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16th June 2019
Trinity Sunday
First time? Welcome! Make yourself at home.
Need anything? Ask one of our
welcome team who’d love to help.
Stay for a chat! There are
refreshments after the main services,
served at the back
Toilets? Can be found on the right at
the back of church
Giving? There’s no collection during
services. Please place any gifts in the box near the main door. Standing order
and gift-aid forms are available.
Young children? Use our sound-
proofed Tower Room if they get
restless, or join in 9.30 Sunday clubs at Upper Room
Deaf? An induction loop is available.
Mobiles? Turn OFF, unless on call
Prayer? There is prayer support after
9.30 & 6.30 services, and during communion, at the front of the church
Partnering with parents On Wednesday evening Mel Lacy, Executive Director of Growing Young Disciples and Di-rector of the Children’s and Youth Ministry Course at Oak Hill College came and led us in a dedicated session exploring how parents can engage their children in Christian thinking when it comes to popular culture. We had a great evening, where parents from 7 different churches came together and shared in fellow-ship.
We looked deeper into what builds our chil-dren’s worldviews, and how we can encourage them to engage rightly and well with the cul-ture they are surrounded by. We thought more about how to ask the children: what is true and beautiful about this? (Whether it’s a T.V programme or a social media site that they use). God has given us common grace, the good things of this world, which can be found in many T.V programmes, etc.
But then we also need to ask: what is false and ugly about this? We live in a fallen world, where sin has ruined many good gifts from God. Mel encouraged us to talk through these things with our children, so that they can iden-tify what does, and what doesn’t fit with the gospel, and how the gospel applies to the specific area.
Our next partnering with parents even will be Wednesday February 12th 2020 (topic TBC), so keep your eyes open for more in-formation nearer the time!
Thank you and Welcome! A huge thank you to everyone who
helped to spruce up the curate house in
Oakfield Avenue in readiness to welcome
our new curate and family, Ian & Jodie
Chidlow with little Evie. A special shout
out to Robert Webster, Steve Whitaker,
Roz & Steve Whittaker, Iain Beeston, Ali
Drayton, Jan Mealand, Graham Lowcock
and Mel MacLeod. Their hard work has
created a lovely home for the Chidlow
family. Some works are still ongoing but
should be completed very soon.
Ian will be taking up role as Curate on
Sunday 30th June and will spend the
time until then settling in so you may see
them around, they will also be going to
Quinta for the weekend.
Ladies Health & Wellbeing
Evening Thursday 27th June 2019, 7.30—9.30pm
The Moseley Hall, Upper Room, Cheadle
£5 for adults, £3 under 18’s.
There will be a demonstration by Clarins, hair
tips from The Cutting Rooms, relaxation tips,
a talk from Helen Hart who has over 20 years
experience working in mental health along
with some creative projects and reflective
colouring. Refreshments will be served
throughout the evening. Please speak to Trish
Wells or call the office if
you have any queries. You
can book on churchsuite or
through the Events page
on the website—
www.cheadle.org.uk/
events.
St Mary’s presents
‘Comedy & Dinner evening
with Tom Elliott’
Comedian, Magician & Christian
Friday 5th July at 7pm
Bramall Park Golf Club
Tickets are now on sale via our website—
www.cheadle.org.uk/
events for this great event.
All funds raised on the
night are for Open Arms
International.
Tickets just £25.00 per
person, 2 course meal and
coffee. The bar will be open to purchase
drinks. Everybody welcome.
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Announcements and Church News NEXT WEEK & BEYOND …! Special meetings or events which don’t
happen on a weekly basis are listed below:
A full list of activities can be found on
either ChurchSuite or website calendars
Monday 17th June
4.30pm Dangerous Boys Bible Study
Tuesday 18th June
3.45pm Dynamos KS1 in UR
Wednesday 19th June
2pm Tomalin’s Africa Trip—photo showing
Friday 21st June
1pm No Limits Friendship Group in UR
4pm Quinta Weekend Away starts,
continuing through the weekend
7pm Forge meeting—CANCELLED
Tuesday@Two
Tuesday 18June 2pm
Everyone is welcome to our meeting when
Louis Johnson will be speaking about
Creativity, music & faith.
Refreshments will be served, we look
forward to welcoming you.
Tomalins in South Africa Wednesday 19 June 2pm
At 2pm on Wednesday 19th June in the Moseley Hall, Stan will be showing his homegroup some of his pictures of the recent family trip to see Adam in South Africa. If anyone would like to come along and see them - could you please let Stan know.
Primary Focus Many of you will know that apart from Mark Tomlinson’s role here as Children’s Outreach Worker, he is self-employed in sharing the gospel in many other places. His latest Prayer Letter is now available and if you don’t receive it at present, please have a word with him and he would be very happy to give you a copy and put you on his future mailing list. For more information contact him by email at [email protected]
SUMMER SOUND - 28th June At Easter we had a wonderful time in Speke, playing games, calligraphing book-marks, learning what faith looks like for teenagers and eating hot dogs (and, in Luke’s car, McDonalds as well…)
Well, it’s nearly time for Focus members to head to SOUND again! Please sign up at the link below, and let Luke know you’re coming, so that he can arrange lifts for everyone. If money is an issue, please speak to Luke.
WHERE: All Saints Church, Preston
HOW MUCH: £4
https://www.thisissound.com
JUICE Puppets
It is now 12 years since I first
set up the JUICE Puppets
ministry at St. Mary’s. During this time, I
have trained up more than 30 puppeteers
to develop their skills and be part of a
ministry that has presented the gospel in
many different ways, particularly at
Christmas time, Easter and during our
annual Holiday Bible Club.
Puppet ministry is a fun and effective
way to share the gospel across all ages
and in many different settings, from
churches, to markets and fairs.
Traditionally most of the team have been
at least 11 years of age (school Year 7)
and upwards, with a couple of adults to
help and support.
Over the last couple of years, a number of
the team have gone off to university and I
am now looking towards September and
adding new recruits to the team.
If you are in school year 6 or above and
would like to find out more and maybe
attend a workshop to explore whether
this is something you would like to try,
then please sign up on church suite and
complete the enquiry form. I am hoping
to have a meeting including ‘having a go’
before the summer.
As a new initiative I am also looking to
begin a purely adult team to help with
assemblies in our local schools. If you
would like to find out more, please also
sign up via church suite.
You could also email me with any
questions via
God Bless
Mark Tomlinson
News from Mike & Tolu Hocking-Gill
Mike has been in touch from NSW Australia
announcing the birth of baby Omolara
Kerenza Hocking-Gill, born on 30th May ,
weighing 7lb 15oz. Mother and baby are
doing well! Omolara is a Yoruba name from
Tolu's Nigerian tribe, it means ‘A child is
family’.
In Cornish, Kerenza simply means ‘Love’
They wanted to thank you all for your
prayers over the years.
Andras & Hajnalka Zambo Silver Wedding Anniversary Graham will be travelling to Budapest to
join in the celebrations later this month –
he will be taking a card over from St Mary’s
– do sign up sending your greetings
today (Please see Graham)
Thank you George Jowett is now out of hospital, he
and Ruth would like to thank everybody for
their prayers over this difficult time.
On Elsewhere?
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GET IT IN THE DIARY … !
Rose Betts
Peter Fraser
Tom Harper
Norman Jones
George Jowett
Aileen & Tom Latham
Sean McCausland
Collect for Trinity Sunday
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from all adversities; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
PRAYER
Friday 5th July 7pm—Comedy event at
Bramall Park Golf Club—funds to Open
Arms International (Tickets available
through Churchsuite and via the
website)
Tuesday 23rd July 7.30pm—Café
Church—Work/Life Balance
Sunday 15th September 12.45pm—
Moveable Feast in homes around the
Parish
JUNE 2019 Tuesday 25th 7.30pm— Café Church,
The Environment
Thursday 27th 7.30pm — Ladies Health
and Wellbeing event
Saturday 29th June 10am — Third Age
Event—Flowers & Gardens
Sunday 30th June 10am — Ordination
Service at Chester Cathedral
If you have any queries please contact the
parish office on 0161 428 8050
Send requests to [email protected]
or ring the Church Office on 428 8050.
Pray for Andras and Hajnalka Zambo as they prepare to celebrate their Silver Wedding shortly – Hajnalka has fractured her wrist last week – pray that this will not hinder the festivities. Thank God for a faithful and loving couple who serve the community in Budapest in any way they can.
Pray for Rick and Alanna Creighton as they continue their home mission assignments visiting supporting churches around the UK and Ireland – pray for the Summer camp that they are involved with coming up. Pray too for some free time to relax and recharge before they return to Nigeria
For The Bereaved Please pray for all those recently bereaved.
FURTHER AHEAD
Persecuted Church - Laos The leader of Laos is President Bounnhang Vorachit. He has been in power since April 2016. There are currently around 225,000 Christians living in Laos - they make up just over three per cent of the total population of 7 million. Laos is ruled by the Communist party, and while Buddhism is an accepted religion as part of the country's national heritage, other religions are seen as a threat. Christianity is seen as a western ideology, and therefore hostile. Christians must take extreme caution to stay on the good side of the Communist authorities. House churches are considered ‘illegal gatherings’ and must operate in secret. The authorities use information from registered churches, which are government-controlled, and local leaders (mostly Buddhist monks) to put pressure on Christians.
Believers from Buddhist backgrounds bear the brunt of persecution as they are considered to have betrayed their Buddhist-animist community. They are frequently put under pressure by their own extended families.
For your prayers ...
Alma Mealand
Peggy Mountford
Mary Robertson
Andrew Smith
Naida Thompson
Sylvia Tomlinson
Services at Chester Cathedral
Sunday 30th June 10am
Ordination service for Ian Chidlow,
Peter Dooley & Jeremy Beatty
Saturday 20th July 11am
Farewell Service for Bishop Peter
This will be a ticketed service so if you
are wishing to attend, please let the
Parish Office know so you can be
included in our allocation of tickets. The
closing date for tickets is 30 June.
David Whitehouse New Vicar of St Andrew’s, Leyland
Institution Service
Saturday 27th July at 6pm
David Whitehouse, former Associate
Minister of St Mary’s, is the new vicar at
St Andrew’s, Leyland.
If anybody would like to attend the
evening service please contact St
Andrew’s directly on:
“Living Christianity” an evening
organised by The Christian Institute at
Chorlton Evangelical Church – Chorlton
Green, Manchester M21 9FG on
Thursday 27th June at 7 30 pm the range
of topics to be discussed will
inlude Family,Gospel Freedom and
Gender Ideology as well as other matters
– All our welcome to attend
Churchsuite
If you still aren’t signed up on
Churchsuite but would like to be, or have
any questions about it please do not
hesitate to speak to Jon Drayton or call
the office on 0161 428 8050. Thank you
In Touch Extra Page 4 This is the start of ‘Even More In Touch’
Where articles and information we couldn’t fit on the basic printed sheet will be available
We are taking a St Mary's / Upper Room Cafe stall to this year's Picnic in the Park at Abney Hall. The picnic is an an-nual event run by Cheadle Get Connected who run regular community events. We are going to be offering strawberry cream teas with all proceeds going to Chelwood Food Bank.
If you'd like to get involved with planning this event, or if you can help with set up (8:30am onwards), set down (5pm onwards), or would like to come and serve cream teas on the stall for an hour or two between 11-5 then please get in touch with Susannah Overson at [email protected] or call the cafe on 0161 503 3612 for more details
This is a great opportunity to get involved with the local community and help make St Mary's and the cafe more visi-ble in Cheadle. It is also a great follow up to our hugely successful Easter on The Green event and another opportunity to get to know people in our community better. Please come and support this great event, bring your family and friends along, we look forward to seeing you there
**Job Opportunity**
Based in the Support of-fice in Bloom Street, Manchester there is a vacancy for Resettlement Worker to cover a Maternity leave.
For more information go to :
https://www.barnabus-
manchester.org.uk/Pages/FAQs/
Category/job-listings
Applications close 28th June 2019
In Touch Extra Page 5
Tuesday @ Two This week the group met and had some fun and games making happy faces on biscuits. It was a drizzly, rainy day so
this fun activity gave everybody a much needed giggle! If you would like to come along please do, the group meets
every Tuesday—at 2pm in the Moseley Hall. There is a speaker or an activity, refreshments and a great time to share in
fellowship and friendship. If you would like to come along and speak about your hobby or run an activity that you think
our members would enjoy please speak to either Peter Dooley or Brenda Lowe. Thank you.
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Our Worship in the Zoo On Wednesday 5th June Jo, & Liz from the office took Georgia
Davids, Lois Holmes & Georgie Kates to Chester Zoo for a ‘Creation
Celebration’ day, organised by the Chester Diocese.
We began the day gathering around the Sunken Garden—which
houses a fountain titled ‘Noah & the four winds’, an unusual
sculpture! There was a short service with some great adaptations
of songs …
(To the tune of All things bright and beautiful)
Praise God for the animals
the birds and fishes too
all the wonderous creatures
that live here in the zoo.
The lions and the llamas
The leaping kangaroo,
The monkeys and the meerkats
Are playing in the zoo
Praise God…
The zoo gives food and shelter
Brings little ones to birth
Provides a home and future,
For creatures of the earth
Praise God...
Mum & baby Orangutan
in the branches—and us
all saying a prayer for
the Orangutans and
their habitat.
The beautiful Anteater—
we all decided we loved
him although he was
very odd looking—but
then he probably
thought the same about
us. !
Unfortunately the
bears were elusive
but the girls found
the wooden ones to
sit on!
The flamingos were lovely, it
was feeding time but the ducks
all appeared as well trying to
muscle in on the action.
The pretty,
but slightly
moody,
Elephant
Shrew!
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Worship in the Zoo cont….
The giraffes were a big hit with us all, the baby had
recently been born but was inside. This majestic
beast appeared to love the camera.
The Tree Kangaroo was so pretty, with
deep fur—definitely Jo’s favourite. Okapi—stripey bottoms as they
became known!
The chimpanzees were busy grooming each oth-
er and scowling at the visitors.
The meerkats were quite well camouflaged but
whilst we were there a little baby fell out of the
nest (the hole in the wall) and they all gathered
around it to protect it.
The purpose of the day was aimed at encouraging churches to
become Eco Churches. We will be developing this over the
coming months and bringing suggestions to the congregation
of how we can make changes, however small or large, to
protect the environment.
As a church there is a lot we can do in the churchyard to devel-
op and support an eco system for plants and wildlife. We will
start with a free survey of the churchyard by ’Record’ who will
carry out a full free survey and advise what we already have
there and how we can improve.
We have already made some changes in the Upper Room to be
more energy efficient but there is more we can do, and we will
be exploring this further. If you would like to be involved in this
project please contact the office.
There is a course that the Zoo run, which can be done here in
the Upper Room, which will show us how to care for our envi-
ronment effectively, they use very simple devices to attract
wildlife and feed them, such as this insect feeder/home, made
totally out of reclaimed bits of wood and sticks.
Rector: Rob Munro 428 3440 [email protected]
Associate Minister Stan Tomalin 491 6939 [email protected]
Associate (St.Cuths) Mike Newman 428 5212 [email protected] Youth Pastor Luke Blakeley [email protected]
COW Mark Tomlinson 428 8050 [email protected] Operations Jon Drayton 428 8050 [email protected]
Finance Jo Davids 428 8050 [email protected]
PA/Comms Liz Woods 428 8050 [email protected] Administrator Penny Evans 428 8050 [email protected]
On This Week! Note unusual events in Bold
Church Office, The Upper Room,
11 Wilmslow Road, Cheadle, SK8 1DW
www.cheadle.org.uk
Sunday
16th June
Trinity Sunday
8.00am
9.30am
11.15am
2.00pm
5.00pm
6.30pm
8.00pm
No Communion Service until 30 June
Nine-thirty service (Rob Munro)
Communion with Healing (Rob Munro)
Harvest of Nations Outreach in UR
Rooted meet before evening service
Evening Service (Stan Tomalin)
Focus meeting in the Upper Room
Monday
17th June
9.00am
12noon
4.30pm
Staff prayers/meeting in UR
Open Church
Dangerous Boys Bible Study
Tuesday
18th June
9.30am
2.00pm
3.45pm
7.00pm
7.30pm
TESOL lesson 2nd floor UR
Tuesday@2 meeting in UR Hall
Dynamos KS1 meeting
Restored Lives meets in UR Cafe
Christianity Explored Course 2nd floor
Bell Ringing practice in church
Wednesday
19th June
10.00am
12noon
2-4pm
Mustard Seed carers & tots group in UR
Parish Communion at St Cuthbert’s
Africa Trip—Adam Tomalin
Thursday
20th June
8.00am
9.30am
10.00am
Deadline for In Touch content to office
Bible Study & Bright Start crèche in UR
TESOL conversation 2nd floor UR
Friday
21st June
10.30am
12noon
1-3pm
4.00pm
7.00pm
Keep Fit Keep Young in Sports Hall
Open Church
No Limits Friendship group
Quinta arrivals
No Forge meeting due to Quinta
Saturday
22nd June
9.00am
Prayer Meeting in Tower Room in church
Sunday
23rd June
First Sunday
after Trinity
8.00am
9.30am
11.15am
2.00pm
5.00pm
6.30pm
8.00pm
No Communion Service until 30 June
Nine-thirty service (Mel MacLeod)
Morning Prayer (Mel MacLeod)
Harvest of Nations Outreach in UR
No Rooted meeting due to Quinta
Evening Service (Mike Lowe)
No Focus meeting due to Quinta
Next week Sunday 23rd June
Bible readings for next
week (to help us prepare)
Morning Services
tbc
Evening Service
Romans 11:33-12-2
Today’s Bible Readings 8am HC No Service until 30 June
Morning Services - 9.30 & 11.15am
(1 reading only)
Song of Songs 1:1-7 (p678)
Evening Service - 6.30pm
Luke 6:39-49 (p1034)
CLERGY
CHURCH OFFICE
Encourage Your Anger When was the last time you experienced anger? For
most of us, probably not that long ago! Was your
anger ugly? Did you say or do something that you now
regret? Today I want to do something that may sound
slightly strange: I want to encourage your anger.
But only if your anger is going to be about something bigger than you.
Anger, like all things in life, has to begin with God. First, we need to re-
evaluate how we think about the Lord and his anger. Mostly, we
assume that anger is the dark side of God’s character that we need to
keep hidden from the world. But, of course, our heavenly Father
doesn’t have a dark side! John says, “God is light; in him there is no
darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). It’s impossible for there to be anything
evil in God, which means God is both righteous and angry at the very
same time (see Exodus 32:10, 34:6; Deuteronomy 29:28; Psalms 2:12,
30:5; Romans 1:18; and more.)
Anger is one of God’s most beautiful characteristics – in fact, his
anger is a bright hope for the world. Because he is righteously angry,
we can rest assured that everything sin has broken will be restored.
That means we can be angry too. In a world in which nothing
operates as it was intended and where evil often has more immediate
influence than good, it would be wrong for us never to be angry. In a
fallen world, anger can be good, constructive, and essential.
But let’s be very clear here. The Lord’s anger is “Big Kingdom” anger,
always working to right what is wrong, with patience, justice, mercy,
and grace. You and I, on the other hand, will often struggle with “little
kingdom” anger—so often our anger is ‘all about me’.
Between now and eternity, our anger will be a war between God’s will
and ours, between God’s plan and ours, and between God’s
sovereignty and our quest for self-rule. It is a war fought in every
situation, location, and relationship of our life.
You should be angry. The things that make God angry should make
you angry, and thereby spur you into righteous action. But be wary –
your heart will be prone towards anger for the wrong reasons.
Will your anger propel you to be a healer, a restorer, a rescuer, and a
reconciler? Or will your anger leave a legacy of fear, hurt,
disappointment, and division? God offers you the grace to be
righteous and angry at the very same time!
STAN TOMALIN <><
CHILDREN &
YOUTH
FOCUS ON… Tesol Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
TESOL classes for Women started
in The Upper Room eight years
ago as an initiative to bring
together women from different
countries and from different faith
backgrounds to learn English in a
safe and supportive
environment. Classes are
informal, run at three levels of
ability and are taught by a team of
five teachers, most of them
TESOL trained. We work on a
voluntary basis, charging only a
minimal fee to cover costs and
are all Christians. As well as
teaching English we seek to
represent Christ to the women of
Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist
faiths and those of no particular
faith. Some of them are new
Christian converts from a
Muslim background. We meet
during term time on Tuesday
mornings from 9.30 to 11.30 for
teaching and on Thursday
mornings from 10.00 to 11.30 for
Coffee and Conversation.
