Please join us for our 10am service to meet and welcome our visitors from Trichy diocese, who will be worshipping with us. There will be a children’s activity making a collage ready for our Harvest service. Please bring pictures of things you enjoy in creation as well as pictures that show how it is being damaged to add to the artwork.

Please join us for the All-Age Morning Worship at 10am. During this service - prayers will be offered for the Queen at the start of the service which will then proceed as planned, following our Creationtide series. This week we will be looking at the ‘Community of Life’. Our 6pm service will be Holy Communion.

The church will be open between 10am to 5pm for private prayer on Saturday 10th September. There will be the option to light a candle and to leave a message in the Book of Condolence.
Ride and Stride and the Charity Afternoon Tea will be going ahead as planned. We are grateful to the Ride and Stride volunteers who will also be on hand to welcome people to private prayer and it is hoped that the Afternoon Tea event will give a good opportunity for people to offer one another comfort in this time of national mourning.

With Harvest time fast approaching, we are looking for volunteers to help with refreshments and to chat with residents at the services we hold in sheltered housing. Please see the newsletter for the dates and times and email Adele if you would like to help. Thank you.

Chris and Marie have kindly welcomed us to return to Home Farm for another ‘Harvest in the Barn’ on Sunday October 9th. We would be grateful for volunteers to help plan and deliver this service – whether leading up front, helping to decorate the barn, or welcoming and facilitating the activities. A planning meeting will be held sometime in the next couple of weeks. Please let Adele know if you would like to be part of this.

We hope that as many of our St Mary’s family as possible will come to the 10am Communion service, to welcome visitors from Trichy (assuming all their travel plans work out this time). After the service there will be a Bring and Share lunch with our visitors for which offers of food would be gratefully received.

Join us at St Mary's for Morning Worship with Communion at 10am. Please note that there is no evening service at St Mary’s this week. Instead, we hope you can come to support some of our young people at their Confirmation Service at Holy Trinity church, Barrow-on Soar, at 4pm.

Prayer Pointers:
• Please give thanks for a successful visit to New Wine and pray that they will find a suitable venue for next year.
• The development and building of the new version of the hovercraft: Please pray that general funds will be realised to continue this and other work (thank you St. Mary’s).
• The trustees and staff in the UK, the Netherlands and Madagascar: Pray that the changes and integration of accounting systems proceed well and a new Country Director in Madagascar be found.
• Give thanks for the Medical Safaris, the rebuilding of the SALFA health post at Ambaladara, and pray for a fruitful project around Maevetenana using our hovercraft to reach remote villages and fully understand the situation in the locality.

Please note that due to Jo being on annual leave next week, these notices cover the next 2 weeks, so there are a lot of notices!

Join us for our services in the building for our All Age Morning Worship at 10am and Holy Communion at 6pm.