Weekly Notices for Week Commmencing 6 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. Envelopes for Planned Giving for the year starting in June are available at the back. To those who don’t at present use them, or a standing order at the bank, note that both are ways of giving every week, even on those days when you yourself are absent. With both methods you do set aside funds every week, whether or not you are always at worship. Contact Peter Waters on 624 1083. 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. Latches on the side gates will break if the gates are forced open. Please lift the latches! Holiday Club planning meetingis on Thursday 8 July, 7.30pm at 69 Northgate. ‘Shadowlands’is a play about the Christian writer C.S. Lewis - his marriage in middle life, the terminal illness of his wife and his bereavement. It is being performed on 30 June – tickets can be booked with Barbara Duxbury. £7. Prayer letters have arrived from: Beth Jennings (full colour); Word of Life UK (green); Word of Life Australia. All at the back. Refugee Weekis 14-20 June. Among a full programme of events (see poster in porch) note ‘Our Own Words’ on Thursday 17 June, 7-8.30pm at the Sixth Form College. Buffet, drinks, live music, Indian dancing and African choir before refugees tell their own moving stories. Help! There’s an asylum-seeker in my church:day conference on Saturday 26 June 10am-4pm at Brunswick Parish Church, M13 9TQ. Tickets £15, £10 concessions. More info in the porch or from Andrew. First photos from Whit Walks:in the porch, more to come! 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
All material for the church bulletin should be given to Andrew not later than Wednesday lunchtime.
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