Notices for the coming week

ST MARY & ALL SAINTS WITH ST JOHN NOTICES 

Weekly Notices, 18th October 2026
Twentieth  Sunday After Trinity – Disability Awareness Sunday
 

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 NOTE - THE WEBSITE WILL NOT BE UPDATED UNTIL SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER

 

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.  

• Good News On The Square is a gathering of Christians of all denominations on the “Town Square” in Rawtenstall on Saturday 17th October from 1:00-3:00pm. Volunteers are being asked for to help with stewarding. If you can help, please email Keith at King Valley Church on kvc1@hotmail.co.uk

• This Sunday, 18th October, the 20th Sunday after Trinity, Rev Chich Hewitt will lead us in a service of Holy Communion at 11:00am. The service will be streamed live on Zoom.

 

  • Sion Baptist Church are celebrating the 354th Church Anniversary on 18th October with a service at 3:00pm. The preacher will be the President of the Baptist Union, Alex Afriyie. All are welcome.

.• Next Sunday 25th October, the 21st Sunday after Trinity, Rev Samuel Hameem will lead us in a Family Service with Holy Baptism at 11:00am. The service will be streamed live on Zoom. Don’t forget that, on the last Sunday of each month, we are making 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 will be on Sunday 25th October.

•  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 24th OCtober 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. 

•  Little Angels will be back from 9:30-11:30am.

• The Message Trust, in conjunction with Lancashire Constabulary, will be sending teams into all six secondary schools in Rossendale in the coming months to talks about the dangers of drug abuse and of being caught up in “county lines”. The Message Trust Call to Prayer
Romans 10:13-14
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
God has opened doors for the Message Trust to talk to the children in six secondary schools in the Rossendale Valley in December. Praise the Lord! As Churches and as individuals we need to take full advantage of this amazing opportunity and be open to what God asks us to do. We need to come together to praise, worship and give thanks for God’s plans to bring more people into His Kingdom here in our valley. We need to listen to what our Lord is saying, be inspired, receive guidance and ask Him to ignite a passion in each of us to pray and help in any way we can. St Mary’s and St Pauls churches have very kindly agreed to host prayer breakfasts, these have been arranged:
At St Mary’s Church Rawtenstall on Saturday 24th October at 9:30
At St Paul’s Church Centre Hollin Lane on Saturday 28th November at 9:30
Please come along and if your Church does not currently have any young people but you are interested in supporting new believers make yourself known on the day.

•  Gift Day this year will be on Sunday 1st November, which falls on our name day, All Saints Day.

•  On Friday 6th November, Peter and Laura will be hosting another of their entertaining Quiz Nights. Tickets are on sale at £5 each. Bring your own liquid refreshments and two £1 coins for the stand-up bingo !!

•  Advance Notice The next Community Lunch will be on Thursday, 5th November, 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…

• Advance Notice The next Gentlemen’s Curry Night at the Indian Harvest will be on Thursday 12th November at the usual time of 7:00pm. Please let Mike know if you wish to attend. 

• The next Ladies Who Lunch will also be out and about again on Thursday 12th November at the Grey Mare on Grane Road. Please let Elaine know if you plan to attend.

• Encounter is an event for men, being organized on Sunday 22nd November at 6:30pm at St Mary’s, Rawtenstall. This is to be a pilot meeting for a potential new group. It is stressed that this is NOT “RENEW FOR MEN” !!!

• 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. The theme is God is in this Place. 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 27th October.

•  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

 

•   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 ! 

  • 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:
Dates for this year’s PCC Meetings :
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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