St Mary’s and St Luke’s News & Information for 12 November 2023 – Remembrance Sunday
The Weekly Sheet has this week’s Readings and News on it
Remembrance Weekend
This weekend, to mark Remembrance, we have the following Acts of Remembrance.
Saturday 11 November: St Mary’s will be open from 10:50am with a short Act of Remembrance and prayers at 11am.
Sunday 12 November: we will have an Act of Remembrance within our Sunday services at both churches, the services begin as follows: 9am at St Luke’s Willaston & 10:40am at St Mary’s Wistaston
Annual Shoebox Appeal
Thanks for the great response so far, just a reminder that the deadline for drop-off at St Mary’s is this Sunday 12 November or complete one online – see below.
Once again this year we are partnering with Teams4U, based in Wrexham, to donate Christmas Shoeboxes to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Bosnia and Romania.
For more info, or to fill an online Shoebox, please got to the Teams4U website: teams4u.com
Rose Queen Cake Sale
Our Rose Queen, Sophie, is holding a cake sale in the church hall following St Mary’s church service on Sunday 19th November for donations towards her charity Motherwell Cheshire, thank you in advance.
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 & Prayer Group
Tuesday Bible study group will meet on 21 November & Prayer Group is on the first Thursday of each Month. Jenny V.
Advent Group
Once again this year there will be an Advent Study Group at the Rectory. This is a time to get together in the lead up to Christmas and think a bit more on the theme of Advent and spiritually prepare for Christmas. The group will run for three Tuesdays, 5, 12 & 19 December, 7:30pm-9pm. Come to one or come to all. Further information on the material in the coming weeks. Thanks, Revd Mike.
A Taste of Christmas at the Rectory
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Did someone mention Christmas?
The supermarket Christmas adverts are on the TV, so here are our Christmas Services for this year at both of our churches, make sure you put the dates on your calendars. You can click on the image to see a bigger version.
Sidespeople Needed
Help is needed on 4th Sundays at St Mary’s. We need a couple of Sidespeople to cover the 4th Sundays. If this is something you’d be interested in doing, please chat with either of our Wardens, Sue or Chris.
Pickles, Chutneys, Jams and Christmas puddings
St Mary’s Christmas Fair- Sunday 10 December in the Church Hall after Service. Chris & Mike will again be providing their wonderful home produce of Pickles, Chutneys, Jams, Christmas Puddings and also the Hyacinths Bowls at £6.
The Church Hall will be closed from Monday 13 November for 6 days (as long as all the work goes well), whilst the kitchen undergoes a refurb. The Office will remain open as normal.
Foodbank Reverse Advent Calendar
St Paul’s Foodbank Reverse Advent Calendar. The idea is simply is to ask families, individuals, households and community groups to collect an item of long-life food per day from 1 to 24 November. Please click the image below to view/download the Reverse Advent Calendar. Many thanks for your continued support.
Easyfundraising
Please help St Mary’s to win 1 of 3 donations of £3000 prize fund in #easyfundraising’s new epic Refer to Win giveaway! We will get a free entry for each new supporter who signs up, its quick, and free to sign up: see link below bit.ly/stmaryseasyfundraising
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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Or Click this link: https://www.stmaryswistaston.org.uk/giving.html