Notices for the coming week

ST MARY & ALL SAINTS WITH ST JOHN NOTICES 

Weekly Notices, 19th January 2025

2nd Sunday after Epiphany

 

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.  

 

•  A very happy New year to everyone. Let’s pray that it’s a good one for us all and for the world in general.

 This Sunday 19th January, is the Second Sunday After Epiphany. Our morning worship will be a service of Morning Prayer at the usual time of 11:00am. Lorraine Ashworth will be leading us in our worship and delivering the sermon. The service will be streamed live on Zoom.

• Next Sunday, 26th January,  is the Third Sunday After Epiphany. Our morning worship will be a service of Holy Communion at the usual time of 11:00am. We will be welcoming the Bishop of Bolton, the Rt rev Dr Matthew Porter, who will be leading us in our worship and delivering the sermon. The service will be streamed live on Zoom.

• The Duty Rota, covering the months of December through to April 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 25th January 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 !!!

• The Valley at Prayer

  • The Rossendale Mission Community Prayer Meeting will meet on February 3rd 2025 at 7:00pm on zoom. Please check the page under 'prayer and worship' for details of what we need to pray about this quarter. 

  • These prayer meetings are held on Zoom
    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82033803875?pwd=bmk4Y21ycUhrQkVOTDBNb0hqeElTUT09;
    Meeting Number 820 3380 3875
    Password 795620

•  As part of an ongoing research project, we welcome responses to a short survey which aims to explore your feedback and perspective on some of the changes that have taken place in Manchester Diocese over recent years. These include the restructuring of our deaneries in 2021 and the introduction of our mission communities in 2022. 

  • The survey is open until Friday 31st January and should take around 5 minutes to complete. It is open to anyone who works or worships in our diocese and your responses are completely anonymous.
  • You can find the survey at the following link:   https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/manchesterdiocese-012025

• Our weekly service of Morning Office starts up again on 07/01/25 and then will be every Tuesday morning during term-time at 9:00am.. Please stay afterwards for...

•  Café On The Hill which will re-open at 9.00am on Tuesday Mornings with delicious tea and coffee plus toasts and cakes. The ladies would love to see you.

•  Little Angelscontinues on Wednesdays during term time. Please contact us via Facebook for further information.


•  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 8th February
Saturday 26th April
Saturday 14th June
Saturday 12th July
Saturday 11th October
Saturday 6th December

•  AN URGENT APPEAL :The PCC is seeking a replacement for Heather, who has a demanding full-time job, to take over the vital role of Treasurer to the PCC. Please contact Mike or Lorraine if you would like to discuss this position.

• Community Lunch, We will be taking a break over January and February and will resume on Thursday March 6th

 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.
 

  • North Korea     
  • Somalia       

  • 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!

  • 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:

    • Worship and teaching;

    • How we look after our building;

    • How we look after our land;

    • How we engage with the local community and the wider world;

    • Personal lifestyles

• Connect with God’s creation

  • Bulbs have now been planted in the lower graveyard, focusing on the areas around the Commonwealth War Graves..

  • Following the recent Eco Art Exhibition in church, a donation of £180 has been sent to the A Rocha organisation who co-ordinate the Eco Church movement.

• 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:"I have now restarted Home Communions. 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:

  • 11th March 

 •  Provisional Date of Next APCM

  • APRIL 27th PLEASE can any reports for 2024 be submitted to Lorraine Ashworth at the earliest opportunity.

•  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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