# Following “Thanksgiving” : Please look in the letter-rack for a thank you letter to you following your Thanksgiving Pledge returned in the last two weeks. Also, if you use the weekly envelope system, you’ll find a box of envelopes for the coming twelve months on a table at the back of church. Roy Phillips
# Easter Commemorations : If you would like to give one or more Easter lilies in memory of family member(s) or friend(s), please fill in one of the form at the back of church. Lilies cost £3 each, and the form and money (cash, or cheque made payable to “St Michael & All Angels PCC”) should be placed in the box alongside the forms. All forms / money must be handed in by the end of the morning on Palm Sunday (5th April), please. Val Huxley
# Lent Lectures 2020 : This year’s series is titled “Managing Change & Conflict”, and looks at some of the challenges of living in an uncertain world. In Centrepoint, Wednesdays 2:30 to 4:00pm. No charge, all welcome. This week:
18th March Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality – Revd Katy Thomas
# Quiz Night : Sunday 15th March, Church Hall, 6:00pm. Fund-raising to support the members of St M’s going on next year’s trip to Newala. £10 per person, including food and one drink. Up to eight people per team. For tickets e-mail newala.fundraising@gmail.com or contact the Office; also advise of any dietary requirements.
# Women’s World Day of Prayer Anniversary Coffee Morning in the United Reformed Ch, Robins Ln on Friday 20th March, 10:30am ‘til noon. Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the WWDP in Bramhall. All welcome, not just ladies!
# Mothering Sunday posies will be made in the Lounge on Saturday 21st March from 10:00am to noon. Your help would be much appreciated - please bring scissors and/or secateurs. We’d be grateful for ‘greenery’ – evergreens or well-budding twigs – to go in the posies; please leave any such in the buckets in the hall entrance lobby from Wednesday 18th. Diane Whitehead
# The Barnby Choir’s Spring Concert is in St M’s on Saturday 21st March, 7:30pm. CANCELLED
# Bramhall Christian Viewpoint: Supper Evening Thursday 26th March, 7:30pm at the Deanwater Hotel, SK7 1RJ. Speaker Dr Alex Walter (formerly a Server at St M’s), a Christian GP working with disadvantaged people in Manchester, who last year went with his family to Guinea to work on the Africa Mercy hospital ship. Tickets £14 inc supper – Sheila Salden 0161 440 9794. All welcome to this inspiring evening, do book early.
# Cake Sale – Sunday 29th March, in church hall after both Services. Fund-raising for projects in Newala. Cake donations very welcome – please leave in Office or Kitchen, labelled for Newala Cake Sale, from Thursday 26th; bring before Service on Sunday 29th; or contact Jill Fairhurst 0161 439 3126.
# Mark Hackney’s Licensing as Reader will be at a service in Chester Cathedral at 4:00pm (time tbc) on Saturday 10th October. If you would like to attend, please sign up on the sheet on the hall lobby noticeboard, also indicating whether you’d like to go by coach – if there are sufficient, we’ll hire one.
# Green Tips : Around 150 million tonnes of pieces of plastic are drifting in the world’s oceans; they’re estimated to cause the deaths of one million birds and 100,000 sea mammals p.a.
# Voluntary Site Manager : The Churchwardens and Vicar are looking to appoint a voluntary Site Manager to work with us to develop maintenance plans and a long-term development plan for the church site. Copies of a rôle description for the post on the letter rack. If you’d be interested contact Calum calum.piper@bramhall.church 0161 943 5535 or one of Churchwardens.
# Nomination forms for the PCC and the Deanery Synod are available from the Office office@bramhall.church 0161 439 3989 or from Tricia Munn 0161 439 3583 triciamunn@btinternet.com. Please return completed forms to either.
# Only at St Michael’s : You never know what you’ll find – or why it’s there: The Sacristan was inventorying the Vestries, and so rummaging in places rarely rummaged. Why, in a drawer in the safe, is there a tablet of cello bow rosin? Why locked away? Answers, as they say, on a postcard …