ST MARY & ALL SAINTS WITH ST JOHN NOTICES
Weekly Notices, 29th June 2025
2nd 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 29th June is Second Sunday after Trinity when Denise Smith will lead our morning worship, which will take the form of Café Church at the usual time of 11:00am. This service is not streamed on Zoom
• Next Sunday. 6th July is the Third Sunday after Trinity when Rev Laura Brinicombe will lead us in a service of Holy Communion at the usual time of 11:00am. The service will be streamed live on Zoom for those of you unable to make it to church in person.
• The Duty Rota, covering the months of May through to August is now available. It will be emailed to those with email, copied for those with no email access and posted on the notice board in the Parish Room and the Vicar’s Vestry. If you are unavailable on any Sunday for which you have been allocated a duty, please arrange to swap with someone else for that date.
• 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 26th July 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.
• Also, DON’T forget to follow the Facebook page set up by our Family & Community Worker, Claire. – Search for ARK – Anglican Rossendale Kids on Facebook. It’s GREAT !!!
• There is to be a Grant Funding Training Day on Thursday 3rd July from 09:45-15:45 at St John’s House, Bury. This could be of interest to anyone involved not only in church finances and fundraising, but also those involved in other organisations. See Mike Black for details on how to register for this FREE training course.
• Our weekly service of Morning Office is back each Tuesday morning 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.
• Little Angels are meeting in the Parish Room on Wednesday Morning from 9:30-11:30am. Numbers have been low in recent weeks, so please do encourage anyone you know with toddlers to come along..
• MESSY CHURCH The dates for our Messy Church gatherings for this year have now been set, so please do note them down in your diaries (or add them to your calendars on your phones!!) and get your friends, neighbours and families to do the same. – COME AND SEE what they’re about !!. They are :
Saturday 6th September
Saturday 11th October
Saturday 6th December
• Community Lunch, will next be on Thursday, 3rd July.The organising team are trying to keep the cost at £7.00 per person. A list is in the Parish Room for those wishing to come along to confirm their attendance. If you haven’t been to a Community Lunch before, but wish to join in, please add your name to the list. Thank you.
• The next Gentlemen’s Curry Night will be on Thursday 10th July at the Indian Harvest at 7:00pm. Please book in this week with Mike.
• The next Ladies who Lunch will also be on Thursday 10th July at Owens in Ramsbottom at 12.00 noon. Please book in this week with Elaine.
• 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 !!
Did you know? That 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 start listing the countries week by week on the notices so that you can include such persecuted Christians in your prayers. We can also pray specifically @missionEnablers every Thursday. We will add a country to the notices prayer list every week until we have 10 on the list before deleting the first while adding the next – hopefully this process will become clear, as we go along. 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. This year’s list of countries where Christians are persecuted was published on Wednesday 15th January.
- China
- Algeria
- Iraq
- Syria
- Maldives
- Burkina Faso
- Morocco
- Laos
- Mauritania
- Bangladesh
- Uzbekistan
- Cuba
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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!
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We have achieved the Bronze Award as an Eco church and are now looking for volunteers to share ideas and help develop our resources to express our care for God’s world in this place. There is still much to be done to achieve the Silver Award. There are five areas to work on:
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Worship and teaching;
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How we look after our building;
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How we look after our land;
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How we engage with the local community and the wider world;
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Personal lifestyles
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A message from Elaine
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In response to Laura’s question regarding our progress towards the silver award for eco church, I thought I had better look at the survey again.
To achieve this award will require a lot of work and quite a few paper exercises. It is something that the whole church need to take ownership of, as the ethos they are wanting to create, encompasses a complete awareness of climate changes and what we can all do to improve the state of Gods wonderful creation.
To refresh your memories the award covers five areas:-
Worship and teaching - where we could achieve a gold award;
Buildings and Energy - where we were lucky to claim a bronze status;
Land and Nature
Community and Global Engagement
Lifestyle
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What I will propose at the next PCC meeting is that ‘we’ establish an action plan for the Lifestyle category and work from there.
As part of the Community and Global section, which I think would link with the Lifestyle section, we require an Environment policy and a Net Zero Action plan, so this may be something we can work on at the same time.
I have printed out Overviews for all five categories and pinned them on the Eco board at the back of church. If you take time to read just one, I think you will realise that working towards the next award is not as straight forward as I would like it to be. Any support would be gratefully received.
• Connect with God’s creation
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Bulbs have now been planted in the lower graveyard, focusing on the areas around the Commonwealth War Graves..
• 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.
- If you, or any of your loved ones, are in need of prayer, please do contact the church via email or phone.
• A message from Lorraine regarding Home Communion:"If you would like a visit, please let me know. Thank you." If you don’t have Lorraine’s contact details, but would like home communion, please use the contact us page, or email - stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com
• 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 details, contact the church via the contact us page or email - stmarygoodshaw@yahoo.com The website address is https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk
• 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:
- 1st July
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TBC at the 1st meeting
• 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.
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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.