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The God Spot at Friday night youth club is proving an effective way of engaging youngsters with Christianity.

New midweek rambles for easy-going walkers will start in April. Get some exercise and explore the countryside.

One Iranian asylum seeker's testimony given to St. Mary's recently is an inspirational example of God at work.

Sunday evening's service on 26 January signalled the launch of a new initiative to see All Saints' grow in prayerfulness. It will be given impetus in June when the new Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, joins us for a full weekend of events.

Throughout 2014, on the fourth Sunday of each month, our 6.30pm service will be an Ablaze event, focusing on prayer. It is the culmination of discussions in the Ministry Development Team (MDT) which in turn flowed from a Diocesan consultation on church growth last November.

There, it was said that the one common denominator for all the growing churches in the region was that they specifically prayed that they would grow. This thinking fed into our Verse for the Year from Ephesians 6:16 and identification of the key priority for 2014 - to grow in prayerfulness.

Our MDT's prayer is that The Lord will

bless All Saints' so that we will:

• grow in faith• grow in numbers• grow in Christlike character, including love and joy• grow in our understanding of the Bible

Bishop Paul's visit will be on the weekend of 21-22 June, and possibly on the Friday evening of 20 June. The format has still to be decided, but it is hoped for some input from the Bishop about the direction All Saints' should be taking.

Early planning for the weekend points to a mixture of worship, relaxation, teaching, strengthening relationships - and good fun. John Lambert says "Particularly, we would like to focus on prayer and sharing our faith, which were the two areas identified as being in need of particular reinforcement as we prepare the ground for growth in our church."

Bill Cockcroft.

Prayer the priority as

Bishop's visit confirmed

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At the December PCC meeting it was agreed to make permanent the provisional arrangement for Jan Peters’ working hours. Her contract has been upgraded from 20 hours to 28 hours per week. At the same time, given the departure of Tim Wye-Williams, Kathryn Belmont’s working hours were increased from 20 to 35 hours per week. Both changes take effect from the beginning of this year. The PCC, on behalf of the whole church, is grateful to God for two such gifted and dedicated staff team members.

Three All Saints' members, Sue Ireland, Anna Levin and Chris Vass, have accepted an invitation to join our Ministry Development Team, the body which sets the spiritual direction of the church. The other lay members are John Belmont, Linda Emerton, Gillian Davison and Chris Peters, together with John Lambert.

Judith Simpson, Chief Executive, has written thanking All Saints' for its 'generous donation' of £200 to the Daisy Chain organisation. She says the donation will directly benefit the children and families they support, helping to continue their work and develop new and innovative ways to deliver first-class services to those affected by autism.

Advance notice: This year's Annual Parochial Church Meeting (our AGM) will be held at a joint 10am service on Sunday 27 April. This is the time to elect PCC members and Churchwardens for the coming year, and to report on how All Saints' has been running for the past year.

As we begin the year with an emphasis on prayer, here are some of my favourite quotes on prayer from Christians far and wide. Which ones connect most with you? “When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.” John Bunyan

“Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” John Chapman

“If a matter is not important enough to pray about, then it is not serious enough to worry about.” James Gibbons

“We can all sympathise with the desperate but doomed prayer of the schoolboy who was coming out of his exam and was heard to pray, ‘Oh, God, please make Paris the capital of Turkey!’ There are some things that even God can’t answer!” Nicky Gumbel

“Don’t worry about praying over small things; with God everything is small.” R.T. Kendall

“If your day is hemmed with prayer it is less likely to unravel.” J. John

“When I work, I work. When I pray, God works.” Bill Hybels

"Anyone can pray in crisis. Show me someone who will earnestly pray without a crisis and I will show you someone who is ready if one comes." Bill Johnson “God lives in the eternal present; therefore he has all eternity to answer the split second prayer of a driver who is about to crash.” Clifford Longley

“Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on you.” Martin Luther

“We shall need eternity to thank God for all the prayers he didn’t answer.” Mark Oakley

“Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as all-sufficient.” John Piper “I try to listen to the Lord as I walk and to hear what he is saying before I pray for people – that’s how it works.” Jackie Pullinger

“Prayer is the place where burdens change shoulders.” Source Unknown

“When I pray coincidences happen. And when I stop praying, the coincidences stop.” William Temple

Interviewer: “So what do you say to the good Lord when you pray?” Mother Teresa: “Nothing. I listen to him.” Interviewer: “I see. And what does he say to you then?” Mother Teresa: “Nothing. He listens to me.”

John Lambert.

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Talk about prayer

Birthdays!11 February Anna Wheeldon Age: 1112 February Francis Bates Age: 7

We wish you all a very happy birthday!

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Youth pastor Tim Wye-Williams' final Sunday at All Saints' was marked by presentations on behalf of a very grateful congregation. Tim now moves on to join Youth for Christ on what Sylvia Wilson has called 'a huge step of faith' - resourcing youth pastors in the Stockton area.

Presentations were made on behalf of church members by fellow youth pastor Kathryn Belmont, who warmly thanked Tim for his dedicated work with young people at All Saints' over the past six years and wished him well in his future role. Along with a generous food hamper, Tim was presented with a cash gift, an attractive book compilation of goodwill messages and a photo book of memories from the older girls he has pastored.

Tim is pictured cutting the first slice of a bumper 'thank-you' celebratory iced cake made by Jennifer Burgess - strikingly decorated using photo-images reflecting Tim's work at All Saints'.

Parish rationalisation is bringing change to a second cluster of churches in Stockton Deanery. On New Year's Day, the five former parishes of Great Stainton, Bishopton, Redmarshall, Stillington and Grindon became a new united parish.

It will be known as the Stockton Country Parish, and a meeting to appoint the Parochial Church Council (PCC), Deanery Synod representatives and churchwardens will be held on 3 February at St. Cuthbert's, Redmarshall. The new PCC will have 12 ordinary members, three Deanery Synod representatives (instead of ten between the old parishes) and there will be five churchwardens.

Under the new set-up, there will be Congregational Committees to look after day-to-day local business, but all the main responsibilities will rest with the joint PCC, working from just one combined electoral roll.

With this move towards making the church more strategically focused, David Brooke ceases to be Rector of five parishes and becomes the Rector of just one. He explained that the point of it all is better working together for mission and ministry. They would be working hard to keep that the priority. He warned, however, that there would be lots to address administratively and financially in the process of merging the five parishes.Speaking in his other capacity of Area Dean, David

told In Touch "I'm delighted that the people of the country parishes have taken this big step. They have worked more and more closely together over the nine years I have been Rector, and for a long time before that. We have had a Co-ordination Group working on strategy for a number of years, and we've learned to trust, love and support each other. This takes things to the next level as we pool our resources and our energies."

Last year, under the Deanery Development Plan, a similar rationalisation was agreed in Billingham where one new parish has been created and legally commissioned out of the original four Billingham churches, plus Wolviston Parish. The new Team Rector here will be Rev. Laura McWilliams, with Rev. Bill Braviner as Team Vicar. They were licensed together by the Bishop of Jarrow on 28 January.

While the process of forming the Stockton Country Parish was on-going, discussions about how the parishes of St. Peters, All Saints', Egglescliffe, Long Newton, Elton, Holy Trinity with St. Marks and the country parishes might work more closely together remained on hold. Now the new parish is formed, those discussions will resume, first with a meeting of the parish representatives on 12 February and then with a meeting of PCCs at a date to be agreed in March.

Five into one solution for country parishes

Farewell Sunday signals Tim's 'huge step of faith'

David Brooke, Area Dean

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Dates have now been set for a programme of midweek walks from All Saints', exploring easy terrain in and around the Tees Valley.

Allowing for breaks during school holidays, the rambles will be held weekly on a Wednesday starting or meeting at 10.30am. The first group of five walks will run from April 23 to May 21 inclusive and the second group of eight walks will run from June 4 to July 23 inclusive.

These short, low-level walks will be following recognised tracks or metalled footpaths over distances of up to six kilometres (four miles) and should be completed in two to two-and-a-half hours.

No heavy-duty or specialist walking gear will be needed - simply stout boots or shoes (even wellingtons if comfortable), together with a warm, water-resistant coat.

Bill Cockcroft.

Spring launch for mid-week rambles

Winter sunshine invites a stroll along the disused railway line near Hartburn

Friday nights at All Saints' are a hive of activity as youth from across Eaglescliffe come to enjoy a few hours of games, food, music and chat.

The Youth Club event (previously called 360) is run by Youth Pastor Kathryn Belmont and a team of helpers who co-ordinate the evening's activities and interact with the people who attend. Many of the young people who do come do not attend All Saints', or any other church, and at times they can be a challenge for the leaders to interact with.

However, the event has opened up a new opportunity to share a little something of God with these often un-churched teenagers through a five-minute slot which is a mandatory part of each Friday night for everyone who attends.

During this interlude to the regular activities, one of the leaders shares a relaxed short talk on a particular subject which is relevant to the lives of the attendees in the hope of teaching them something of God's character, Christianity, or encouraging them to live better lives.

Kathryn Belmont told us: "Initially we talked to them about the Ten Commandments (one per week in a series). We have also worked through the Youth Alpha themes (shortened dramatically!) and at the end of last term we asked them to give us their questions about God/Christianity and we tried our best to answer some of them! Now we are working through the Fruits of the Spirit."

The natural assumption would be that being forced to listen to such a talk in amongst all of the fun of the event would put off some of the youth, or at best be put up with through gritted teeth. Yet this is rarely the case, with the talks consistently getting their attention and sparking further questions. Kathryn states: "We have now decided to do this section in the middle of Youth Club (it used to be right at the end of the night) in case any of the young people have any questions about what we say or are interested to know more, in which case they can come and chat to us during the remainder of the night." She adds "The heart of it really is to introduce them to God in a really relaxed environment and we would love people's prayer that God could meet with the young people through this time - lots of them might never have a chance to hear the gospel elsewhere so it is an important part of what we do."

At a recent PCC meeting, this slot was described by one member as "One of the youth highlights of the previous year", and Kathryn Belmont is naturally thrilled to have this opportunity to speak about God to those who would otherwise have very little contact with Christianity. She comments: "We see the Youth Club on Friday nights as the first place a lot of young people might enter our Church and so we want to very simply share a bit of our faith with them and tell them a bit about why we do what we do here."

Matt Falcus.

Talking God on a Friday night is 'youth highlight'

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Canon Trevor Beeson’s new book, Priests and Politics (available in All Saints’ Library), is the sixth in a series of histories of the Church of England.

Since individuals live in communities, the Church is bound to be involved in politics, so argues the author.

But, since the fetish for individual choice and individual freedom is weakening communities, many people seem to be losing faith in both politics and the Church. To those of us who belong to a thriving Church community and still have faith in civic society, there is interest in this history.

The book traces the interrelationship of the title from 1559, when the Pope lost the power to appoint English bishops, until the present day. Of particular interest to us at All Saints’ are two chapters:

Chapter 5 deals with the history of the Durham miners and their Bishops. About half of the Durham coalfield was owned by the Church, which was therefore the chief single beneficiary locally of the industrial revolution, with all the inequality and suffering, as well as the wealth which that brought. The various 19th century Bishops of Durham were mostly highly scholarly, but of varying ability in approaching the acute social problems of their diocese. In the post-WW2 era, Ian Ramsey (after whom the school is named) made a great impact, though when appointed he knew little of the social and economic problems of the North East. To remedy this he appointed Margaret Kane, an experienced industrial missioner, to be his adviser. Bishops David Jenkins and John Habgood later

played important roles in their different ways.

Chapter 17 traces the story of industrial mission, in which the Teesside Industrial Mission, under the Revd. Bill Wright, featured centrally, following earlier work in Sheffield. TIM eventually had an ecumenical team of 11 chaplains, including a professional theologian, still Margaret Kane. In my recollection in ICI, the chaplains were often invited to reflect, even mediate, on discussions between confident management and powerful Union leaders. This was undoubtedly valuable work, and appropriate for the Church to undertake, but was it Christian Mission? Trevor Beeson surmises that the work depended on the support of strong company management who, in times of economic downturn, might not take kindly to prophetic criticism.

Workplace circumstances are very different today and the Dioceses locally feel that their resources for mission are best directed through, if not in, the churches. However, Tees Valley Ministry continues ecumenical chaplaincy and pastoral care in the workplace and is seeking to expand through voluntary chaplains. Ministry has replaced Mission in the title, wisely in my view, but the work is still valued by many workers.

Jeremy Atkinson.

Priests and Politics -book review

Beeson's Stockton LinkTrevor Beeson served part of his early ministry in Stockton Deanery as Priest-in-Charge of St. Chad's Church, Roseworth, an estate developed in the early 1950s as part of the social housing expansion for northern Stockton. Among a number of initiatives, he launched and edited the Roseworth Clarion which became a strong voice for the community on local issues of the day. Trevor went on to become Dean of Winchester.

As a testimony to God’s grace and provision I am pleased to inform the church that following the bleak forecast in Q’4 2013 our prayers have been answered.

Indications were that we were heading for a £14,000 deficit for 2013 accounts against a budgeted deficit of £6,000. By God’s providence and your generosity, that deficit will be closer to £9,000. This is indeed a wonderful response to prayer and I would like to thank all who have heard the Lord’s prompting and acted upon it to address this issue.

He is indeed Jehovah Jireh (God our Provider). That said it would be a mistake to think we are financially well placed for 2014. Our regular income has not yet risen sufficiently to sustain growth.

The Lord’s work still presses us and remains a challenge in our endeavours to minister to our community.Please continue to seek the Lord for His will and your contribution to All Saints'.

Terry Doyle.

Financial Update

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Do you have any up-to-date suitable study material sitting on your shelves which could be used by a small group? Would you be willing to lend it out?

If you have answered yes twice, then please get in touch with David or Linda Emerton. We will then add your name and DVD details to a lenders list for the use of small groups at All Saints'. Are you worried that your DVD might not return to you? If yes again then don’t be, because we as small group co-ordinators will chase it up for you if the borrowers are slow to return it.

Please contact either of us on:david.emerton1@btinternet.com & linda.emerton1@btinternet.com

Any DVDs to lend?

Samuel Main, son of Stuart and Nichola, shared his favourite Bible story during the 10.30am Engage service on 19 January. The passage, from 1 Kings 18, was the focus for the sermon on praying with authority. Here you can read what Samuel shared in his own words:

Elijah and the prophets of Baal is my favourite Bible story because it shows God's amazing power.

Elijah knows God will answer his prayer and knows the amazing power of God so makes the wood as wet as it can be to make it difficult to light so that everyone else knows God's power as well.

God doesn't just start a fire and cook the animal. He sends a huge fire that burns the animal, burns the wood, dries up the water and burns the ground.

And all this power is an answer to a simple prayer by just one man. There were loads of prophets of Baal and they all prayed, danced, sang but their prayers weren't answered.

The story shows us we can pray simple prayers but we know they can be answered with amazing power by the real God who loves us. He can use the same amazing power that helped Elijah to help us.

It is a wonderful book to read with young children or for older children to read themselves.

This is the quote from the back of the book:The world tells children, 'You're

special if....you have the brains, the looks, the talent'.God tells them, 'You're special just because. No qualifications necessary.'

The book explains this truth in a lovely way that any child will understand and every child (and adult) needs to hear. It is so important that we help our children to understand this so that they can face the world every day knowing God loves them no matter what and that they are special.

We bought this when Grace was tiny, and we have read it to her and Evie as they have grown up. I would certainly recommend it to others.

My favourite quote from the book is " Remember, you are special because I made you, and I don't make mistakes".

Shiromi Davison.

This month Shiromi Davison writes a review of a book for children entitled You Are Special, which she recommends. Samuel Main also shares his favourite Bible story...

You Are Specialby Max Lucado

My favourite Bible story

STOP PRESS!

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Doris Ward 1915-2013An AppreciationDoris was one of the first people Brian and I met after moving into Dunottar Avenue in December 1964. As soon as we took our 6-month old son to All Saints' and parked the pram at the back Doris welcomed us with open arms. When she discovered my parents had called me Gillian Margaret I became her adopted daughter as she said if either of her sons had been a girl she would have called them that! So I was taken under her wing.

She introduced me to Mothers' Union which met in the front half of Church House and the pram was pushed up the steps and parked in front of the huge fireplace in the front room to attend meetings. As our children grew up and were welcomed into Doris and Tom’s home she became known to them as ‘Auntie Doris’. She looked after them many a time and loved it. She was very hospitable and wouldn’t like you leaving without having had a cup of tea and a cake. Doris came to Eaglescliffe with her husband Tom around 1936 when they moved from Thornley for Tom to work at I.C.I. Being churchgoers in Thornley they soon became members of All Saints’ congregation. Doris was a great organiser and was involved in almost all of the activities of All Saints' at one time or another. She and her family were very involved in raising money for the building and furnishing of the Sanctuary part of the church and the bell tower which were built in 1959, and were always her pride and joy. At that time an annual bazaar was held to raise funds and Doris always made goods for several stalls and had a team of people with her to run the catering side of it, raising huge sums. She and her family were all in the choir when a robed choir sang morning and evening services and eventually recruited all our family to join. She was a member of the PCC for many years, and also ran the All Saints’ branch of the Mothers' Union until it closed. She arranged flowers on many occasions. She welcomed new people to church and even encouraged anyone she met outside to come along. She was Electoral Roll Officer for many years and organised Christian Aid collections with great efficiency from time immemorial! She was, in fact, wholeheartedly committed to All Saints’ Church and supported every aspect as much as she could. She was a great knitter and made hundreds of teddy bears to be given to children for company while they were in hospital. She also found time to take on a job doing market research for many years, which she revelled in as she loved shopping. Her family was always very

important to Doris and despite what she had to do at church, meals were always ready when needed; her baking was legendary. After her mother died she used to do a mega-bake for her father and take it up to Thornley once a week to keep him supplied. When grandchildren arrived she was delighted and proudly kept us all informed about their progress. She was a bundle of energy, on the go all day and never seemed to get tired. After living life with so much energy Doris took badly to being incapacitated and not being able to get to church. At last, though, she had to agree to leave Eaglescliffe and go to live in a home nearer her sons. She died at the home in Kettering on 16 December, 2013 aged 98. With so many years of dedicated service to God and All Saints’ it is fitting to remember Doris with gratitude for all that she gave us and to reflect that she is the last of an era, a group of people including the Wards, the Crooks, the Holts, the Lumleys and many more, who have handed over the work to those of us who now regard All Saints’ as our Church. Gill Wake.

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All Saints' Walkers Group hold regular walks in the countryside and local

area. It is a great way to spend time getting to know members of the church better and getting some exercise. Walks of different lengths are on offer. Most walks meet at All Saints', and lifts can be provided.

All are welcome to come along. Here's the schedule until June: FebruarySaturday 8, 9.30am Long led by Jim RogersSunday 23, 12.30pm Short led by John Littlehailes

MarchSaturday 8, 9.30am Long led by Margaret & Dave21-23, Walkers Weekend

AprilSaturday 5, 9.30am Long led by John Littlehailes Sunday 13, 12.30pm Short led by Bruce Merrick Saturday 26, 9.30am Long led by Peter Ireland

MaySunday 11, 12.30pm Short led by Bryan MossSaturday 24, 9.30am Long led by Geoff Mankin

JuneSunday 8, 12.30pm Short led by Jim RogersSaturday 21, 9.30pm Long led by Margaret & Dave

Short walks: between 4 and 6 miles. Long walks: between 7 and 10 miles.

The Walkers - February to June walks

In December, we sadly lost Dee Palmer Jones to leukaemia. For the funeral, John Taylor was asked

to draw together how the congregation of St. Mary’s would want to remember her. So here is a summary of what they wrote.

Well, first of all Dee was a strong woman, beautiful, intelligent, courageous, a natural leader. Formidable you might think, but approachable and modest. Serious, but full of fun and laughter. Innovative and keen for the church to keep moving forward. She obviously loved children, seen not just in her relationship with her grandchildren but in what she did with the school children in Godzone.

Dee was seen as having great faith in God and in prayer. She had a servant heart, and as well as her leadership roles she wasn’t afraid to roll her sleeves up and get things done. She cooked the most amazing pannacotta; in fact her cuisine was legendary as testified by all who were lucky enough to be invited for a meal. Shortly before being diagnosed with leukaemia, Dee embarked on a series of MacMillan meals to raise funds for this charity very close to her heart and although unable

to complete her planned sequence of meals the treasured memory remains of a wonderful meal shared among friends.

People found her preaching and leading helpful, even inspirational. Dee could always find the right words to connect her congregation with her message, especially in her very last sermon at St Mary’s when she preached on “Justified by faith alone” which drew an immediate response from the audience and prompted the publication of “Our Great Salvation” booklet.

But what has particularly struck the congregation is the relationship Dee had with people. People saw her as a sister, a dear friend, a mentor, a role model. On an individual basis she was understanding. She was there for people when she was needed. When people needed support, or needed a friend, Dee was there. Or if they needed gentle encouragement to move on in their faith, she was good at that too.

We loved Dee, and we miss her dreadfully. But hopefully our memories of Dee will continue to be an inspiration to us as life goes on without her.

Dee’s daughter, Antonia, kept a blog throughout Dee’s illness and this proved to be very helpful to many people. If you would like to read the blog, please visit http://antoniapj.wordpress.com/ and feel free to pass this on to others who may be going through similar difficulties.

Dee Palmer-JonesAn Appreciation

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On any given Sunday at Stockton Parish Church you will find up to 13 nationalities represented in its congregation. Among them will be two Iranian asylum seekers, Mehdi and Ali-reza. Recently, Rob Bailey took the two men along to a Sunday service at St. Mary's under the 'Ambassador Sunday' scheme. This is where like-minded churches share experiences across denominational boundaries as a way of growing Christian unity. Here is Mehdi's testimony as he told it that Sunday.

Before I start I want to apologize because I’m not a good speaker. In fact my English is not good enough to testify. Because my story is too long I will try to explain briefly.

I was born in a family of Muslim religion. Although my family was religious I had no interest in religion. I began to study and could get academic qualifications, with the best grades one after another. After getting a degree I began to work. I worked hard for ten years to finally become the Pharmacy manager. Overall I had a good life but I was always feeling an emptiness in my life. Because I felt that my success is not derived from my religion. These thoughts were always bothering me.

But one day my girlfriend and I went to a restaurant for dinner when we were arrested by Basij forces. We were so annoyed that they caused our relationship to be cut.

After that incident not only no interest in religion but I was disgusted. I never did like to talk with someone about religion. After a while I was escaping religion - not Islam but all religion, because I thought that all religions are the same. But this was only a false prejudice because I’ve never experienced other religion and I hadn’t enough knowledge.

There was a store employee called Mohsen. He was very kind and patient person, and after a year we were very close together and he knew what had happened to me. One day my friend decided to invite me to a place, but I didn’t have any information about what events are going to happen. I accepted invitation because I trusted him. I never dreamed that anything ever happened.

It was the strangest day of my life, also the best day of my life. Some people who I didn’t even know then were celebrating a birthday. A few moments later I realized that this was a house church. My mind changed a bit by seeing all kindness and friendship and the words that the priest said.

As I’ve told before I think the seeds of faith were planted in me that day. They were looking after me about five months, answering my questions, and finally the seed sprouted and I decide to get baptized. I experienced a rebirth that Jesus had spoken to Nicodemus.

Everything was going well and I was growing, then the group was discovered. All members of the group were arrested; I would escape.

Now imagine that the newest member of group who is a young seedling is alone with all sorts of problems. What could I do? I relied on my faith!

Kath Snowdon, who heard Mehdi's story, writes: This young man arrived in England seven months ago and found himself in Stockton. He loves it here and believes God has put him here to help his fellow Iranians. He learned how to write English at university in Iran, but not how to speak it properly; he has done this in Stockton!

Iranian asylum-seeker's hazardous journey in the Christian faith

On Sunday, 23 January, special prayers were said at a number of Teesside churches, including All Saints', after word came through that an Iranian, Hamed Vaziri, 27, had been stabbed to death at his terraced home in Middlesbrough. Hamed was a member of Jubilee Church, in Middlesbrough, but had also joined the Wednesday discipleship meetings and the Thursday evening Iranian group at Stockton Parish Church. A local man later appeared at Teesside Magistrates Court charged with his murder.

Please continue to pray for the growing Iranian Christian community in Teesside and for Hamed’s family, some of whom live in this country and some of whom remain in Iran.

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St. Mary's Services

Sunday 2 February10.30am - Holy Communion by extension

Sunday 9 February10.30am - Service of the Word

Sunday 16 February10.30am - Holy Communion

Sunday 23 February10.30am - Service of the Word

Wednesday 5 March - Ash Wednesday7.30pm - Choral Service

Did you know?All of our rotas and service information are available on our websites:www.allsaints-church.netwww.stmaryslongnewton.co.uk

All Saints' Services

Sunday 2 February9am - Holy Communion10.30am - Worship, Word & Ministry

Sunday 9 February9am - Holy Communion10.30am - Service of the Word3.30pm - Messy Church6.30pm - Refresh Youth Service

Sunday 16 February9am - Service of the Word10.30am - Engage6.30pm - The Source

Sunday 23 February9am - Holy Communion, Choral10.30am - Holy Communion6.30pm - Ablaze Prayer

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays9am - Morning PrayerWednesdays9.30am - Holy Communion

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Dates for your diary - February

Monday 3 February 7.30pm All Saints' Standing CommitteeSaturday 8 February 12pm Doris Ward Memorial Service, All Saints'Monday 10 February 7.30pm 3GTuesday 11 February 11.30am Tuesday Lunch Club, All Saints'Wednesday 12 February 7.30pm All Saints' MDTMonday 17 February 7.30pm All Saints' PCCSaturday 22 February 11am Bishop Paul Enthroned, Durham CathedralMonday 24 February 7.30pm 3G