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Parish Office, St. Peter’s Parish Centre, 347 Church Road, Bolton BL1 5RR
Prayer Chain: Ruth 492637 [email protected]
www.stpetersparish.info St Peter’s Halliwell stpetershalliwell HalliwellParish
Parish Office: Open Mon to Fri 9.30am-3pm 0800 954 0781 [email protected]
Revd. Canon Paul Hardingham 848567 [email protected]
Revd. Dave Brae 847038 [email protected]
Revd. Craig Watson 458682 [email protected]
Paul Gray and Elian Winstanley (Wardens) [email protected]
Sarah Saxon (Youth Minister) 07718 0330845 [email protected]
Amanda Blease (Parish Business Manager) 599901 [email protected]
Sam Wolstencroft (CAP Centre Manager) 599903 / 07934 716509 [email protected]
Matthew 11 vs 28-30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Dear God
We pray this week for families where the school summer holidays are just starting. We pray that, although many children have been at home for the past 5 months, the holidays are still a time of rest and relaxation, when the pressure of home schooling ceases and joy in one another’s company and in you can be a priority.
Let's put ourselves into the hands of the Lord, and pray that God will bless us and our families during the wonderful months of summer. May we all help make our home a place of relaxation, joy, love, peace and safety. May we be generous and considerate, not thinking only about ourselves, but helping others enjoy the blessings of summer-time. Lord God, Creator of all things, guide our steps and strengthen our hearts, during these months of summer and holidays. Grant us refreshment of mind and body. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Take time to claim your strength; they are gifts of God. Take time to have fun; it's God's way of teaching you your strengths. Take time to grow yourself; only you can grow you. Take time to trust yourself; God trusts you. Take time to be self-reliant; it is better than being dependent. Take time to share with others; they will bless you, and you will bless them. Take time to have hope, you are a child of God.
Amen
Prayer Contributed by Carolyn Rigby, Barrow Bridge Mission
Welcome to St. Peter’s. We are 4 churches:
St. Peter’s, St. Andrew’s, Barrow Bridge and Smithills Fellowship
One Parish—One Church—One Vision
Sunday 26th July 2020
Church Without Walls - Live streaming of services
You are warmly invited to join us for our service LIVE at 10.30am each Sunday on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube.
Today’s YouTube link is: https://youtu.be/eTGhSv8Xt-8
Click on the ‘Church Live’ image at www.stpetersparish.info to go straight to this service or subscribe to our YouTube channel
at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQWhvQ8JMs5Mw-Y5rEq5Vw
Our service today
Our Curate, Oli Preston, leads his last service for St. Peter’s Parish today. We thank God for the huge contribution he has made to the life of St. Peter’s over these last 3 years, and especially for his work on Johnson Fold, and know he will be missed greatly. We pray for Oli and the family, that the house move goes well and they settle quickly into their new home,
school, nursery and church. We wish him the very best as he starts the next chapter of his ministry, in his new post as Multiply Minister for the Diocese of York, based in Bridlington. Goodbye, Oli! Today we continue our new sermon series on Acts with Acts 4:1-22. As Peter and John stand before the Sanhedrin, how does the Holy Spirit use their witness and what does he want to do in our lives as we seek to honour Jesus?
Leaving gift for Oli, Joanne, Betty and Cayden It is not too late! If you would like to bless them, please send contributions to St. Peter’s Parish Cen-tre, 347 Church Road, Bolton, BL1 5RR (cheques payable to ‘St. Peter’s
Halliwell’) by 31st August. Alternatively, you can make a BACS payment to: A/C number 00030623, sort code 40-52-40. Please remember to use ‘Oli Preston’ as the payment reference. Thank you.
Meet the clergy and staff team: Sarah Saxon
Hello! I am Sarah, and I have been the Youth Minister at St. Peter's for 5 years. I am married to Paul, and we have a one year old daughter.
In what ways has lockdown affected you? I have really missed being able to see and spend time in person with our amazing young people, and the youth team leaders - but have had lots of fun on our online sessions! It's been exhausting working and parenting a toddler at home,
but it has also been incredible to be together and eat together every single day. I have especially missed days hiking in the mountains, but am making up for that now!
What have you learned about yourself during this time? That I can't control very much in this life – and am still on a journey of accepting and embracing that! Also I have been challenged to live a life of more simplicity, such as, making do with one food shop a week and trying to keep one day a week with nothing scheduled in the diary.
Tell us about a film, book or song that has encouraged you during lockdown: ‘Honesty over Silence’ by Patrick Regan - a brilliant book about trusting God through painful times, depression and anxiety. It doesn't provide any answers or a 5 step plan, but just reminds us that God loves us and that it's okay not to be okay.
Lahore Link Pandemic Appeal Christians in Lahore face real challenges and require our help. Following a plague of locusts and the impact of coronavirus, the Christian community are suffering from food shortages as well as illness. Often they find that they do not receive aid from the government and rely on the support of other Christians in time of need. Children are seeing their education curtailed, and Christian schools are on the verge of collapse due to the lack of finance because all Christian schools in Pakistan are fee paying, so in lockdown they receive no funding at all. Manchester Diocese is supporting us in raising funds to help our brothers and sisters who are in need in Lahore Diocese. Is God asking you to help? Go to the homepage of www.stpetersparish.info and scroll down to ‘Manchester - Lahore - Pandemic Appeal’ for more info, and to support this cause.
Prayer for our Mission Partners Our mission partners, here and around the world, continue to need our prayers and support at this challenging time. Give thanks that all our mission partners are in good health in body, mind and spirit, and ask God to continue to provide for them in these interesting times. Thank you. An update and more details will follow next week.
Face Coverings In line with the latest Church of England guidance, we now strongly advise that face coverings are worn by all those attending Sunday Services or praying in church, remembering that they are mainly intended to protect other people, not the wearer, from Covid-19 and that they are not a replacement for physical distancing and regular hand washing.
It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Tony Rea and Norman Hindley have passed away. Please keep Barbara and Ruby and all their families and friends in your prayers at this difficult time.
An update on the re-opening of our church buildings As the government continue to relax many of the coronavirus restrictions in place (including regarding the re-opening of church buildings), we remind you that St. Peter’s Halliwell also operates under the Church of England and Manchester Diocese guidelines. These require the completion of risk assessments for each of our church buildings before we can consider re-opening (including assessing the numbers of people we can safely accommodate within services/other activities in each building). The safety of our church family and visitors to our buildings remains our absolute priority. Please note, these assessments are being carried out across our Parish as the initial step in a carefully formatted re-opening process for our buildings.
Our parish live-streamed service continues on Sunday mornings at 10.30am and will do so for the foreseeable future. Our said service of Evening Prayer (with organ music, no singing) continues to be held at 4pm in St. Peter’s Church each Sunday. A copy of the Risk Assessment for the 4pm service (approved by PCC) is available on our website. Only a very limited number of people are allowed in the building due to social distancing regulations and ensuring that the building is COVID-19 secure. Therefore, booking in advance is essential for Evening Prayer so please book on-line at www.stpetersparish.info/book but, if you can’t get access to the internet, contact the office ([email protected] or 0800 954 0781).
During the summer break there will be the opportunity to meet for an informal drink and chat for those that would like to. On Thursdays 30th July, 6th and 13th August you are invited by Steph Mawhinney to drop in to 146a Markland Hill Lane, BL1 5NZ for a (socially distanced) brew in the garden - sheltering in the open garage if necessary! - between 2pm - 3pm. All are welcome.
Individual private prayer These sessions on Wednesday evenings, 7.30—9pm in St. Peter’s Church, will be taking a break during August. The last session before the break is on Wednesday 29th July. All are welcome.
