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.
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. There are two possible times for singing at the Abbot’s Grange and Coppice Care Homes, 1.30pm on Sunday 13th or 3.15pm on Wednesday 16th. Please indicate one or both times when you could be available.
‘Christmas Experience’: brief preparation meeting in the Memorial Chapel after the service today.
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.
Bible reading notes help us both in our understanding and in making a good habit of listening to God often. We have been considering this and the various different kinds of publication in the past few weeks. Now is a convenient time to start the method either for the first time or by using a different publication. Please contact either Mavis Booth (652 3981) or me by Sunday 6 December.
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.
Assistance for disabled worshippers: for some time a wheelchair has been put on permanent loan to us for the use of people worshipping on an occasional basis or in case of emergency. This is sited in a pew near the Baptistery. On each occasion of its infrequent use, the tyres should be checked – a pump is available nearby. Also there is a temporary ramp for the entrance into the porch. This is stored between the curtain and the door connecting the porch and the main building. The advice of the Wardens or Andrew should be sought before setting up the ramp. Also, there is a loop system for those who are hard of hearing, usable by those with hearing aids with a ‘T’ setting
2010 calendars with beautiful photos and Bible verses published by Word of Life are available at the back at £1.50 each, in English and many other languages – make good presents.
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS
Tudor Community Sports Group – meeting on Monday
Positive Perceptions – meeting on Monday
Church Council – meeting on Tuesday
Our own time in Advent
St Thomas income – trust and obey God
A priest for St Paul’s, and eventually St Thomas’
Give thanks and pray for people we know in Christian service and outreach, especially Joe and Denny Fleming in Vellore, India; D, M, and K W.
People seeking asylum: David, Sobia, young Sara and baby Daniel William; Marta Yacub.
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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
