Sunday 2nd April Palm Sunday. Holy Communion at 11am. Palm crosses will be distributed.Wednesday 5th April Holy Communion at 7.30pmFriday 7th April Good Friday Good Friday Rite 10.30am at CHRIST CHURCHSunday 9th April Easter Day. Sunrise Service at 7am at the lakeside at BALL GROVEALSO Holy Communion Service at 11am at St Mary's ChurchPlease do come along to one or all of the services. If you haven't been to Church for a while, this might be a good time to come back.You will be very welcome
The Bishop of Burnley has licensed the Rev David Hargreaves as an Associate Priest for our benefice of three churches.David will now work with the Rev Andy across the three churches of St Marys, St Michaels and Christ Church.David is well known to us having conducted a number of services before Andy was appointed, and he lives locally in Foulridge. Before retiring he was a Brigadier in the Royal Signals Regiment, so this is quite a change.For St Marys this means that we will have a priest leading most services although we hope to still have the Music Group once a month. Our regular service time is now 11am on Sundays.
We have a new Rector - Andy Froud. Andy was instituted by the Bishop of Burnley and inducted by the Archdeacon of Burnley at a special service at St Michaels on Monday evening.There was a full church consisting of members of the three churches and many from Clitheroe where Andy was the Rector.Andy now leads the benefice which is the group of three churches in our area - St Mary's Trawden, Christ Church Colne and St Michael's Foulridge. Andy and his family have moved to live at Christ Church vicarage.Bishop Philip gave an uplifting sermon welcoming Andy to his new post and asking the congregation to renew their faith. The Bishop, who has recently been appointed as the next Bishop of Blackburn (the Diocesan Bishop), also repeated his commitment to growing the Church in Lancashire and asked us all to play our part in this.Andy will continue his role as Chaplain to the 6th Form at St Christopher's Accrington, and is also a Canon of Blackburn Cathedral. He is a keen runner, and people may already have seen him around the village and in the shop and library. Do say hello and welcome him if you meet him.
St Mary's raises all of its money from members of the congregation, local people and fund raising events. This money is spent on the costs of a vicar (we share these costs with two other churches), a very small proportion on central diocesan costs such as child protection, and a large amount on maintaining our lovely Victorian church building.None of the money that we raise goes to the central Church of England, which is a question that I'm often asked. We do receive non financial support from the CoE, and are very grateful to have received a one off contribution to help with increased energy costs.The best way that you can support the only remaining church in Trawden is by signing up to the Parish Giving Scheme and donating whatever you can afford every month. If you don't feel able to do this and attend a church service, or visit on a Thursday when the church is open, you can give a contactless donation on the CollecTin located near the entrance doors. Alternatively cash is always welcome either in the glass jar or on the collection plate.We can claim an extra 25% of your donation from the tax man if you use Parish Giving Scheme and are a UK tax payer, but also for contactless and cash donations.Recently we have undertaken major repairs to our roof, replastered some ceilings that were falling down, replaced some rotten windows and removed some trees that were either rotten or causing damage to the church, Further expensive work in the near future is required to our lovely stained glass windows and to repointing to stop some penetrating damp. However we need to raise more money for this work.Please help. Any questions please contact Paul Wilson on 07950 316879 or post@wycoller.com or one of the church wardens.
