St Thomas

Merciful God, teach us to be faithful in change and uncertainty, that trusting in your word and obeying your will we may enter the unfailing joy of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

As the pandemic has not gone away, we believe that we still need to take a careful approach to protect each other. This means that we will encourage people as much as is possible to still wear masks inside our buildings and follow safe control measures such as sanitising on arrival and departure, safe distancing and so on. Congregational singing is now allowed but again the encouragement will be very much to wear masks while singing.

You will no longer need to phone St Andrew’s Church office to book in for services in advance but we will be asking people to sign in on arrival at services as, though track and trace will no longer be a legal requirement, we are being asked to continue to do it for now if possible.

This has all now been agreed at meetings for St Andrew’s, St James', St Peter’s and St Thomas’s - and will be reviewed as we move forward.

This week:

Community Craft and Chat . Hello all Knitters and Crocheters. We restarted on 27th September 12.20-2pm at St James in the church. If you would like to join us please contact me, Pat. ( patcol@blueyonder.co.uk or 07795147109.)

Book Club Everyone welcome. If you haven’t tried a book club previously please do join us, you will be made very welcome. Our book club is on Tuesdays on Zoom at 7.30pm This week we will be discussing chapter 6 of our new book 'Journey into God's Heart, by Jennifer Rees Larcombe. Even if you have joined our book club previously please can you contact Claire on email.shermanclaire33@yahoo.co.uk for the zoom code.

Bible Studies : two Bible Studies are still running on a Monday afternoon 3pm on Zoom and a Thursday evening at 7.00pm in St Andrews Church Hall. We are looking at the book of Revelation. All are welcome so please do come along to either Monday or Thursday. It isn't too late to join in!

Friday 29th October MMC3G Cheese and Wine, and fun quiz evening, Melling Tithebarn at 7.30pm. Contact Revd. Dave, Margaret Hubbard or David Ward. Tickets are £7.50. Bring your own glass please. Tickets are limited so it's first come first served!

Sunday 31st October Team Service St Andrew 10.30am. This is Revd. Dave’s last service. Please join for lunch. For catering purposes please book your place if you are staying for lunch.

DAILY PRAYER CYCLE - The diary with local streets and topics to be prayed for each week can be downloaded from the 'Praying for our Team and Local Community' page. This week we pray for the work of those who are engaged in development work overseas.

We also pray for Rev. Lynn Treneary of the Church Mission Society and her work with the people of Maridi in South Sudan.

This week we pray for the residents of Martine Close, Old Prescot Close, Olive Close, Peach Grove, Powder Works Lane, Prescot Road South, Prescot Road.

Please remember to use the Team Prayer in your prayer times: you can find it on the Praying for our Team and Community page.

TEAM PRAYERS: the next meeting will be on Saturday 30th October at 10am

Advance Notices

Memory Café

A Memory Café for people with dementia, accompanied by a carer, will be held at the Meeting Room in St. James Church, from 1pm to 2.30pm, every Friday, from the 8th October to 10th December, inclusive. It will then be evaluated to determine whether or not it has been successful, and if so, how to take it forward again in 2022.

If you, or maybe a relative you look after, would both like to come to the cafe, please contact Pat Dunbar, Pastoral Outreach Worker, memorycafe60@gmail.com or by calling 07795 147109.

Places over the ten week trial are limited, so please enquire about availability in the first instance.

Friday 5th November Tea and Scones at St Peter's Church 2.00pm-3.00pm.

Team Prayer Day: Saturday 6th November From 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at St James’ Church

You are invited to spend some time praying for the appointment of our new Rector and for the ministry and mission of our Team Churches. There will be a variety of activities available as a focus for individual prayer. A special prayer will be said on the hour every hour and everyone will be invited to join in. Feel free to drop in for as long as you wish – we will be delighted to welcome you! If you are unable to join us, please spend some time at home during that day praying for the future of our Benefice. For more information, speak with Pat Dunbar, Claire Sherman or Jill Smallpage

Gettalife Project and Maghull and Melling Team Ministry Knitting: from Claire Sherman

I am planning on making a delivery to the New Horizons Project on Sheil Road on Tuesday 9th November. If you have items - knitted hats, scarves, gloves, children's jumpers, any other warm garments that you would like to donate - please let me know on 07427 616030 and we can organise collection. Thank you!

MAGHULL AND MELLING REGULAR ONLINE SERVICES

The Church to You online service continues though a new service will only be made available twice a month on the first and third Sundays (please see the services page for the link and instructions) and if anyone needs anything or needs to talk to someone please contact a member of our clergy team.

There is also the the Daily Hope free phone number (details in the separate news item).

CHURCH TO YOU - Daily ONLINE COMPLINE EVENING / BEDTIME PRAYERS … you might want to try our YouTube prayers- Here is the link….. https://youtu.be/ToNyAL4mulE Subtitles are available by clicking on CC.

You can download the Bible readings for October from the News and Notices page.

Foodbank Update :

As many of you know, Maghull Methodist church is closing. The Foodbank will still be accepting donations on Tuesdays between 10-12 noon for a few more weeks, possibly till after Christmas, until they relocate. Their new location is to be at St George's United Reformed Church opposite Iceland. Once all is finalised a date will appear here.

We continue to support our independent Maghull foodbank on a Tuesday for the surrounding area. Last week 2 families were helped and donations were received from Maghull Chapel, St Peter's and St James' Church from their Harvest services. This week 3 families were helped and donations were received from St George's United Reformed Church from their Harvest service. St Andrew's and St Thomas' Harvest donations were gratefully received by the Sefton Trussell Trust as Maghull foodbank said they had more than they could hold with storage and gave their blessing for Sefton to receive the donations: thank you all.

GDPR Forms . We would like to keep in touch by sending you relevant information. Please download the GDPR form which is self-explanatory and can be found on the 'GDPR Form' page. If you wish to receive the Bulletin and other information and you haven’t filled in a form yet please fill this in and return it as directed on the form.

CONTACT DETAILS

And please remember that we have created a new email address for you to get in touch to send us prayer requests, song requests or just to get in touch…...the email address is churchtoyou@gmail.com

Please contact Dave or Simon or Gordon …

If you know anyone who would like to receive this email

If there is anyone who needs prayer

If you know anyone who needs a phone call

Contact details :

Revd. Simon Elliott 07919 464348 revsimonelliott76@gmail.com

Revd. Dave Hamlett 07972 577801 dhamlett@blueyonder.co.uk

Revd. Gordon Macleod 07876 352156 gordonimacleod@gmail.com

Outreach Pastoral Worker Pat Dunbar 07795147109 patcol@blueyonder.co.uk

St Thomas

News and notices

Latest News!!

Readings for the services in October 2021

GDPR form to download

2021 Events for Maghull and Melling Christians of the Third Generation

New morning and evening prayer resources

COMMUNITY CRAFT AND CHAT RESTARTING

Zoom Book Club on Tuesdays 28th September onwards 7.30 - 8.15 pm

Team Prayers