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.

Small booklets about Christmas are available at the back. Help yourself!

A Christmas card from Joe and Denny Fleming, Vellore, India is at the back – to all of us.

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.

A pair of spectacles (ladies’ or girls’) were found in the church building during the week of 13 December. Apply to Biddy Dawson.

The Parish magazine for January will be published sometime over Christmas.

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

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.

THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS

G  All who are working at Christmas, and all who lead worship

G  Carol-singing at the Royal Oldham Hospital – Tuesday evening

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

G  Give thanks and pray for people we know in Christian service and outreach, especially the Jennings family in Bangladesh; John and

Joanne O’Neill with the Church Army in Northern Ireland.

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

G  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, Nathaniel Jennings (following removal of appendix), Andrew Dawson and others whom we know.

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

Please take this bulletin with you when you leave.

Please do not leave it in your service book or in the pew.