Unfortunately, the Holy Trinity Saturday Workshop Coffee Mornings will close after January 10th 2026, until further notice.While our dedicated teams have done a fantastic job maintaining this service, they now need additional support and have decided it is time to "pass the baton" to a new generation of volunteers.The future of the coffee mornings will be discussed at the PCC meeting on January 12. This initiative provides a vital service to our local community, and it would be a significant loss if it were unable to continue.If you feel you could help or would like to get involved, please contact Jenny in the office.
If you are interested in learning more about this vacancy please visit the Church of England Pathways website:https://www.cofepathways.org/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=9431
"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:19 At this time of Epiphany, as the light of Christ shines in the darkness, we pray for all who we know that have yet to respond to God’s invitation to know Him. We pray for the people of our community who need God’s help in their troubles and ask Him how we can help. We pray for the New Year, that it may bring peace in the troubled areas of the world, peace and reconciliation, instead of war and violence, love and caring instead of domination and distress, giving and selflessness instead of greed and grasping. We pray especially for Ukraine and Russia, Gaza and Israel, but also for all the local violence in Sudan, Yemen, and many other places in the world. At this time of prayer for Christian Unity, we thank God for the love shown between the Churches in Formby, Altcar and Hightown, as they work together to bring the word of God to our district. We give thanks for all the initiatives like the Nativity at Christmas and the Passion Play at Easter, showing the world that we can and will work together for our shared faith. Soon, the process of finding the new vicar will start to move to the next stage, and we pray that whoever God has chosen will be hearing His call to come and work in Holy Trinity and St Michael’s. We pray for Godly discernment, for a ‘right fit’, and that we all will welcome whoever it is, with open arms. "How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!" Ps 133:1
DECEMBER 25 NEWSLETTERJulie Writes...Dear friends,Firstly, thank you so much for such a wonderful Christmas and for all your hard work to make the many events and services happen so well. I received some lovely feedback from many of our services.So now we look forward to a New Year, and the joy, challenges and changes it may bring to us in our United Benefice and as individuals. Inside my kitchen cupboard I pin poems and prayers which have appealed to me at one time of another and looking again today I noticed M. Louise Haskin’s poem The Gate of the Year which seems relevant now.And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown".And he replied:"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way".So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.With God’s LoveJulie
