Please join us on Sunday 21st April for Morning Communion at 10am and/or Worship with a Classical Flavour at 6pm. This week we will be thinking about the theme of Power and Influence and the model given
us by Jesus. The readings are Acts 4:5-12 and John 10:11-18 and there will be a children’s group during the morning service. In the evening, please invite friends and family to join us for ‘Worship with a Classical
Flavour’ at 6pm, this month featuring Jeremy Kimber and Liz Paling on 2 pianos. There will be a short service of Evening Worship including musical items, followed by refreshments and a half hour concert with music from Bach and Beethoven. Donations are very welcome to cover costs.

This group warmly invites anyone who would welcome some company whether they live alone or not. It is a lovely opportunity to meet together to share lunch and chat. The meetings take place on the last Wednesday of each month at the Toby Carvery, Forest Road at 12 noon. Please contact admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk if you would like any more details.

The Choir have been invited to perform on Sunday the 19th of May at 6pm in the WWCF service.
Everyone is welcome, whether you have sung with the choir before, or not! There will be two
rehearsals; this one on the 28th April and the second on the 5th May, both after the Sunday morning
service. If you’d like to be part of this, please email admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk.

This will be an ‘Open Church’ event offering information and activities related to care for our world. The church will be decorated with a rainbow theme, and we hope to have refreshments, crafts, a woodland trail, and community run stalls.

HELP NEEDED! We still need crafters to help with making flowers in all the colours of the rainbow, all shapes and sizes, plus stars in yellow and white for the eco weekend click here for knitting patterns. Please also let us know if you are able to donate flowers from your garden!

There will be some community run stalls with an Eco theme – if you know anyone who might like to have a stall, please email admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk Finally, we need some volunteers to help run the refreshments throughout the day. If you are available and would like to help serve on the rota for 1, 2 or all 6 hours!! please contact admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk.

We meet weekly on Thursday mornings at 10am-11.30am at Ronald West Court in Loughborough.
In the run up to Easter we have had so many special days to think about and to celebrate, from Chinese New Year and Pancake Day to Mothering Sunday and St Patrick’s Day. We’ve made pop-up moles, Mardi Gras hats and bear masks, celebrated Spring with bubble wrap blossom paintings, made palms to wave as we shared the Good Friday story, and created beautiful sun-catcher crosses as a reminder of the transformation of the cross to become a symbol of beauty and hope. If you haven't been before and would like to come, please do come along!

Join us on Sunday if you are able but we do encourage you do a lateral flow test first and wear your face mask. Thank you.

Everyone is welcome to join us for morning prayer each day at 9am. Please contact Adele for the zoom details.

Join the global wave of prayer calling all Christians to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for more people to come to know the love and peace of Jesus Christ. May 21st - May 31st 2020.

Please keep praying for Matt and Mary and the new people engaging through the St Mary’s Forest Church page on Facebook and maybe take a look yourself.

Join our online service of communion for Pentecost. Click "More Details" to go to the YouTube playlist.

As part of our thinking about 'a better world' and the need for change, I thought I'd share with you a couple of Pentecost messages I found thought-provoking. This first one comes from an event for Thy Kingdom Come - the Archbishop of Canterbury led a service with contributions from church leaders of many denominations including the Pope, who gave a homily addressing the need for change which you can see by clicking more details.

Adele looks forward to Pentecost this Sunday, and further ahead to our next sermon series based on the Tearfund resource ‘The World Rebooted’.

Thank you to all those who have already contributed to Christian Aid Week. Great News - so far locally we have raised just over £7,000. Certainly well worth a celebration. There is still time to donate via the local Just Giving Page on the Christian Aid Website.

All your donations are greatly appreciated and will support much needed work in poor communities. In addition to the various challenges these people have, they, like us, continue to face coronavirus but without the resources that we have around us. Many thanks, Jane North

As part of our thinking about 'a better world' and the need for change, I thought I'd share with you a couple of Pentecost messages I found thought-provoking: This one is from Bishop Martyn. In his weekly message he challenged us to think about how we translate our whole life as church into the new context we find ourselves in. Click more details to play the video.

All our online services are on the St Mary's YouTube channel. You can view these on computer, phone, tablet and TVs with compatible apps. The link to the latest service is always on the website. If you watch on a TV app make sure you do find first the Playlists section of our Channel to see the videos and songs in order!

Keep up to date and join in with our facebook page.

Please click "more details" to open the YouTube Playlist for our Trinity Sunday service. Available from Sunday morning!

Wasn't the peace video great? Matt sends his apologies that a few people got left off by mistake. He has very kindly added them in now, which gives us the perfect excuse for showing it again this Sunday! We've put it on our YouTube channel as a separate video which you can see anytime with this link

Adele introduces our new sermon series considering how we might build on recent experiences to create a better world for the future. There are also links to related Pentecost messages from Pope Francis and Bishop Martyn.

This is the final week of our series 'Exploring Prayer' with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week we will be discussing videos 4 and 5 in a short and informal discussion at the Wednesdays at 12 zoom meeting (password stmarys). You can find videos by clicking more details

A reminder ... everyone is invited to decorate a green fabric square (4, 6 or 8 inches + border) using whatever technique you choose. When sewn together, we hope this will form a banner that speaks of our continued faith and hope through this time of separation. Please contact Katherine Hetzel for more details.

Adele writes to introduce the theme of "Greater Togetherness" for this Sunday's Service, welcoming Lusa Nsenga Ngoy who will be preaching, and encouraging us to reflect again on our vision priorities and what it might mean to be truly ‘Open’ and ‘Connected’. Click more details to read the letter.

I expect you will have heard the government announcement that churches can now open for private prayer
when they can do so safely. Please pray for us as we plan for how we can do this in a way that is welcoming but also sustainable and safe for both visitors and volunteers.

This week we continue our series based on the Tearfund video 'The World Rebooted' - this Sunday exploring the second strand 'Valuing Life' with some challenging Bible passages which I think raise lots of questions.

Loughborough Churches Partnership has produced a video of church leaders praying an amplified version of the Lord's Prayer for Loughborough. It will be shown at the end of Sunday's service and you can followo the link below to watch it. Please share the link with local friends and neighbours.