The Woodland Trust, Smithills Estate A big thank you to everyone who donated to the Harvest Collection this year. A total of £440 has been sent to the Woodland Trust to support the work in progress at the Smithills Estate. And thank you to all those who volunteered to plant...
Wednesday 4th December at 2.00pm The Open Church on Wednesday 4th December will have the theme of “Homelessness”. Prayer packs will be available if you wish, along with music and refreshments alongside prayer slots by the clergy every 20mins. Please come along and join us. The Wednesdays will continue...
The Church of England’s Christmas message this year is “Follow the Star”. “Christmas is a time for generosity. The gifts we give do not have to be expensive or extravagant – sometimes the gift of time spent with a neighbour or a smile at someone we see on the...
TOY SERVICE – Advent Sunday 1st December Our gifts for children at Christmas will again be donated to the NSPCC, and to the FortAlice home for families at risk. Toys should be new and unwrapped (so the organisers at NSPCC and Fortalice know what it is). Wrapping paper is also...
As our walks now always seem to start from our lunch destination we thought we should keep up the tradition. Our meeting point this month was the car park of The Balcarres Arms at Haigh. Everyone arrived wearing full waterproofs due to the weather earlier in the morning being dreadful....
TOY SERVICE – Advent Sunday 1st December Our gifts for children at Christmas will again be donated to the NSPCC, and to the FortAlice home for families at risk. Toys should be new and unwrapped (so the organisers at NSPCC and Fortalice know what it is). Wrapping paper is also...
2.00pm – Assemble at Blackrod Cemetery for Act of Remembrance. Service at the Blackrod Cenotaph, and Laying of Wreaths followed by procession to St Katharine’s Church 3.00pm Service of Remembrance at St Katharine’s. Followed by refreshments.
Wednesday 13th November at 2.00pm Wednesday 9th October saw the first monthly afternoon slot for the church to be open for prayer. October was around ‘Freedom Day’ focusing on modern day slavery and human trafficking. Wednesday 13th November has a theme of ‘Remembrance’ and we will be praying for those...
Christmas Fair at St Katharine’s Saturday 23rd November 2019 10am to 1pm Lots of Stalls – Gifts – Cards Jewellery – Crafts – Cakes – Jarbola Bulbs & Grave Pots – Tombola Toys – Mulled Wine & Gaelic Coffee Something for Everyone! REFRESHMENTS Father Christmas will be arriving about...
You may have had a chance to read my clergy letter in July’s church magazine. This article is a follow up to it: More than 200 years after the abolition of the slave trade there are still an estimated 40.3 million men, women and children trapped in modern slavery,...
