Maghull: St Peter

God, our refuge and strength, bring near the day when wars shall cease and poverty and pain shall end, that earth may know the peace of heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

More big 'thank yous' this week from:

All Saints New Horizons Project clothing collection Huge thanks to everyone who gave hats, scarves, gloves, jumpers, trousers, coats and many more items besides, to this year's collection. My Fiesta was packed to the roof with more than thirty bags when I made my way to All Saints on Sheil Road on Wednesday 29th October. Helen, the Community Pastor, was absolutely delighted with all your generous donations. Every item given will find its way to families and individuals in need as the weather turns colder. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Claire Sherman

Aintree University Hospital (Fazakerley!!!) Chaplaincy and Woodlands Hospice We’ve received the lovely thank you messages below from the Hospital Chaplaincy and Woodlands Hospice for the knitted and crocheted flowers donated after being used in the display for St Andrew’s 145th Anniversary and for the blankets donated as well:

Dear Pat, Thank you so much for your recent donation of knitted & crocheted blankets for our patients who are at the end of their lives. Please pass on our sincere thanks to the Maghull & Melling Prayer Shawl Ministry & Community Craft & Chat members. Without the tireless knitting & crocheting of your team & many others we would not be able to offer such wonderful items to our patients and their relatives. With much thanks, prayer & blessings to you all Tracie (on behalf of the Chaplaincy & SWAN team)

Dear Maghull and Melling Craft and Chat I am writing to you today to express my sincere gratitude for your kindness and generosity in donating the knitted and crocheted flowers to Woodlands Hospice.which have been passed to The Patient and Family Services Team to be placed on our Woodlands Community Flower wall. It is such a privilege for the team to work with patients and their families and make the hospice a little more homely for them Your generosity will make such a difference to patients and families who continue to access the hospice and are known to The Patient and Family Service Team. Kind regards Elaine Pugh Head of Patient and Family Services

Thank you so much to all involved in supporting both the All Saints New Horizons Project and Hospital & Hospice donations - it really is so valuable and so appreciated!

SERVICES

Sunday 9th November Remembrance Sunday St Andrews: 10.00 am Remembrance Service in church and Youth & Children’s Service in the Parish Hall across the road before both services come together at the war memorial at the lychgate for the Act of Remembrance. St Thomas: 10.00am Remembrance Service followed by the Act of Remembrance at the lychgate St James: 10.50 am Remembrance Service (early start to allow for the Act of Remembrance to include the 11am silence) St Peters: 10.50 am Remembrance Service (early start to allow for the Act of Remembrance to include the 11am silence) St Peter’s: 4.00 pm Church 4 All

Wednesday 12th November St Andrew’s: 10.30am Team Holy Communion Service (likely to be in church hall due to ongoing heating situation)

St James: 7.30 pm Monthly prayer and worship - see details below

SUNDAY 16th November :

St Andrew's : 10.00 am Holy Communion (likely to be in church hall due to ongoing heating situation) AND 12 midday Baptism

St James' : 11.15 am Holy Communion

St Peter's : 11.15 Holy Communion AND 4.00 pm Church for All

Bible Readings Sunday 9th November Remembrance Sunday, preachers choice Sunday 16th November 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19 Sunday 23rd November Team service readings tbc Sunday 30th November Advent Sunday Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44

TEAM PRAYERS

Team Prayers will now be taking place ahead of our monthly team service on the 4th Sunday of each month at whichever church is hosting that month’s service, at 9.45am. So the next one will be at St Peter's on Sunday 23rd November at 9.45am . All welcome.

We’re also going to be intentional now about having a short informal time of prayer at each church before the Sunday services each week - so the person leading the service will pray with others who are there for 10 mins or so half an hour before the start of the service, so 9.40 ahead of 10am services and 10.55 ahead of 11.15am services. Everyone is very welcome to join in with this. St James usually has a time of individual prayer and reflection helped by two worship songs from about 5 minutes before the actual start of the service.

News

St Andrew’s Heating Just a quick note to say that while efforts to get everything needed in place to replace our broken boiler continue and the colder weather really starts to kick in now, services are going to temporarily move into the church hall which can be heated still! We will still have the Remembrance Sunday service in church for practical reasons due to numbers etc., and hope that the numbers gathering will help generate some warmth!! We are working hard to get the boiler replaced and situation resolved as soon as we possibly can.

Children’s Society Collection Boxes For those at St Andrew’s with these, its the time of year to bring them in to church to give to Jim Entwistle. Thank you.

Stamps

A request from St Thomas’ for your used stamps, as they are collecting them to support training guide dogs. Please do pass any you have in to your church, and the clergy will ensure they get to St Thomas’. Thank you.

Request for Wool Donations - also stuffing material for toys & pillows

Wool donations for our craft and chat group wld be very gratefully received! Whether whole or part balls of wool, any colour etc. Also, at the moment, donations of stuffing material for toys & pillows would be much appreciated. If you are able to drop off to the craft & chat group between 12.30 and 2pm on Thursdays at St James’ Church Green Lane, that would be great, but collection can easily be arranged. Please contact Pat Dunbar by text message on 07795147109 or email at patcol@blueyonder.co.uk Thank you!

WEEKLY EVENTS

Craft and Chat : every Thursday 12.30pm until 2pm at St James in the fellowship room. Knitting, crocheting or any craft, you are assured of a very warm welcome so please do come and join us. Pat

Hot lunch, tea and cakes every Thursday afterno on at Melling Tithebarn ……12.00pm to 2.00pm. A plate for donations will be available. You are assured of a very warm welcome so please do come and join us.

MONTHLY EVENTS

St Peter's Tea and Scones : everyone is welcome to join us for tea and scones on the first Friday in every month from 2pm-3pm. The next one is on Friday 5th December . Expect lots of friendly chats and live music by our resident Michael with his keyboard.

Prayer & Worship - monthly get together Each month we are going to be gathering for a time of prayer & worship together at St James Church, Green Lane. This will be a relaxed and informal time, but led and with songs, reflection on passages of scripture, pointers / themes for prayer etc. This is following on from the Prayer Course that a number of us did through Lent & Easter time, but is absolutely open to everyone, not just those who came to that course. The next of these will be on Wednesday 12th November, 7.30pm and we would be delighted to see you there. Please do speak to Rev. Simon or Claire Sherman for any further information.

Bereavement Support: at St Andrew’s Church. Further enquiries, and if there are any particular requests for bereavement support, from anywhere across our 4 parishes, please contact St Andrew’s Parish Office 0151 531 8972.

Other notices

Bulletin items for inclusion Please send an email to revsimonelliott76@gmail.com stating ‘for bulletin’ in the email ‘subject’ box / email title by midday Thursday of the week you’d like items included.

Foodbank : the Foodbank is based at St George's United Reformed Church on Northway opposite Iceland, on Tuesdays 10.00am-12.00 noon .

Tins, packet foods and toiletries are always useful. They will gratefully receive donations from 10-12 on Tuesdays at St George’s URC on Northway (easiest access is via the car park on Larchwood Avenue). Alternatively please do drop any donations off before Tuesday on the vicarage doorstep at 23 Green Link. Thank you.

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Revd. Ian Hopkins 07914 505437 or ianfee100@gmail.com

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