Notices for the coming week

ST MARY & ALL SAINTS WITH ST JOHN NOTICES 

Weekly Notices, 30th August 2026
Thirteenth  Sunday After Trinity

Rossendale Team Ministry: Making Jesus Known

Our vision is to follow Jesus by learning His ways and sharing His love  

We seek to enjoy fellowship together as we worship God, grow in discipleship, develop in ministry and reach our community with the gospel.  

We value welcome, worship and witness.  

 

Please Continue to Check the Prayer and Worship section for the readings and sermon for each week. The 4 week rota schedule for worship leaders, readers, intercessors and sidespeople is live on the website. We also have produced a copy of the Morning Prayer Service and a copy of the service of Holy Communion. Please select the appropriate link for the service.  

• This Sunday 30th August, the 13th Sunday after Trinity there will be Holy Communion at 11 am , led by the Rev Samuel Hameem, who will also be preaching.The service will be streamed live on Zoom.

.• Next Sunday 6th September, the 14th Sunday after Trinity. Lorraine Asshworth will be leading us in a service for all the family at 11:00am. The service will be streamed live on Zoom.

• On the fourth Sunday of each month, we make an effort to fill our Grub Tub and make a monthly donation of food and other consumables to the local foodbank, RAFT. Please consider making a donation of non-perishable foodstuffs, toiletries, hygiene products, etc. to this monthly appeal. The next collection is this Sunday, 30th August 

•  The Well is a monthly prayer and worship group organised by Rev Derek Allen on the last Saturday of each month on Zoom. The next meeting is Saturday 29th August at 7:00pm The Zoom Meeting Number is : 875 3406 1730, and the Password is 167677

•  Please contact us via email - stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com if you wish to join the services or if you wish to receive a recording of the service.  

Although we’re broadcasting our services on Zoom, there are still other places to take part in worship, if you can’t make it to the Zoom service . Here are just some of the other options

•  At 08:10am, the Sunday worship on BBC Radio 4. and at 9:00am, on The Church of England’s Facebook Page and live streaming on Facebook and YouTube as well as on the CofE’s website, both live and recorded.

•  Please check out the Rossendale Team YouTube channel also https://www.youtube.com/@RossendaleTeam316 where a different member of the clergy team leads a short act of worship with contributions from different church members from across the team

• If you are unable to join us in church or on Zoom on a Sunday morning, but would still like to join in some worship on a Sunday, St Anne’s hold a service at 6:30pm each week. This service is also streamed live on Zoom. The Zoom Meeting Number to join this is 810 2414 1313, and the Password is 362633. These numbers are used every week. 

• Our weekly service of Morning Office takes place on Tuesday at 9.00am. Please stay on afterwards for ....

•  Café On The Hill  which is from 9.00am onwards with delicious tea and coffee plus cakes. The ladies would love to see you. 

•  Our church will be hosting 24 hours of prayer on Sept 10th. This will be from 9am on Sept 10th, until 9am on Sept 11th. This coincides with the global week of 24/7 prayer with the theme, At the name of Jesus. There will be prayer stations, and led times of worship, as well as plenty of opportunity for people to prayer silently as they feel led. Mike is developing a rota with hour slots, so we need people to join the rota. If you are able to commit in advance, please contact Mike: stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com or fill in the rota at the back of church.

•  Little Angels will be back on Wednesday 9th September from 9:30-11:30am.

•  The next Community Lunch will be on Thursday, 3rd September, at 12 noon. Please add your name to the list in the Parish Room, if you wish to attend or are able to help with washing up, etc…

• MESSY CHURCH 

 

Please note the new starting time.
Food, Fun, Crafts and Worship for all the family Tell your friends to come along and see !!

  • Dates for Messy Church for the remainder of the year are

    • Saturday 28th November : Messy Christmas

    • Do put these dates in your diary (or Calendar App !!)

•  Advance Notice The church building in which we worship will be celebrating its bicentenary in 2028. To mark this special year, we aim to celebrate with a range of events throughout the year. If you are interested in joining a working party to start the planning of the year, please come along to a meeting at the Café On The Hill on Tuesday 15th September.

•  Jam Jars ! – Or jars of any size. Our events team are launching an initiative of a “jar exchange” to support our East Window fundraising efforts. This works by you filling a jar with coins (or folding stuff) and bringing it in to church to exchange for an empty jar. Repeat as often as you can !!

• Home Communion :If you or a member of your family would like to have communion at home, please let Lorraine know. Thank you. If you don’t have Lorraine’s contact details, but would like home communion, please email - stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com

• TEAM EVENTS - God Loves Rossendale

St Mary & All Saints Church will be hosting a team 24 hour prayer day on 10th September from 9.00am Thursday to 9am Friday. Please note the date. This coincides with the global week of 24/7 prayer with the theme, At the name of Jesus. There will be prayer stations, and led times of worship, as well as plenty of opportunity for people to prayer silently as they feel led.

•   Did you know? Over 22000 Christians were killed by Islamic militants in Africa last year. The charity Open Doors has been publishing a list each year since 1955 of the 50 countries in the world, where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. What can we do about this? Well, the main thing we can do is pray and that is why we are going to  list the countries  on the notices so that you can include such persecuted Christians in your prayers. We can also pray specifically @missionEnablers every Thursday. There will also be more information on the notice board at the back of church if you interested in seeing the list in its entirety. 

    • North Korea               Somalia                   Yemen               Libya                          Sudan                      Eritrea
      Nigeria                        Pakistan                  Iran                   Afghanistan                India                        Saudi Arabia
      Myanmar                     Mali                         China                Maldives                     Iraq                          Syria
      Algeria                        Burkina Faso          Morocco           Laos                           Mauritania               Bangladesh
      Niger                          Turkmenistan          Nicaragua         Uzbekistan                Cuba                        Central African Republic
      Mexico                       Oman                       Ethiopia            Tunisia                       Bhutan                     Dem Rep of Congo   
      Mozambique              Kazakhstan            Tajikistan           Egypt                        Qatar                         Comoros
      Cameroon                 Vietnam                   Turkey                Colombia                  Kyrgyzstan               Brunei
      Chad                         Jordan

  • Lord, I pray for those for whom sharing Your gospel may mean going to prison or being killed. Holy Spirit, strengthen and help them, just as Jesus promised, fill them with the joy and courage to keep telling people of Your love. In His name I pray. Amen

• Calling all Eco Warriors!

  • You may have noticed that the saplings we received from the Woodland Trust have now been planted along the path leading up through the graveyard ! 

  • The Himalayan Balsam is growing again at the bottom of the graveyard and in the adjacent field. If you have a spare hour, please consider pulling some up – both in the graveyard and the field – to stop it spreading. Access to both is via the bottom path. It just needs pulling up and laying on the floor. The aim is to stop the seeds from spreading. Thank you.

  • We are now close to achieving the Silver Award.

• Flowers in church : Jean Ellison has asked me to remind everyone that there is a calendar-type of list on the notice board for members of the congregation to add their names if they would like to donate money for flowers in church on a given date in memory of someone or a special anniversary etc. Please see Jean for further information. God makes the flowers grow, but we do have to pay those who labour to get them to the flower shops !!

•  Prayers for members of our extended church family: If you or any of your loved ones are in need of prayer, please do contact the church via the contact us page or email - stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com We cannot list names on the website but we will pray for these people in church and at home.

•  Do you shop online? If so, there is a way to raise funds for church while youre doing so. The church is now registered with easyfundraising.org.uk In logging in to this website and following their links through to such online stores as Amazon, Currys, Argos, Marks & Spencer or Dominos Pizzas and many more, you can help raise up to 2% or even more of your spend for our church. This does not affect such things as Amazon Prime membership or delivery benefits. For a link straight to our church page, The Website address is found here

•  A note to those members of the church, who make their donations in cash 

We would be most grateful if you could : 

  • Use cash, rather than cheques.  
  • Use one envelope for each week.  
  • If this is not possible, please write clearly on any envelope with money for several weeks, which weeks the contents of the envelope cover.  

We would also ask you to please consider switching to donating through standing order. If you wish to do so, here are the bank details :

  • Account Name : St Mary & All Saints with St John's  
  • Sort Code : 09-01-53  
  • Account Number : 75875484  

 •  Date of Next PCC Meetings to be held at 7.15pm in the parish room:
Provisional Dates for this year’s PCC Meetings :
8th September (Preceded by AGM for Friendship Lodge at 6:30pm)
10th November
12th January
9th March

•  Pastoral Care Matters : The pastoral team work hard to stay in regular touch with our house bound church members. However, if you know of anyone who would benefit from a telephone call or a home visit, especially if they are ill or recovering, could you please let Elaine know so that something can be organised. Thank you.

  • On a similar note Janice has asked that if any one knows of a member of our church family who is celebrating a milestone birthday to let her know so we can recognise the occasion appropriately.

  • If you feel the need for support, please email us on stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com, We will be able to pass your details to the appropriate people.

•  If you have any Notices to be shared, please email them to stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com by Thursday evening, so that they can be included on the Sunday Notices circular. If you wish to receive the notices electronically each week, please speak to Mike or email the above address.  

 

 

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