E-Newsletter St Mary's & St Michael's Parish of Shalford & Peasmarsh Week beginning 2nd August
Dear friends,
Just a short message this week to include more simple links directly from St Mary's Website homepage here for worshipping together online via St Mary's Zoom or St Mary's Youtube Channel - on Wednesdays and Sundays. The same links should work for every Sunday and Wednesday from now on....hopefully! (except for the last 2 weeks in August when St Mary's Online will be off on a littlemini summer break - we'll be off-line for Facebook daily prayers and complines, and Zoom/Youtube Sunday and Wednesday worship in last 2 weeks of August).
This Sunday, the amazing Feeding of the Five Thousand gospel story is read by the amazing Joan, in her 100th year. Thank you Joan! Within our eucharist service we'll explore and experience together: Take, Bless, Break, Give. And this Sunday we will hopefully start to include a blend of recordings within our hybrid worship at home and in person together - if you'd like to participate in reading or any other way in worship, please get in touch (the recording camera loves to travel!)
Our joining together live as one worshipping community continues as 3 in 1 ways to worship together! In person with face masks in St Mary’s church building 9.30am, or online at home via St Mary’s zoom, or St Mary's youtube. If you are worshipping from home and are able, and particularly if you are local, do worship live at 9.30am via St Mary's Zoom (click link on website) - you can remain invisible if you wish to other zoomers! and even drop in or out ½ way through! It's a chance to join, and participate via the written chat function, together with others as a worshipping community, and at the end of the service just stay on to chat to others also at home or in the church building. For those further afield or unable to join live, St Mary’s Youtube Channel is live-streaming every Sunday and Wednesday - just go to St Mary's Youtube Channel page or via St Mary's website link, and hopefully you can join live or later there.
Latest news: Shalford's Mental Health Zoom discussion group is set to run this autumn - please get in touch if you're potentially interested, and please spread the word - older adults and young adults groups on offer. Contact Jill Lawrence for further info. See Saskia's great video below....
More news next week, and this week and next and all to come..........
May God, who clothes the lilies and feeds the birds of the sky
who leads the lambs to pasture and the deer to water
who multiplied loaves and fishes and changed water into wine
lead us, feed us, multiply us
and change us to reflect the glory of our Creator
Amen
Bishop Jo’s sermon this week..... ‘An invitation to sit down’
Saskia introduces our new Sanctuary Mental Health discussion/mutual support small
zoom groups for all ages...........do join in and say as much or as little as you like (the course uses films and other material to prompt discussion - it's great!)
St Mary's Youtube Channel
Join together for Worship, Prayer & Reflection at St Mary's Church, Shalford - Online & Off Join the same service together as one inclusive St Mary's worshipping community online and off, worshipping together in the way that works best for you
Sunday Worship at St Mary's Sundays 9.30am Weekly: Service of Holy Communion See St Mary's website homepage for links to join online via Zoom or Youtube
Midweek Wednesday Worship at St Mary's Wednesdays 12 noon Weekly: Service of Holy Communion See St Mary's website homepage for links to join online via Zoom or Youtube
Weekday Daily Prayers & Contemplative Worship
Online Monday to Fridays: Mondays - Thursdays: 8.30am Prayers to Go: short daily morning prayers to fit into your day
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9pm Contemplative Compline or Night Prayer
Fridays: 8.30am A Morning Prayer service with longer reflection
all can be found on......
St Mary's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StMarysShalford
St Mary's Little Library
Sally is hoping to open a St Mary's 'branch' of her successful outdoor, free to take & donate, book library (first branch is in Somersbury Way). If you have a wooden cupboard, or you're a carpenter/crafty wood worker, and able to donate/make a cupboard such as this to stand somewhere in St Mary's churchyard for all passers by, please get in touch with Sally Schupke
News Update: St Mary's Churchyard Wall Repair
Works will begin on c. 3rd August and likely to continue for up to 16 weeks, with road lane closure for a short time within this. Please be sure not to interrupt the stonemasons as they work, or get too close to the works any other time for health and safety reasons. The works are being paid for and managed through Shalford Parish Council, but if you have any questions or concerns along the way do contact Sally, Churchwarden, or Rev Sarah, and they'll pass messages on to SPC.
Two great venues - open for all. Please spread the word far and wide that both St Mary's Church Shalford and St Michael's Village Hall Peasmarsh, are open for bookings again for the coming months
GIVING TO ST MARY'S
Please just click on the big blue button below (or the one on St Mary's website) if you would like to donate an offering to St Mary's church - life, ministry, serving community. The buttons will take you directly to our Shalford Parish church Justgiving site for one-off or regular online donations, where we can also receive gift aid. If you would like to discuss setting up regular giving through direct debit and the Parish Giving Scheme, please contact Ann Thomas. Thank you so much for your support at this difficult time.
St Mary's Shalford Parish Daily Morning Prayer and Night Prayer
Please join in short St Mary's at Home parish prayers
- 10-15 mins prayer & reflection -
join any time you wish live (or recorded if you view later)
via Facebook Live
St Mary's Morning Prayer NOW LIVE AT 8.30AM every weekday
(led by Sarah on Mon, Tues & Thurs; by Katrina on Weds; by Angela on Fri) St Mary's Night Prayer or Compline every Tuesday & Thursday 9pm.
