Hello to you all,

I hope you are either enjoying the hot weather as much as I am or finding ways to keep cool. As is the case most summers the church becomes the coolest place to be! I hope those of you who have returned to school this week, or have someone in your household who has, have had a good start to the new year and that anyone joining new schools is beginning to find their way and settle a little bit.

As many people’s summer break comes to an end we have also now come to the end of our summer sermon series. What a great five weeks it has been! Between our sermons on Sundays and our many, many midweek opportunities, we have seen so many of our church community engage with what church is all about in so many different ways. From our energetic Teddy Bears Picnic to begin it all until our peaceful centering prayer on Wednesday night it has been a rich time of socialising, reflecting, studying, praying and worshipping together as a community. We hope that you have enjoyed something different over the last few weeks and we look forward to continuing with more of all the things you loved the most!

This coming Sunday we have our usual 8:30 Holy Communion as well as our monthly Café Church at 10:30 where we will be joined by Helen Howarth from Safe Families. Helen will be telling us more about the amazing work they do as well as how we can get involved as we think about how we can be the hands, feet and heart of Jesus in our community. Come along to find out more, it would be great to see you at either service. All are welcome at St Martin’s!

Grace & peace,

Rev. Phil