St Mary's Notices

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!

This month is “Music for Eastertide” performed by Jeremy Kimber and Liz Paling on 2 pianos with music from Bach and Beethoven. The evening will follow the usual format of a short service of Evening
Worship including musical items, followed by refreshments and a half hour concert. Entrance is free, donations are welcome. Other dates in the near future will be: 19th May and 16th June.

Many apologies to all but unfortunately choir has had to be CANCELLED for this Sunday due to
unforeseen circumstances. However, Adele has invited the Choir to sing on Sunday the 19th of May at 6pm in the WWCF service. If you’d like to be part of this, please email admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk to let her know as soon as possible. Many thanks, and, as always – EVERYONE welcome!

At our All-Together service at 10am we will be thinking about ‘Learning from our Mistakes’, encouraged by the example of the first disciples who often got it wrong, but who God still loved and worked with, turning those mistakes to good. In the evening, at our 6pm service, our theme is ‘Recognising and Responding’, based on an exploration of the gospel reading. Everyone is welcome. The readings are Acts 3:11-20 and Luke 24:36-48.

The next St Mary’s Ladies Meeting, for coffee and chat, will take place on Tuesday, 9th April at 10.30am. This replaces our usual time. We will continue to support the Food Bank and the latest list of most urgent needs includes Shower Gel, Toilet Rolls, Coffee, Biscuits and small tins of Beans, Vegetables and Meat suitable for single people.

Our next meeting on the 8th of April is the first of our summer series at St Mary’s, when we have a talk by Rev. Ali Walton, Associate Rector at Emmanuel Church. We start with coffee at 10:15am in the Chapter House at St Mary's. We don’t have formal ‘membership’ - all ladies and gentlemen are welcome to any of our meetings.

This Sunday 7th April there will be an All-Together Agape Meal at 10am and Evensong at 6pm. Everyone is welcome to join us. At our monthly Agape meal we will be expressing our fellowship as the body of Christ
and giving thanks for God’s goodness as we share bread and grape juice. At 6pm we will worship through the traditional service of Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer. It’s great to have such diversity of approaches as we seek to encounter and worship God together. The readings are Acts 4:32-35 and John 20:19-31 and we will be thinking about Faith and Doubt.

People are encouraged to attend the compline service at 7.30pm, followed straight after by the final session of the Lent course at around 8pm. This will complete our 6 week study of the Gospel of Mark: “Living the Way of Jesus in the World" https://licc.org.uk/product/mark-living-the-way-of-jesus-in-the-world/