Please see below the October Prayer Diary

We are getting ready for celebrating Harvest this coming Sunday 6th Oct at 10am with our special guests Springfield School choir.
Please bring along food and toiletry donations for our local food-bank and the Mustard Tree project in Manchester.
If you prefer, there will be an opportunity to offer a monetary donation to Christian Aid’s Harvest of Hope project.
We are having a two-part service, beginning with a service of the word, which includes refreshments midway, and concluding with communion.
This service will be live-streamed

The photos below show Barbara and Joyce handing over donations to the Mustard Tree and Trafford South FoodBank.

After the Sunday morning service on Sept 22nd Harry cut a cake in the hall to celebrate his 90th.

He now joins the 90 Club in the choir, singing must be good for you.

Please see the What’s On/Church Events for details of two special services in October – Harvest and All Soul’s

 We have been awarded our Bronze Eco Church award – and the certificate and the award button are shown below.

We are looking for a volunteer to take on being our EcoChurch Champion at St Paul’s, we need a volunteer who is concerned with ecological issues, computer-literate and a good communicator.

Please have a chat with Revd Becky or Revd Lisa (Forest Church) if you can help.

The Church and Hall were open again this year for the annual national Heritage Day. Once again there were activities and refreshments available including tower tours, face painting, story telling and access to the parish registers. Inside the church there was an abundance of old photos from the archives and a display showing historical events connected with the Church over the decades. The Sale Brass Band played a selection of music which accompanied the good weather. The slideshow below shows photos taken during the afternoon.

See below for the September Parish News.

Also the Community Choir schedule for the rest of the year is available under the Community heading .

Heritage Open Day returns to St Paul’s this year on Saturday 14th September.

In preparation for this, donations are welcome for the hampers which will be raffled on the day. Items should have a sell-by date after Feb 2025. They can be brought to Church in the next few weeks up to the 13th Sept.

Please see the poster below for details.

Members of St Paul’s with long memories will be sad to hear of the death of Hilda Arnold last month. She was the wife of one of our previous vicars, Roy Arnold, and was at St Paul’s between 1975 and 1982. She was very active in the life of St Paul’s during here stay in Sale

Her funeral is on this Thursday Aug 8th at Bollington Parish Church at 12 noon.

The photo below shows Hilda and Roy in the 1970s.