Church Open / Close: mainly closing on Tuesdays and Fridays, opening / closing on Saturdays & occasional cover for those on holiday.Welcomers and Servers: to join the team on Sundays (starts at 9:00am).If you are interested in any of the above, please speak to Helen or Revd Becca.
On 5 September 11:00am – 2:00pm, the church is hosting a St Mary’s fun day for our community. We want to do games, crafts and teddy parachute from the tower. Little Cherubs are running tea, coffee and cake sales from the VSR and other stalls. Money raised will be for the church and Little Cherubs. I would love some people to help set up some games and activities, or if you have anything you think would help please get in touch. Thank you.Revd Becca
As mentioned last week we budgeted to pay our Share to diocese based on one priest, the recently appointed Rector. However, the post of a part time priest has now been advertised which means that we can no longer use the excuse that there will only be one priest following this appointment. So how does the PCC find a way to manage this? Following debate within the PCC the Treasurer will discuss our situation with the Diocesan Director of Finance.Mike Sargent, Hon Treasurer
We have eight bells at St Mary’s Gillingham, which are rung regularly.Bell practice is on Monday evenings from 7:30pm to 9pm. The bells are rung for the 10am Sunday morning Eucharist from 9:30am.We have a small friendly team of ringers, but need a few more people to join us.If you would like to learn to ring (age from about 11 or adult), why not come along to one of our practice sessions to see us ringing and find out what is involved?Bell ringing is good fun for people of all ages, as well as being a service to the church. And it’s excellent exercise!Possibly you are already able to ring and would like to take this up again and join us.If you are interested, please contact the Ringing Coordinator, Alan Jeffs, on awjeffs@btinternet.com.
