On Saturday 21st May a Day of Celebrations was held in St. Helen's Church. Rt Revd Mark Tanner, Bishop of Chester, blessed the new internal glass doors and then walked a short section of the St. Helen's Heritage Trail. The Bishop was accompanied by the Mayor of Northwich, Graham Emmett, people who had helped to put the trail together, members of the congregation and local community.During the day the church was open for refreshments. There were children's activities, musical performances by local schools, a sales table and people added knitted flowers to the netting which will be part of the flowers from the tower display for Northwich in Bloom. Thank you to everyone who gave a donation at this event. The total raised on the day for the Motor Neurone Disease Association was £526.
CHRISTIAN AID NEWS Barbara Moth, our Christian Aid Rep. has the following good news to report: the envelope collection during Christian Aid week was £225.50; between them Angela Atkinson and Barbara raised £1,165 through their 300,000 steps challenge in May; between January and April donations at Lent Lunches and Saturday morning Open Church raised £813.52 and a further £354.49 was donated for Christian Aid’s Ukraine Appeal. Barbara would like to thank everyone for their generosity.
During the winter months volunteers from church and the local community have cleared large areas of the church grounds, removing significant amounts of holly, ivy and countless small saplings.The last volunteer day will be on Friday 11th March from 9:30am until lunch time when we hope there will be lots of volunteers to contribute to one final effort.We should then all be able to enjoy much improved church grounds, with hopefully, less litter.If you would like to be part of this volunteer workforce just turn up anytime after 9.30am on Friday 11th March. Tools and refreshments will be provided.
It was great to be able to hold Christingle Services in church this year. Thank you to everyone who made the Christingles on Saturday morning and to ASDA for donating the oranges for the Church service and to the staff who made the Christingles for the school service.The chuch service held on Advent Sunday was full of joy and different families took part in telling the Story of the Christingle, reading the Bible and leading prayers by candle light. The school service was full of excited children who listened intently as Vicar Andrew explained what each part of the Christingle meant.The Children's Society will benefit to the tune of £548.76. Thank you to everyone who donated so generously..
