This year again our Churches are pleased to be able to host our HARVEST LUNCH at Mere & Tabley Community Club on Sunday October 5th 2025—12.30 for 1pm Tickets £25 Donations for the raffle would be most appreciated Please contact Lyn Greenway 01565 733680 to book your place and let us know of any dietary needs. Please note we do need to hear from you by September 26th, as numbers are limited and we need to confirm with our caterers. We do hope you will be able to join us for this happy occasion.
Dear Friends Well summer seems to be over with a real bang – well a huge downpour of rain over the last few days. Vanessa is being allowed to stay with the group of Churches so that she can gain more experience in leading ministry as she goes forward with her exploration of what God is calling her to do. Many of you have been asking about what exactly Vanessa is doing, and the simple answer is that she is gaining experience in what it is like to be a Priest, so that she can fully understand what the role entails before she, and God, decide if that is the path that she should take. But this does also ask the larger question, which is: Do you have a vocation?? Do you feel called to lead worship? Do you feel called to help with visiting the housebound around our lovely four churches? Perhaps you feel that you are called to become a Priest? If so then your calling is something that needs to be explored and cherished, so do come along and have a word with me and I can put you in touch with people in the Diocese who can guide and direct your path to enable you to fulfil your vocation. The church at the moment is in real need of new ministers, both Priests and lay leaders as well, and the situation seems to look as though it will only get worse in the future, unless we as a community do something about it now. In the next 5 year or so, about half of the current clergy (including myself) will retire, and the question is who will then take over? So please, if you could, pray for new leaders to emerge in our communi ties to fulfil Gods calling to witness to His people here in Chester Diocese then that would be a fantastic help- I firmly believe in the power of prayer. But we also need to be able to hear God’s words as well, to be able to hear and understand his calling. Sometimes people think that God can not possibly be calling them to serve his church – it took me 14 ½ years to answer my calling, but God does keep on prodding us over the years to do his work, and eventually his Will will be done, and we will be drawn by that invisible line to serve God as he wants us to. I am just starting to look at planning the diary for 2026 so that everybody within our churches, and our wider communities will know exactly what we are doing, where we are doing it and when we are doing it. So please let me know by the end of October if your church is planning any event during 2026 so that we can include it in the diary. ie when is your fete? Patronal festival? Harvest Sunday? Remembrance day events? Pancake Suppers? any concerts which you are planning? Contd/…. 14 ….B/f Fundraising events? etc. etc. This does not mean that we cannot have extra events slotted into the year later on, but then at least you would know if your planned event clashed with something else in the calendar. If you don’t let me know then I cannot include it in the diary. I always seem to struggle with this time of year, the summer is over, but Winter is still not with us. We alternate between lovely sunny days and dull, dank autumnal days. We still can’t put away the summer clothes and switch over to the winter ones as some days are so warm. A time of change is upon the world and change is never an easy thing to deal with. Change is never easy, but it does give us the opportunity to try some thing new, and sometimes we can be pleasantly surprised, and other times confirmed in our doubt. However, if you have any ideas about what you would like to see happen around the four churches then please, please, please let me know. We can then have a discussion and see where your ideas might lead us. I/we will never be able to please everybody – that is simply impossible, but I will listen and try and hear what you are concerned about and then try and come to a balance that will enable us to go forward as we strive to undertake God’s work here in our four churches. Yours in Christ Robert
Coffee and Chat 10.30 - 12.00Just drop in or stay longer. Wednesday 8th October at St Paul’s Church For further information, contact Judy Hancock : 01565 733246 or email annhancock60@hotmail.com
St. Mary’sSt.Mary’s Burial of Ashes 30th August 2025 Jean Skelhorn aged 63 Ronald Skelhorn aged 66 13th September 2025 Helen Margaret Harrison aged 93 Baptism 7th September 2025 Bronte Winter Dennison
