Parish Church of St. Matthew Little Lever
A PARISH IN THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER
News
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Weekly News - Pew Sheets, Rota's and News Letters
Weekly pew sheets (containing parish news, baptisms, banns of marriage and information on up and coming events) side persons rota, and the Sunday Club news letter can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format from one of the news sub-page links in the navigation menu to the left or by clicking on the following links: Pew Sheets 2009, Pew Sheets 2010, Side Persons rota or Sunday Club news.
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The over 60's
Meet in Church House at 1:30 every Thursday for a game of Whist or Dominoes and an occasional game of Bingo.
Light refreshments provided, for further information telephone Alice on 01204 574240.
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Church House Bookings Clerk
We are now looking for someone to fill this position. Please contact Fr. John Wiseman if you are interested.
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Sunday School
Our Sunday Club is open to children and young people from the age of 3 years. We need some more dedicated, committed people to become teachers and teaching assistants. If you are interested, please contact either our Sunday Club co-ordinator Jeannett McEwen or Fr. Ian Anthony who will explain all that this entails.
Click the link to read our Sunday Club News Letter. The news letter includes a time table of meetings planned for 2010.
- Request for old photographs of Saint Matthews
Hopefully these will be published on Saint Matthews web site and other publications at a later date. Your photographs will be handled carefully and returned to you. Please contact Mike Hesp on 577077.
Fr. John writes....
Thank you to all who worked so hard quietly behind the scenes in arranging Tuesday evening. The Church looked very beautiful and the buffet in church house was splendid. Thank you to everyone for making it such a memorable occasion. A BIG THANK YOU for the lovely cake, cards and generouse present. May God bless us all in our vocations and ministries, lay and ordained.
God Bless,
Fr. John.
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Now on the Archive Picture Page Click here to go to Archive Pictures
thank you for very kindly forwarding to me your gift towards the work of the Additional Curates society. We pride ourselves in ensuring that every penny
given goes towards providing a priest for one the many poor and populus parishes that we support in England and Wales. I wanted you to know that your gift will make a considerabled difference in so many people's lives, so on their behalf I would also like to thank you.
Please do visit our website at www.additionalcurates.co.uk where you will be able to see for yourself some of the things we are able to do with your money.
Wishing you every blessing.
'Every year we send money to charitable causes from our 'copper collection' each week. We show here a picture of the Bishop of Mashvingo, his wife and members of the Community of the Resurrection.The Bishop of Mashvingo has a diocese in Africa the size of Scotland and only three priests. He is setting up a theological college to train more priests and we hope our donation will help with that.The plight of his diocses came to our attention when the Bishop was attending the recent Lambeth conference.'
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Barrie Gaskell has now left Saint Matthews to return to the hospital chaplaincy in Bolton to continue his training.
Barrie writes,
Just a little note to express my immense gratitude for the whole experience and time of my placement at St. Matthews. Thanks first of all for the lovely gifts I was presented with last Sunday. They are greatly appreciated. Thanks to the congregation and worshipping community at St Matthews, for I have been given a truly Christian welcome. Thanks to Fr John and Fr Ian for all the support, encouragement and opportunities given to me. On reflection this placement has been a truly spiritual experience ......
Many blessings,
Barrie.
Last modified: Monday 18 January 2010
Office Address:
Market Street
Little Lever
Bolton. BL3 1HH
01204 700936