ST LUKE’S, DEEPLISH
ST Luke’s Church, Deeplish, will hold an Advent Holy Communion service tomorrow (Sunday) at 10am officiated by Rev Anne Gilbert.
The service is followed by tea, coffee and biscuits and a chance to chat.
Monday: Bible Study - 10.30am in the church side room.
We will be starting our Advent course.
This is open to anyone who wants to find out more about the Bible in a friendly, informal setting.
Wednesday: 11am - Morning Praise service in the side room of church led by the Rev Pam Parr.
Thursday: Ladies only Zumba at 10am.
It costs £3 and you need to book, please contact catherine.szymanskyj2@ yourtrustrochdale.com or ring 07814 712 271.
We are a friendly group and have space for new members.
Saturday, December 2: we will be manning a stall at the Christmas fayre at St Chad’s Church.
Please come along and support us.
We look forward to welcoming our regular members and anyone who would like to join our very friendly, caring congregation.
ST CHAD’S AND ST MARY IN THE BAUM
ST Chad’s, on Sparrow Hill, overlooking the town centre, has been Rochdale’s Parish Church for over 800 years.
Together with our sister church, St Mary in the Baum, we provide mainly traditional forms of Anglican worship and you are warmly welcome to join us.
Children’s activities are available during Sunday morning services and refreshments are served afterwards.
Today (Saturday), to mark the 90th anniversary of Holodomor, a Requiem Service and Laying of Wreaths is at the Rochdale Memorial Gardens at
1pm, followed by a
Service of Remembrance at St Chad’s at 3pm.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the Feast of Christ the King, which falls on the Sunday next before Advent.
‘The year that begins with the hope of the coming Messiah ends with the proclamation of his universal sovereignty.’
The Eucharist, with hymns, is at St Mary’s at
9.15am.
Choral Eucharist is at St Chad’s at 11.15am, when the anthem is ‘The King of Love,’ a traditional Irish melody arranged by Edward Bairstow.
The choir will also sing selected verses from Psalm 72.
The celebrant and preacher at both services is Canon Roger Hill.
Each Monday at St Mary’s, the Red Cross provides help for refugees from 10am until 2pm.
Refreshments are available and admission is free.
On Wednesday, at St Mary’s at 12.30pm, the Toad Lane Lunchtime Concert features Slava Sidorenko’s piano class from Chethams School of Music. Admission is £6.
On Thursday, Morning Prayer is at St Chad’s at 10am.
On Saturday, December 2, St Chad’s Christmas fayre is being held in church from 11am until 2pm.
There are raffles, tombolas, cakes and bakes, books and CDS, bric-a-brac, crafts, refreshments and more. Admission is free.
Do come and enjoy yourself at this important fundraising event.
Sunday next, December 3, is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the Church calendar and of a four-week period of preparation for the birth of Christ.
The Eucharist, with hymns, is at St Mary’s at
9.15am.
Choral Eucharist is at St Chad’s at 11.15am.
The celebrant and preacher at both services is the vicar, the Rev Anne Gilbert.
ST MARY’S, BALDERSTONE
IS your breakfast usually a cup of coffee and slice of toast (if you’re lucky) as
you rush around trying to start your day?
Why not try a different start this morning?
Our women’s breakfast takes place in the parish room between 9am and
10.30am. We’d love for you to join us.
There will also be a short talk on ‘waiting’ by Kathryn Mason.
All women welcome, so if you’re already feeling overwhelmed with planning and preparations why not join us for a breakfast and take a little while just to think about what it is that we are all rushing towards with so much intent.
This will be our last women’s breakfast before Christmas.
Tomorrow our morning service starts at 10.30am.
We’ll be finishing up our sermon series in Galatians, looking at chapter six, verses one to 18 - Doing Good To All.
Children’s groups will be available for ages four to 11.
Whether it’s your first time or you are part of the family, we’d love to welcome you!
In the evening we’ll be gathering for prayer, in the parish room, 6.30pm 7.30pm.
This is a relaxed space, an opportunity to take time out, to rest in God’s presence, and to be strengthened in prayer.
SMURFS (St Mary’s Under Fives) meets on Tuesday afternoon
1.30pm - 3pm in the parish room.
It costs £1 for one adult with child and an extra 30p each for extra children.
This week, in craft corner, we’ll be thinking about the Nativity while making Christmas cards.
We have a selection of small group midweek Bible studies.
Wednesday 10am in the church lounge
Wednesday 7.30pm at the home of a group member.
Thursday evening,
7.20pm - 9pm, Zoom only.
For further information or prayer requests, please get in touch by email stmarysbalderstone@ gmail.com or see our Facebook page, www. facebook.com/ saintmarysbalderstone
THE BENEFICE OF LITTLEBOROUGH
SERVICES Sunday Christ the King.
9am, Holy Communion at St. Barnabas,’ Shore.
10.15am, Holy Communion at Holy Trinity.
11.30am, St James, Calderbrook.
Saturday, December 9: Breakfast with Santa at St James, Calderbrook.
(Tickets and details available soon).
Thursday, December 14 at 7.30pm. St Barnabas, Shore. ‘A Winter Concert’ with Greater Manchester Police Male Voice Choir.
There will be a licensed bar and a raffle.
Tickets: Adults £8, under-14s £5.
The tickets will be available in our churches, www.cofe-littleborough. co.uk (Ticket shop).
Email: theatre.tickets@ cofe-littleborough.co.uk , or call Katy (evenings only) 07947 804 117.
We are also on Facebook: The Benefice of Littleborough. Twitter at: @cofelittleborough1 and 01706 375 322.
ST ANDREW’S, DEARNLEY
NEWS of two separate Family Services which are coming up soon.
There is the restart of an existing one on Wednesday at 4pm, after our primary school has finished and the start of a brand new one at 11.15am on Sunday, December 3, this one to be held on the first Sunday of each month.
We have had the Wednesday afternoon Family Service previously, but for various reasons it has been a non-starter recently and we are delighted to announce
that it will be back on Wednesday and each subsequent Wednesday until school breaks up for Christmas.
Obviously, ALL are welcome, but this service is specifically aimed at the children of our primary school and parents who may be picking them up from school and wish to come straight to church where refreshments will be available from about
3.45pm.
The Rev Rachel has a grandson of her own and is well aware that children need a different sort of service to keep them interested and attentive as compared to older people.
The same applies to the Family Service at 11.15am on the first Sunday of each month, starting tomorrow week.
More singing, less doctrine is one way to describe that service, which will be specially designed for children and their parents who might understandably find it difficult to get everyone ready in time to get to church on a
Sunday morning for our Sung Eucharist at
9.30am.
We will have refreshments, of course, as is usual after the
9.30am service and families and children arriving early for 11.15am
can have tea or coffee and biscuits beforehand.
Equally, we hope people who have been to the 9.30am Sung
Eucharist will take refreshment and perhaps stay on for the Family Service, if only to compare the difference.
Yesterday (Friday) we had our annual Autumn Fair in church, held this year, as an experiment, on Friday instead of
Saturday, as has always been the norm.
We will let you know next week how we went on.
We were open from
2pm to 6pm, and entry was FREE. You could come and go as you pleased.
There were lots of stalls, refreshments were available and entertainment was provided periodically by our primary school band and by the Littleborough U3A Choir.
Tomorrow, of course, is the last Sunday before Advent.
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat!
Will you put a penny in the old man’s hat or will you spend a few quid to support your church in these difficult times?
Please continue to bring in items for the food bank, including Christmas selection boxes for children.