136 years and doing well

Saying YES! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. St Chrysostom’s Celebrating 136 years ‘Let us do good to all people’ (Galatians 6.10) We’re celebrating 136 years of St Chrysostom’s Church on Sunday – a celebration of the ‘Church’s birthday.’ More details below. It was a busy week last week on Friday, World Smile Day, Fr Ian and Mtr Kim visited both church schools and encouraged smiling by giving everyone, children and staff, smiley badges. It was a lovely morning – look at this photo from St John’s School and see the head teacher smiling! Harvest produce was also gathered and brought to church – an amazing amount. Thank you to all who contributed. The gifts have been taken to Cornerstone – to help the homeless and disadvantaged of the area and Cornerstone have written thanking us all for our generosity. It was also Fr Ian’s birthday last week. He spent the evening at the Radison Blu Hotel in Manchester! Why? Click here to find out. Celebrating our Church’s birthday on Sunday 11am High Mass – come along and raise your voice in thanksgiving! We have a shared lunch after Mass – bring something to share. 5pm Benediction – a time of holiness and prayer. Do come to this special act of worship, Fr Ian is leading and Revd Penny King will be the Deacon. benediction will be followed by coffee/ tea and cake. On this Sunday each year we encourage people to give to the Church on its birthday by volunteering to do some simple task. We are so grateful to all who give voluntary help at church. On Sunday everyone is given a simple card on which they can indicate what they are willing to do. So come along and be prepared to say YES! Please pray for God’s blessing on our celebrations on Sunday, and for our work and witness as members of St Chrysostom’s, St C’s @ 5pm. There is worship everyday at church. Monday to Thursday Mass, Friday to Sunday Vespers. Did you know that each Wednesday after 5pm Mass we gather at the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham and offer ‘Parish Prayers’ praying particularly for those who have asked for our prayers. Morning Prayer is usually said Monday to Friday at 9.15pm and on Sundays at 9.30pm. Interested in online help to pray? Try sacred space. We have a bench on order for outside the church, in memory of Dick and Gill Hatch. About the same time as it is introduced we also hope to have a new prayer tree planted near it. There will be a plaque commemorating Dick and Gill in the porch of church. In that place we also hope to introduce other plaques of the same size for those who give specific gifts to the church. John, parish assistant, is encouraging people to join our church facebook group. It’s a great way of sharing thoughts and ideas and also sharing photos too. Its also a great way of getting to know one another better, and so stregthen our church community. There are some lovely photos of World Smile Day and children with Harvest gifts in the Facebook group. If you are not on Facebook why not join and join the Church facebook group, and if you are a member do join in the conversation 🙂 The children of St Chrysostom’s School who met for Munamato prayers on Tuesday talked this week about a passage from St Paul’s letters. ‘Let us do good to all people’ (Galatians 6.10) | forward to a friend Our (New) Church Website Our Church Blog unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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