Weekly Notices

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.

Christmas invitation cards are for you to give to someone you know. Worship details are on the back of the card. If you want more

than one card, help yourself. There are also some posters advertising the Christingle Carol Service – please post these in visible

places. The timing of the Christmas Eve Communion at 11pm was a mistake. But now that time has been published, it would

cause too much confusion to correct the time to 11.30pm. So the time is 11pm.

Christmas flowers: there is a plate at the back for donations.

Carol-singing: please encourage patients/residents by making a joyful noise at the Royal Oldham Hospital at 6.15 on Tuesday 22

December – free parking tickets will be available from Biddy Dawson. Carol-singing at Abbot’s Grange and Coppice Care Homes

is today, Sunday – meet outside Abbot’s Grange, Newport Street at 1.30pm.

CofE Children’s Society: donations through boxes this year totalled £256.49. Many thanks.

The Mothers’ Union Coffee Morning on 6 December raised £115.77. Thanks again.

New pages on our website: ‘What have we been up to’, ‘Church Windows’, and ‘Mothers’ Union’. There were approx 250 visits to

the website in October and only slightly less in November. Congratulations to Tony Kane, our webmaster! Do take a look at the

website if you haven’t already done so, or if you are not on line ask a friend to show it to you: www.stthomaswerneth.co.uk. Tony

always needs photos – preferably digital, but ordinary ones can be scanned and returned.

Beth Jennings’ December Prayer Letter about work with homeless mothers and children in Dhaka, Bangladesh – copies (pink) at

the back.

Marta Yacub: we have been told that she is in Canada. Please continue to pray for her as she adjusts to a new country.

The January magazine: deadline is Wednesday 16th. Give items to Margaret Haslam or Sallie Milnes.

School inspection: we congratulate staff, pupils and governors on a good report published recently. See the cutting from the

Oldham Chronicle in the porch.

The Booth Centre for homeless people, Manchester: see the recent newsletter in the porch, including the Christmas Appeal.

Word of Life Australia: copies of prayer letter at the back.

CofE Pensions Board: see letter from them posted in the porch, seeking to address recent questions in the press.

Shadowlands: a film on the later life of C.S. Lewis. Andrew doesn’t remember who borrowed his home-recorded video copy.

Please check and return it.

Gift Day on 22 November was the occasion of a provisional total of £3401 donated, £1900 less than the final total in 2008. If you and

others were unable to give on Gift Day itself, gifts will be welcome any time before Christmas. Please use the yellow Gift envelopes

– if you are a taxpayer, please complete your details on the back of the envelope. Non-taxpayers can leave it blank. Please think and

pray about how much you should give. Some of us have smaller incomes because of the recession, others not. Some of us may

know ourselves called to live more simply so that the Church of God can continue her work.

THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS

†  ‘Christmas Experience’ – with our Year 5 children tomorrow

†  Carol-singing in Care Homes – today

†  Christingle Carol Service – next Sunday

†  Our own time in Advent

†  A priest for St Paul’s, and eventually St Thomas’

†  Give thanks and pray for people we know in Christian service and outreach, especially Shelagh Wynne, an administrator

equipping serving Friends of China; all involved in service and outreach at the Salt Cellar.

†  People seeking asylum: David, Sobia, young Sara and baby Daniel William.

†  Those who are unwell - especially baby Roxy Butler, Wendy Robinson, Norman and Alma Flint, Andy Sharrock and his wife Ruth

caring for him, Beatrice Howard, baby Harry Pleasant, Barbara Hogg, Hilda Bateson, Helen Holt, Joanna Goforth, John Lalley,

Grace Whetham, Ian Kidder, Muriel Brown, Marjorie Milner, young twins Todd & Aaron Funnell, Julie Brown, John Wrigley, Angela

and Norman Taylor, Jenny Bartlett, Ronald Spivey, George Gill and others whom we know.

†  The bereaved: especially the family and friends of Alan Whittaker.