St Mary's & St Luke's Church at Home
Resourcing your faith at home…
Click below to watch Live on a Sunday or to watch again at any time
After church tea & coffee will be on Zoom from around 11:45am
Come and join us virtually, it would be lovely to see each other again.
Zoom Meeting Link
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75021313429
Meeting ID: 750 2131 3429
Once again, Roots on the Web have made their resources available to us for free.
For use at home this week
All Resources
Resources for adults
Resources for Children & Young People
St Mary’s has been open for Private Prayer for a few weeks now. We have the correct measures in place that allow us to offer you a safe place to spend some time in private prayer. It has been fantastic to see people face to face over the past three weeks and to have a ‘distanced’ chat with them! Please do come in confidence if you would like to.
Public Worship
The PCC unanimously agreed to apply to Bishop Keith for the dispensation of Canons B11 & B14 for August on the grounds of it being unsafe to open for Public Worship until better measures can be put in place to mitigate risk. This is mainly to do with the size and shape of both churches and the difficulty in maintaining 2m physical distancing. The application was duly granted by Bishop Keith (you can see a copy of his email here), so St Mary’s or St Luke’s will not reopen for Public worship until at least the 1st Sunday of September. The guidance for the legal side of not reopening for Public Worship and the dispensation is explained in this Guidance from the Church of England.
In the meantime, we will continue to offer Private Prayer sessions at St Mary’s and stream our services through July and August. I know not reopening in August will be disappointing for some people, but we have to consider the safety of people entering a very restricted space.
With all God’s blessings, Revd Mike.
Here are the dates/times for Private Prayer until the end of August – please note that the Church of England ‘Strongly advises’ the use of a face mask in church. If you are able to wear one please do so out of consideration to others.
Face covering Update: from 8 August Face Coverings are mandatory by law in church buildings unless you have an exemption.
Through 15 minute sessions explore famous characters and events that form The Greatest Story Ever and discover how we can be part of it today. Simple to run. Fun. Free. No prior knowledge required. This family devotional course mixes online content (videos, readings, discussion) and printed cards to form a colourful learning experience in your own home.
Click here to view the website: https://thegreateststoryever.org
This is a great resource for families to keep their children’s faith alive at this time.
Faith at Home is a national campaign that builds on the work of Growing Faith and Everyday Faith to support the faith development and pastoral care of children and young people.
This is a fantastic free resource which we’ve used for some of the Midweek Get Togethers and is great for personal use to discover more about the books of the bible. Please take a look at the video and click here to find out more.
