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All the materials for worship and news from Sunnyside are included in our newsletter so please ensure to read to the end!

Rachel Hamilton is not working next week. We pray that she has a restful time and returns refreshed on Monday 8th March.
Staff are working from home during the lockdown including our office administrator.
Can you help? Sharon needs lots of small pots with lids to put paint in for the April Messy Church bags. Do you have any old camera film pots, clean spice jars or similar that you could donate? Contact Sharon on sharon@sunnysidechurch.org.uk if you think you can help.
The home page of our website has dedicated places for prayer and services clearly on the front page. The services page has the link for our Sunday service. Materials for Wednesday service are also on the services page - scroll down to the bottom to find them.
please note the new time of our online service which has moved to 10.30am (chat from 10.15) so we can have an in person service in church at 9am.

Lent 2021

'Everything looks different in this world when seen through the lens of the cross.'

During Lent we are going to be looking at what the cross tells us about different aspects of life and faith. We have a sermon series on the cross, for more information click here.

We are also reading a Lent book with the opportunity to discuss it on zoom on Sunday evenings.

For more information on the book we're going to be reading and the meeting dates click here.

Zoom meeting link | 28 February | 6pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82864813517?pwd=alk3dTczdml4VWZhc1FSZUVYL3BaUT09
Meeting ID: 828 6481 3517
Passcode: 799379

The Church of England's Lent resources theme for 2021#Live Lent: God's Story, Our Story. Daily Bible readings and reflections will help us to explore God’s story and the impact this has made on our story. It will also give us ideas and encouragement on how to make telling these stories to others a natural part of our lives.

Click on the Church of England website below for information on downloading the app or signing up for daily reflections
Church of England Live Lent 2021

If you are passing Sunnyside on your daily walk, why not pop in through the gates and have a walk round the churchyard. Have a look at our prayer posts and take time to pause and pray. Read on to find out more.

Saturday 6 March | 3.30pm
Flowers, clay bugs, calendars and more! I wonder what the theme for Messy Church will be on Saturday. Read on to find out how you can get involved.

Now available!
Patrick has put together a playlist of some of the songs we sing at Sunnyside, as well as some older and newer worship songs too. Click the link to find out more

Saturday 13th March
Save the date for our next church social coming up on Saturday 13th March. More information will be included in our next newsletter.

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is the group of elected members who help lead the church and support our mission to share the love of Jesus with our community. Each time it meets, the PCC discusses important matters like our activities, finances and safeguarding as well as considering recommendations by the different action groups.

Summary of the last meeting: when it met on 1st February, the PCC's main discussions focussed on our finances and the investigation by the Maintenance Action Group into the potential for a more environmentally friendly heating system. The PCC agreed that the planned stewardship campaign should be postponed due to ongoing Covid restrictions and that a one of appeal should be made at the Annual Meeting. The PCC also asked the Maintenance Action Group to continue their investigations.

Members of the church are entitled to read the minutes of PCC meetings. Please apply to the church office to do so.

To find out more about the PCC and Action Groups click below.

All the information you need about our prayer meetings is now in place on the home page of our website. We hope that this will make it easier for you and others to find the information.

Daily at 6pm

The Archbishop of Canterbury has invited us all to join him in praying at 6pm each day. Read on to find out more.

An inspiring Community Cafe took place on Saturday 20th February with Bex talking about her work with the LOVED centre in Uganda, Read on to see Katie Randall- Stratton's summary of that conversation.

PLEASE NOTE

As the days are now lighter for longer we have returned to opening the church for private prayer on Fridays from 3pm - 5pm.

THIS WEEK

We are praying for Bank Mill Lane and Bullbeggars Lane.
Due to current lockdown restrictions we are not meeting on Wednesday mornings but encourage you to pray for our roads from home or as part of your daily exercise.

For more information please email Charis Geoghegan

We're launching a Youth drop-in time. Thursday at 4.30 lasting about an hour, starting on zoom - this is a time for young people to relax and chill after a day of school.
Please email Luke for zoom details.

Now live!
All the information you need about our services and links to online services and materials is now all in the one place on the home page of our website. We hope that this will make it easier for you and others to find the information.

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