Chester Cursillo
Please pray for the staff and participants Chester Cursillo No 59, 24th to 27th October at Foxhill, as they withdraw from daily routines and wait with expectation on the Lord. Moyra Cryer
Service of Commemoration and Light
Please add the names of those you wish to remember at this Service to the list that’s in the Tower until Thursday 31st October. Please write names carefully so there’s no doubt about them!
Mothers Union Provincial Service
Mothers’ Union members wishing to go to the Provincial Service in Leeds Minster on Thursday 7th November please let Jill Fairhurst 0161 439 3126 know as soon as possible, as numbers are required for seating and travel arrangements.
Feast of Ss Simon & Jude AA
Our Eucharist at 7:30pm on Tuesday 29th October, celebrating the Feast of Ss Simon & Jude AA, will include the use of incense. If you’re someone who finds the use of incense enhances your worship experience, or you’d like to try it and see, this service is for you.
Taste of Tanzania
Delicious supper with fun, games, prizes. Sat 2nd Nov, church hall, 6:30 for 7:00pm. Selection of Tanzanian stews and mild curries, with side dishes. Vegetarian options. Please come to this fund-raiser for projects in Newala. To assist catering please sign up asap on sheet on hall lobby noticeboard. £12 adults, £5 under-18; pre-pay or at door. Raffle prizes welcome. Further info Hamida Adkins 0161 485 4566, Janet Ketteringham.
Concert by Living Water Ministries
Deanwater Hotel, SK7 1RJ. Thursday 21st November, a Bramhall Christian Viewpoint event. LWM is an international group from Lighthouse Christian Centre, Eccles that brings hope and life-transforming love through song in Gospel outreach events in a wide variety of venues including theatres, prisons, homeless shelters, and churches. This promises to be a popular event, so contact Sheila Salden 0161 440 9794 asap to book a place (£10). Please note there is no meal at this event.
Thank you –
> to Betty Scott for her time and effort as a member of the Sunday Morning Coffee rota, from which she’s now retiring.
> from Dianne Goodwin : To all my friends at St Michaels, a great big Thank You! You have been so wonderfully supportive in your Prayers, and in contacting me, following my accident, and I am truly grateful. Your support has been a great comfort to me, and I am pleased to report that yesterday the Hospital told me I am making good progress. Love, Dianne
> to everyone who baked for and patronised the cake stall last Sunday. We raised £220.25 for the work of the Church in Newala. Jill Fairhurst
Green Tips : Go for bulk
If you have the means to buy, transport (or you could have delivered), and store consumable items in bulk, do so. It cuts down on energy use as there are less trips to supply and obtain; and (often) has less packaging over-all – so less materials (often single-use and/or plastic) used. Oh yes – and you usually save money, too.
Not paid for by “the church”
I’d like to say a big thank you to all Flower Club members for their hard work in making the church look so amazing for our Patronal Festival. I’d like to add that the flowers were – as always - bought out of Flower Club funds; St M’s doesn’t pay for any flowers, except when they’re given to someone for a special occasion. We raise our money from weddings, when a small amount is added to the couple’s bill. If the weekly flowers at the altars are in memory of a loved one, the requestor pays the Flower Club £15 minimum. If there’s no request for flowers on a particular week the Flower Club member on our rota pays for the flowers. I hope this makes everything clear, should anyone think St M’s is funding the flowers. Val Huxley
New Website for St M’s
www.bramhall.church. Thank you to Mike Holmes and Phil Ketteringham who have worked hard over a number of years to build and maintain our previous Website. Their technical knowledge is a wonderful gift to St M’s. If you have any thoughts about anything that is missing from the new Website please let me know. Revd Calum
Changing e-mails
During wk/comm 11th November we’ll be upgrading some of our IT systems. This will mean anyone with a bramhall.church e-mail may be offline for a few days, and if you e-mail them that week your message might get lost. If you need to contact the Office, Vicar, Churchwardens, etc that week try another method – ‘phone, letter, visit, carrier pigeon (or bat) .....