Church is not Cancelled – it’s Online and Thriving!

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said today that ‘the church is reinventing itself and 10,000s of more more people have watched services online than guise who go to our churches of a Sunday!’ At St Mary’s we have Live Streamed reflections and services over the past week and Paul & I plan to continue

Lectio 365 by 24-7 Prayer

LECTIO 365 is a daily devotional resource that helps you pray the Bible every day.  DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE (APPLE)  DOWNLOAD ON PLAY STORE (ANDROID)  Written by leaders from the 24-7 Prayer movement, and produced in partnership with CWR, this resource helps you engage with Scripture to inspire prayer and shape your life. Journey through the year

Growing in faith together

Five simple ideas for families to weave prayer and bible readings throughout these days of home schooling from Thy Kingdom Come. 1.      Keep a regular routine of prayer. Good times to pray together are those times you do something regularly, eating together, going to bed or washing your hands! Or Light a candle and Pray the same family

Free Bible Study by Tom Wright

FREE: Thy Kingdom Come have made available a £150 Bible study course that you can do online or in your mobile/tablet for free. Don’t delay though as the cut off time is fast approaching – this Friday at 17:00 – don’t miss out. Click Here to go to get it for free. Here are more

Order of Service for Mothering Sunday 22 March 2020

If you would like to join us online for our Live Stream service for Mothering Sunday you will find it live from 10:30am on our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/stmaryandstluke You can view/download the service using the download link below Many thanks to One Licence who have given churches the oportunity to get a license for free

Watch our live streams on your TV!

Someone’s shared this with me, and I haven’t time to test it, but if you have an Amazon Fire Stick (you’ll know if you have one!) then you can watch Facebook streams live on your TV. Here’s a link on how to set it up: https://www.facebook.com/help/276515126152168If you have any experience please share it in a

Resources Reading the Bible online…

Oremus Bible Browser – this also does the Lectionary readings for each day including Sundays – the link below takes you to this Sunday but you can then choose any day from the calendar: http://almanac.oremus.org/2020-03-22 Bible readings and reading plans available at these two websites, they also do Apps for most smartphones & tablets:Biblegateway –

Some initial resources

Here are a few resources to begin with – more will be added asap. Including the service order for this Sunday’s live stream at 10:40am – see you there – virtually. The Church of England have produced Prayer for use at this time – here are a couple. You can access the Church of England