The link below is for the December magazine including the Vicar’s letter and details of our Christmas events.

The posters below give details of our upcoming festival

Foodbank Christmas Closures

Unfortunately local foodbanks are closed from 23rd December 2024-3rd January 2025. 

St Paul’s Church Hall pantry shelves will be open during after service refreshments on Sunday 22nd December and by request after services on Christmas Day and Sunday 29th December. 

Please contact a member of clergy or church warden.

Please note there will be no evening service on Sunday 29th December and no midweek Communion on Wednesday 1st January.

The following paragraphs detail areas which require some types of help,

Please get in touch if any of these interest you.

Could you be our new Churches Together in Sale representative? Meetings take place once a quarter and are held midweek in the evenings. This volunteer role would suit someone with good IT and communication skills, who enjoys working with others and has a desire to get involved with where God is at work in the local area alongside those worshiping in local churches. You will need to prepare a short report for the Parochial Church Council so you can feedback from Churches Together meeting any actions that need taking.

Would you consider being an OWL?

The OWLs course is for those who find themselves leading worship on an occasional basis, (no more than once a month) and do not feel called to licensed or ordained ministry. 

People who have trained as OWLs so far include those planning and leading worship in specific regular services (for example, monthly café church, Taize, Iona, All-Age), those who occasionally lead Morning or Evening Prayer on Sundays, or Churchwardens and others leading services during a vacancy.

A 4-week course in Leading Public Worship is part of the process of becoming a locally authorised Occasional Worship Leader. The course works for people who have been leading worship for years as well as people who are starting out. OWLs are discerned and authorised locally in the parish-so please contact Becky or any member of the clergy in the first instance if you’re interested or would like to know more.

Occasional Worship Leaders – Diocese of Chester

Help Needed!

Our Christmas Tree festival is nearly upon us and we really need to identify folks who can help in various ways:

This might be helping to clean the church beforehand and help set up trees and move furniture

We need folks to help with publicity- distributing posters, flyers and encouraging friends/family/local business to come along!

During the festival itself we need volunteers to help with stewarding, refreshments, assisting with crafts, selling raffle tickets and being prepared to chat with our visitors.

After the festival we need help with cleaning, tidying up, moving furniture and hoovering. 

If you can offer any help please do contact Lisa Clarke/Revd Becky (stewards/welcome) (or Eileen Craven & Joyce Green (refreshments) and Vicki Moore (Santa’s Grotto).

Many thanks,

Becky

Here are two posters covering the beginning of the Christmas events.

Please use the link below to read the letter the Bishop of Chester has written following the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury,

On Sunday 10th November due to ongoing work at the TownHall the usual procession to the Cenotaph started for all the uniformed attendees, the band and the choir outside St Paul’s.In previous years onle the Choir and congregation processed from St Pauls.

As the Vicar was still incapacitated Shemil led the Service at the Cenotaph, Yvonne S and Clive walked with the Churchwarden’s staffs and Donald gave the “they shal not grow old” speech.

The Slideshow below shows some photos taken at the Service.

The latest Prayer diary can be read below.

On Sunday afternoon (Nov 3rd) St Paul’s hosted the Manchester Yinghua Choir. It was a fantastic event and the photos below were taken during the show.