St. Mary’s Re-opens for Public Worship
Following advice from the Government and the Church of England, St.Mary’s has re-opened all our services, namely Communion on Sundays at 8am, and on Wednesdays at 10 am. Services are also currently continuing on Sundays on Zoom at 10 am. (Please contact stmarysofficesankey@gmail.com for further details). Due to the need for 2 metres social distancing, numbers will be limited to 20 people per service on a first come, first served basis. So come early if you want to be guaranteed a seat!
It has also been decided to re-open our Sunday 10 am service each week. Numbers will be limited to 30 (including using the balcony if needed) and you will need to register for the service by noon on the Thursday before (please contact Roxy Jones at jonesoxana@yahoo.co.uk or 07736 585316) to secure a place. If more people wish to attend than spaces available, those unable to attend will be offered a first refusal for the following Sunday’s service.
You will expected to sanitise your hands on entering the building. Please wear a (clean) face covering to church and for the whole of the service – these are now mandatory. Communion will only be available in one kind (bread or wafers) at present and singing will not be taking place.
Funerals, weddings and baptisms are now also taking place. Please visit our ‘life events’ page for further details.
I look forward to welcoming you (back) to St.Mary’s, though please do not attend church if you currently have symptoms of coronavirus.
JeremyTear
Pioneer Team Rector
28 September 2020
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Team Memorial Service
Sunday 1 November at 3.00 p.m. on Zoom
Our annual opportunity to remember our loved ones before God, to which we invite the families of those we have taken funeral services for during the past year.
If you would like to attend, please contact the office for the zoom link at stmarysofficesankey@gmail.com
Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 8 November
We will be having our 8 am service of Holy Communion in the church building as usual.
Our main act of Remembrance will be at 10.30 a.m. and this will be on zoom and in the church building
If you would like to be sent the link for our zoom service, please contact stmarysofficesankey@gmail.com
Our service in the church building will be limited to 30 people. If you would like to attend, please register with Roxy Jones at jonesoxana@yahoo.co.uk
Bookings will open on Monday 2 November and close at midday on Thursday 5 November
CAN YOU HELP
We are still looking for a new churchwarden.
Click on the link below for a description of the role/task. If you are interested contact Jeremy or Lynn via stmarysofficesankey@gmail.com
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
18th SUNDAY
OF TRINITY
HARVEST
SUNDAY
Prayer for the Current Coronavirus Crisis
Keep us, good Lord,
under the shadow of your mercy
in this time of uncertainty and distress.
Sustain and support the anxious and fearful,
and lift up all who are brought low;
that we may rejoice in your comfort
knowing that nothing can separate us from your love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
At St.Mary’s we have a daily cycle of prayer so that all the streets in the parish are prayed for each month,
alongside a daily topic for prayer. Please click on the link below for the prayer cycle’
OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE
SERVICES and TIMES
8:00am – Holy Communion
10:00am 1st Sunday of the Month – All Age Worship
10:00am 2nd Sunday of the Month – Holy Communion
10:00am 3rd Sunday of the Month – Morning Worship
10:00am 4th and 5th Sundays of the Month – Holy Communion
Every Wednesday 10:00am – Holy Communion
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Jeremy Tear
(Pioneer Team Vicar)
Jeremy was licensed as Team Vicar in September 2015 and became the Team Rector of the four churches in West Warrington in July 2017. Ordained in Chester Diocese, Jeremy has over 20 years experience of parish ministry. He was a football club chaplain for 10 years and supports Arsenal!
He is married and has two teenage children. He is also a trustee of Sabeel-Kairos , a small Christian human rights charity promoting a just peace in Israel-Palestine.
Lynn Parish
(Church Warden)
Lynn Parish has lived in Warrington for over 30 years and moved 4 years ago to Great Sankey with her husband. She loves music, playing the guitar, gardening, guinea pigs and Girlguiding. She is a volunteer with local Warrington, Halton & St Helens Samaritans and a Traidcraft representative buying and supporting third world products for over 40 years.
She retired early 2018 from being an Ofsted registered childminder and was elected churchwarden at St Mary’s 2017.
Ian Knight
(Assistant Church Warden)
Ian was appointed assistant churchwarden in 2017.
He has been a member of St.Mary’s since 1991 and is married to Frances, one of our church organists.
Ian attends the midweek and Sunday 8am services.
Janet Kerswell is also an assistant churchwarden at St Mary’s
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ST Mary's Church of England
Liverpool Road, Great Sankey,
Warrington WA5 1RE