Notices for the Week Commencing 13 June 2010
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Laying on of hands and anointing: for healing of mind, body and spirit is available after 10.30 worship every Sunday in the South Transept (to the right of the pulpit). You will not be invited to say specifically why you seek this ministry, though you are welcome to do so if you wish. You are also welcome to request prayer on behalf of someone else, in addition to or instead of yourself. Annual Income Survey,organised by the Diocese, will be on Sunday 30 May, and Sundays 6, 13 & 20 June. Parish Share is the system that the Diocesan Synod (Council) uses to calculate how much money each church contributes to the costs of the diocese. These costs include paying for clergy stipends (salaries), housing, pensions, training of future clergy and supporting less well-off congregations. To calculate the Parish Share, the Diocesan Synod has decided that it needs to take account of the incomes of all regular worshippers in the diocese. You are asked to complete the income survey only if you are aged 16 or over and attend St Thomas’ at least 12 times per year. Once you have ticked the relevant boxes, fold the form over so that it remains anonymous, place it in the box at the back of the church and place a marble in the bowl. Nathaniel, Donna and Micah Jennings wrote in February to thank us for our contribution last year (£375) towards funding their work of English teaching and Christian witness in Bangladesh. Holiday Club planning meetingis on Thursday 8 July, 7.30pm at 69 Northgate. Refugee Weekis 14-20 June. Among a full programme of events (see poster in porch) note ‘Our Own Words’ on Thursday 17 June, 7 to 8.30pm at the Sixth Form College. Buffet, drinks, live music, Indian dancing and African choir before refugees tell their own moving stories. Refugee Actionhave published two booklets - ‘The Facts and Fibs’ and ‘How to welcome asylum-seekers in 11 easy steps’. Copies are available free at the back. First photos from Whit Walks:in the porch, more to come! Prayer lettershave arrived from: Shelagh Wynne; Beth Jennings (full colour); Word of Life UK (green); Word of Life Australia. All at the back. Latches on the side gates will break if the gates are forced open. Please lift the latches! St Saviour’s Centenary,Denton Lane, Chadderton: events include a Flower Festival ending at 4pm today, Sunday. Anniversary Service 2.30pm, also today. Sadhu Sundar Singh:see June parish magazine. There will be an Act of Thanksgiving for his life and witness on Saturday at 4.30pm, at St Bride’s, Blair Street, Old Trafford, M16 9AZ. The speaker will be the Revd. Rana Youab Khan from Lahore Diocese, Pakistan, but currently working at Lambeth Palace. There will be refreshments afterwards. If you intend to go, or would like a lift, let Andrew know. Sheka Tarawhalie,former asylum-seeker who married Rose in 2007, is now the press officer for the President of Sierra Leone. He has sent an e-mail message saying that they are both well and happy! The Children’s Society gardenhas won a prize at the Chelsea Flower Show. It was designed in consultation with children, to be a place where they could chill out under the trees and among the shrubs, play around the plunge pool surrounded by aquatic plants, or even munch a pizza straight from the clay oven.
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS
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