Weekly Notices 7 Ferbruary 2010

 

St Thomas’ Notices

 

Second Sunday before Lent

(7February)  2010

 

Tuesday

  Joint Home Group at 51 Green Lane

8pm

Wednesday

  Holy Communion at St Paul’s

9.15am

Saturday

  Pancake Coffee Morning in our School

10.30am

Next Sunday

  Holy Communion in the Memorial Chapel  

8am

 

  Morning Worship (2000)

10.30am

 

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.

A handrail at the Chancel steps is being planned. We are now at the stage of seeking a Faculty (permission) from the Diocese. The details are posted in the porch. The Cof E is exempt from local authority planning procedures because it undertakes its own.

Pancake Coffee Morning in School next Saturday will also include a Raffle and Bring & Buy Stall. The £1 admission includes a coffee and your first pancake. 10.30am to noon.

Our Lent programme starting on Ash Wednesday 17 February is published in our February Parish magazine. It includes a choice of two Home Groups, preferably one in the evening and one during the day. If you can offer your home as a venue once a week for 5 weeks, please let Andrew know.

Community involvement in Coppice/Werneth:discussions to identify barriers to community involvement. All welcome – Tuesdays 9 & 16 February 1-2pm in the Werneth and Freehold Centre, 14 Tamworth Street. Further info: 0791 7617327.

People needed for independent school appeal panels:deciding parents’ appeals when a child is not offered a place at their preferred school. Full details at www.oldham.gov.uk/school_appeals_panels, or phone 0161 770 4728.

Word of Life Australia prayer letter for February has arrived, copies at the back.

re: Lent is a creative worship event, led by Bishop Mark and others, for young and old to explore together Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan, and think about the role of forgiveness and reconciliation. Each event has been timed to enable children to attend as well as young people and adults. Each session will include Bible study and interactive creative activities. Please bring food for a bring and share tea, and the organisers will provide cake and drinks. Sunday 14 February from 4 to 7pm, at St. Martin’s, Castleton, Rochdale. Please sign the clipboard at the back.

 

Made in Heaven: an exhibition celebrating marriage across the faith communities of Greater Manchester. Arranged by the Mothers’ Union and the Cathedral, in the Cathedral, 7-14 February, free entry.

Rochdale Archdeaconry Healing Quiet Morning:Bishop Chris of Bolton will speak on “Whatever you do in word or deed, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him” – Colossians 3, v17. In two sessions, each followed by a half hour of silence, we will be helped to see how we can live the ordinary moments of our lives, seeing this as part of our journey into wholeness. Saturday 6 March from 9.30am to 1pm at All Saints & Martyrs Church, Langley. £5. Book on the clipboard, deadline for booking is 28 February.

Word of Life open meetingon Saturday 6 March from 1.30 to 4pm at Bethel Church, Waterloo Street. This may include short testimonies from people who have used Word of Life materials over the year.

‘One Safer Oldham’is a leaflet with crime prevention tips at home, in the car and when you’re out and about. Copies at the back.

 

 

X   THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER REQUESTS   X

 

  • St Thomas’ School Governors– meeting on Tuesday
  • Churches Together Dinner – on Friday, Bishop Chris speaking
  • The opportunities of Lent – in St Thomas’, and with Bishop Mark
  • Ken and Pauline Pleasant – thanksgiving for their fellowship and service, and prayer for them as they move to Timperley
  • Nick and Gina Andrewes, their daughters Isabel and Esther (moving to St Paul’s in May), and the people of their present parish
  • Give thanks and pray for people we know in Christian service and outreach, especially Joe and Denny Fleming at the Christian Centre in Vellore, India, engaged not only in medical work but in witnessing to non-Christians and equipping Christians among staff and students.
  • People seeking asylum: Pray for David, Sobia, young Sara and baby Daniel William.
  • Those who are unwell: baby Roxy Butler, Wendy Robinson, Norman and Alma Flint, Andy and Ruth Sharrock, Beatrice Howard, baby Harry Pleasant, Barbara Hogg, Joanna Goforth, John Lalley, Grace Whetham, Ian Kidder, Muriel Brown, Marjorie Milner, young twins Todd & Aaron Funnell, John Wrigley, Angela and Norman Taylor, Ronald Spivey, Julie Brown and others whom we know.
  • The bereaved:all known to us who mourn, whether their bereavement is recent or long ago.

 

All material for the church bulletin should be given to Andrew

no later than Wednesday lunchtime.


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