Fr Peter's review of Pastoral Care in Practice: An introduction and guide, by Michael Hopkins, was recently published in the Church Times.You can read it here: Book review: Pastoral Care in Practice: An introduction and guide by Michael Hopkins (churchtimes.co.uk)
During Lent we will be holding a Lent course every Thursday at 7pm in the Church Hall. Dubbed, Problematic Passages, we will be asking people to bring those parts of the Bible which we find difficult to understand or troubling and discuss them together.For our Lent Appeal this year we will be raising money to twin the toilets in our church hall to fund Tearfund's work to provide basic sanitation to those in need. Our church hall toilets were recently out of action for a few days and that minor inconvenience for us reminded us of the very major issue for many across the world who have no access to things which we take for granted.
We are currently running a short survey to find out what people who come to St Mary's like, don't like or would like to change about St Mary's.For those who come to the church regularly, survey forms can be found at the back of church and, when completed, put into a box at the back.If you have been to St Mary's in the last year and would like to give any feedback about your experience for inclusion in the survey then you can send your responses through the Get in Touch function and answer the questions:1. What do you like about St Mary's?2. Is there anything that you don't like about St Mary's?3. If you could change something or introduce something new about St Mary's what would it be?; and 4. Any other commentsThe results of the survey will be fed back during our Parish AGM.
