viewed/downloaded at bit.ly/serviceorders or scan the QR Code to the left.
The Weekly Sheet is available at the top of this Blog page.
We will continue have printed Weekly Sheets available, but if you can do it electronically, it means we can print less and not throw as much away.
Our Church Relies upon Personal Giving to Keep Going
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Click the button below to see the ways that you can help.
Or Click this link: https://www.stmaryswistaston.org.uk/giving.html