ST CHAD’S AND ST MARY IN THE BAUM

SERVICES, at Rochdale’s two town centre Anglican churches.

St Chad’s – Rochdale Parish Church lunchtime concert, featuring the prize-winning Lowry Brass Quintet, at noon. £5.50, including refreshments from 11.20am. – Champness Hall, Rochdale, speaker Johnathan Conrathe, 7.30pm.

Saturday, March 10 – Free Mother’s Day event from 11am to 1pm.

Sunday: Eden Café open at 9.30am; prayer meeting, 10am; morning service, with speaker Pastor David at 10.30am; Eden Café open for lunch from 12.30pm; park ministry from 1pm; Nepalese service from 1.30pm; Towards Belief series with Elan from 5.30pm.

Peekaboos mother and toddler group from 10am to noon.

Nurture Group, with Tony and Rosemarie, at 7pm; pre-mission taster at Champness Hall, with special guest Johnathan Conrathe, at 7.30pm.

Early morning prayer meeting at 7am; music lessons, with James, 6pm to 7pm.

Breakfast Club, 9.30am; Power Pack, 5pm; 20/Twenty Youth, 7.30pm; Prayer meeting at 8pm. running. For information please visit our website and follow the Lent 2018 link. If your group was cancelled last week, that session will be happening this week. Group leaders will be agreeing to a catch-up session with the participants.

Just for Girls, Holy Trinity School, 7.30pm.

Midweek Holy Communion, 6.30pm.

Choir Practice, St Barnabas,’ 6.30pm.

Holy Trinity Youth Theatre Workshop at Holy Trinity at 7pm.

The Benefice churches will gather together at 10am on

as we celebrate this special day.

You are warmly invited to come along and join us at any of the services or events. For information please visit www.cofe -littleborough.co.uk. Our service schedule for Holy Week and Easter is online. WE are staging a major event in church today (Saturday) and expect lots of ladies to attend our fashion show. There will be huge discounts on ex-high street stock. Clothes will be modelled on the cat-walk. Doors open at 1.30pm for a 2pm start. Tickets, £5, have been selling well, but you can pay on the door. Refreshments will be available. After our 9.30am

tomorrow (Sunday) we have three Holy Baptisms – at 11.30am, 12.30pm and 1.15pm. We are baptising lots of children and welcome offers of assistance from regular worshippers to welcome the baptismal parties. Anyone willing to offer their services can speak to the vicar, the Rev Rachel. On Monday the

will welcome Marian Ball, a regional official of the MU, who will be giving an address, 7pm, all are welcome.

From now until March 18, our

is open for the addition of new members. The forms are at the back of church.

Our continues on Thursdays, 7pm in church. At each session we will watch an episode of Broken and then have a discussion. These are stand-alone sessions so don’t think it’s too late to attend because you might have missed the first two. We are again collecting

for children so donations of eggs will be much appreciated.