St Mary's Notices

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.

The complete updated list from 2022 is:
• Intercare
• CMS - Ben and Katy Ray
• Hope Against Cancer
• Christian Aid
• The Laura Centre
• St Mary’s Pudukkottai, Trichy Diocese and the Kiteto and Kilimanjaro Dioceses
• HoverAid
• Steps
• SOaR
• Child Contact Centre
• The Bridge
Each of the 11 tithed charities is due to receive £613. We will also continue to support other charities by appeal when necessary, such as our Project 5000 food collections throughout the year. A Rocha, an environmental charity, will be supported by appeal at Harvest-time, when we focus on God's creation.

The Church Electoral Roll will be revised by the PCC beginning on Tuesday 15th February and ending on Tuesday 1st March. Please see notice below.

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

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

Inter Care sends targeted medical aid to over 100 Christian health Mission hospitals and clinics in 5 sub-Saharan African Countries providing lifesaving healthcare to where there are huge levels of poverty coupled with a severe lack of resources. Locally full and part-time staff and over 50 volunteers are based in Syston to support the work. See the link below to Inter Care's website
Please pray for:
• All those who receive the help from Inter Care, many of whom are very sick and whose families may have travelled hours on foot to get to the clinics for their healing and recovery.
• Prayers for the staff at Inter Care’s Mission partner health units, who work tirelessly to treat vulnerable patients and are coping with Covid both among staff and patients, and do not have the advantage of courses of vaccinations to the same extent as in the UK.
• The medical aid sent reaches the destinations safely.
• The volunteers in Syston, who dedicate their time to support Inter Care, doing God’s work.
• For awareness of the value and need for Inter Care’s work in Africa to grow across the UK.
• For the inspiration and further development and opportunities from UK pharmaceutical and wholesale companies.
• For help from the public, both in recycling and financial support.

Join us for a short service at 6pm followed by refreshments and a half hour concert of music performed by Jeremy Kimber with the theme of Epiphany. We have put together a varied programme which will make for a great evening. In order to facilitate ventilation, numbers are restricted to 50 so please book your place and think of friends outside of church you could invite and book in too.

Happy New Year to all! Join us on Sunday if you are able but please do a lateral flow test first and wear your face mask. Thank you.

The Bridge (East Midlands) is a charity that has been working for the community since 1993, delivering a number of specialist housing related advice, support, and assistance services plus accommodation options to homeless and vulnerably housed people across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
Their vision is to create resilient, compassionate communities where individuals thrive in safe and secure homes and develop sustainable housing solutions through partnership, empowerment, and good practice.
• Give thanks for the community and clients served over the last thirty years by The Bridge.
• Pray for the work of the Charnwood Food Poverty Group and the many groups supporting it.
• Pray for the appointment of a new Community Engagement Lead in the near future.
• Pray that those who are referred to or approach the charity for help may be found a lasting home or enabled to remain in the one they have.

At 3pm - to conclude Christmas in the Woods, a short service for all ages around the firepit in the woods.

A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all and please join us in church on Christmas Eve 8pm, Christmas Day 10am and Boxing Day 10am if you are able but don't forget your face mask!

10am-3pm each day. Following the success of last year, we will again be hosting this 'drop in' event for people to explore the Christmas story at interactive stations around the wood.