ST CHAD’S / ST MARY IN THE BAUM

TODAY at St Chad’s from 2.30pm to 4.30pm: Altar Guild Heritage Weekend afternoon tea. Tickets £5 (telephone 358442). - Today, Saturday, September 8, 2pm-4pm. Over 800 years of fascinating history. tomorrow, Sunday, September 9, at Rochdale’s two town THIS Saturday we will have a stall at the Wardle Village Fair, to be held on the Rec from 11am-3pm.

Come along and have a go on our bottle stall, only £1 and everyone’s a winner.

Also we will have a gazebo where you might like to have a quiet moment and perhaps meet up with Rev Rachel and Rev Ruth. Look out for Littleborough Churches Together Church trail leaflet!

This Sunday our THE major project to replace the floor in the parish room at the back of church is now well under way, so access to church tomorrow will be via the South door. That’s to the right of the building at the top of the pathway leading to the main door.

For the next few weeks the parish room will be closed off, but the groups who use it regularly will meet in church instead, access via the South door.

We will still have refreshments after the 9.30am Sung Eucharist on Sundays but, starting tomorrow, we will gather in the area of the south aisle and make the best we can of a less-thanideal yet unavoidable situation.

Following an excellent, enjoyable and at times revealing last Monday by Peter Shrigley, about his working lifetime in the NHS, our branch of the Mothers’ Union will stage another function of note next Saturday, September 15. The MU will host a

between 10am and noon with all proceeds going to families and children who are in need of a break away, but who are unable to have one without assistance.

The MU is keen for as much support as they can muster for this very worthwhile cause. Our annual

is on Sunday, September 30, at 9.30am when we are asking parishioners to bring in donations of food and money for the underprivileged. Before that, there is a Harvest Service, organised by Littleborough Churches Together, at Holy Trinity, Littleborough, Sunday, September 16, at 5pm.

Our tomorrow: Lay assistants, C Longhurst, J Halstead; readers, G Barlow, S Topham; Intercessions, J Mills; sidespeople, C Giles, R Fuller; refreshments, Carolyn, Pat, Margaret H.