ST CHAD’S / ST MARY IN THE BAUM

SERVICES tomorrow, Sunday: 9.30am at St Mary in the Baum: Sung Eucharist. 9.30am at St Chad’s, the Parish Church, Sparrow Hill: Easy church – an informal service for young people and families, with children’s activities. 11am, St Chad’s: Choral Mattins. 3pm, St Chad’s: Rochdale’s Asian Fellowship. 6.30pm, St Chad’s: Choral Evensong.

at St Mary’s 10am: Holy Communion.

at St Mary’s 10am-3pm: British Red Cross, supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

June 27, at St Mary’s 12.30pm: Toad Lane lunchtime concert featuring Margaret Ferguson (soprano) and Jonathan Ellis (piano). Admission £4. Refreshments and lunches from 11.30am.

St Chad’s, 7.30pm: Choir practice, new members welcome.

St Chad’s, 7.30pm: Celebrity concert featuring Tom Hicks, USA (piano). Admission £5.50 including refreshments.

St Chad’s noon: Music at Rochdale Parish Church with Eleanor Hull and Mackenzie Paget (soprano and piano). Music by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Massenet, Faure and Weill. Admission £5.50, including refreshments.

St Chad’s, 3pm: Celebrity concert, featuring Scott Brothers Duo (piano duet). Admission £10, including refreshments. THE weather forecast is good and all is set fair for our Garden Party, today (Saturday) in the grounds of vicarage and church, 1pm to 3pm, all welcome.

Refreshments will be available and there will be music from ‘Junior Blast.’

As our vicar, the Rev Rachel, writes in our June magazine: “Summertime shows us God’s creation at its best. Everything is growing and looking brilliant. So the next time you are out in your garden or park remember the birds. Jesus wants us to take notice of them and be like them.”

In church tomorrow we celebrate the

at our 9.30am Sung Eucharist.

lay assistants, D Owen, A N Other; readers, G Barlow, S Topham; Intercessions, D Owen; sidespeople, P Shrigley, B Kelly; refreshments, Graham, Sandra, Ashley.

All welcome, especially children who can take part in Sunday School.

In August we plan to have a

meeting on three Fridays, 10am to 2pm.

We are asking for ideas about a in the autumn and a Retreat in Lent next year.

At the beginning of September we will be joined by the Rev Anne Gilbert, who will be ordained by the Bishop of Manchester next Sunday, July 1. Anne will serve as assistant curate in the benefice of Dearnley, Smallbridge and Wardle and will take her first service at 9.30am on September 2 at St Andrew’s. Christian Life and Witness Class. 7am – Early Morning Prayer Meeting. 6– 7.30pm – What They Didn’t Teach You At School - a practical life skill course with James. 10am – Breakfast Club. 5pm – Power Pack Kids Club. 7.30pm – Twenty/20 Youth. 9am-2pm Training for Reigning ‘Mission.’ SUNDAY, June 24 – our service will be led by Mr Cyril Whittle. – 3pm, Garden Party at 6 Springfield Avenue, Littleborough. (If wet, will be held indoors at Greenhill Methodist Church). Tickets £5, including afternoon tea.

– Pom Pom Dance Teams. Classes for Teenies aged six to nine years (6.15-7.15pm) and Juniors aged 10 to 12 (7.30-8.30pm. Tel Abi on 07713 086819. – Yoga with Jan, tel 07747 094669. ON Sunday, June 23, at 10.30am the preacher is the Rev Debbie Hopkinson and this is a Communion Service. The speaker at the

on July 5 is Richard Cowley. “In the wake of Shackleton”, a talk and slides of Antarctica. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available at 1.45pm, the talk starts at 2pm. Entry is £1.50. OUR Bible Hour this Sunday will be about Israel in God’s plan. The Bible tells us that Israel is God’s chosen people. The fact that many of the Jews have returned to the land of Israel and formed a nation is an amazing sign of the times – the Bible predicted this more than 2 millennia in advance.

It is still an essential part of God’s plan. Zechariah chapter 14 tells us what will happen in the “day of the LORD”: “In that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east”. Eventually Jerusalem will be the capital of God’s kingdom – Isaiah 2 verse 3 tells us that “the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”

Come and listen on Sunday, June 24, 4.30pm, at the Christadelphian Hall, 310 Yorkshire Street. Our will held in the same place, on “Jesus in the Psalms – Psalm 8”.