Author: Chris Chorlton

THE TIMINGS ON THIS PAGE ARE NOW OBSOLETE DUE TO LOCKDOWN 2 – New Details are at this page

As you know we were fully prepared for our Annual Parochial Church Meeting before the Lockdown  – this information was shared in April, but here it is again to refresh your memory.

Documents

Our Report this year is in 2 parts.  A short ‘At a Glance’ letter that is 2 sides of A4.  You can read or download that here.  Farsi version also available. –   فارسی
The main Trustees report is far more comprehensive – you can read that here.

Videos

If you remember we did a recap of the year and explained a few changes back in April – here is a reminder of those videos if you’ve forgotten.

Recap of 2019

Parish Lens Test

Parish Teams

Elections

Election forms were at the back of our churches for a couple of weeks before Lockdown, they are still at St Philip’s – if you didn’t get one you can download them and email them back to Joanna Allan – PCC Secretary

Deanery Synod Rep – Download

Churchwarden – Download

PCC Member – Download

Timings

We hope you can join us live at our APCM meeting which will look like this

10am Prayer, Reading and Talk from Ephesians 3
10.30am Election of Wardens Meeting
10.45am APCM begins
We will end with a short communion and be finished by 1pm

 

Technology

We plan to livestream to Youtube the 10 – 10.30am section only that Sunday.
The Meeting itself will be on Zoom and accessible from this link:
https://zoom.us/j/91810224455?pwd=eEF2M0lPcjk1eDRqaDlBaU5zbnViQT09 Meeting ID: 918 1022 4455 Passcode: 210824

You can also dial in using this phone number
02034815237 Meeting ID: 918 1022 4455 Passcode: 210824

We aim to get as many people at this important meeting, please do not hesitate to ask if you have any technical difficulties.

Sunday holds quite a normal experience this week.  Nothing different from last week, no time changes for the service ….. EXCEPT that the clocks go back so unless you change them you’ll be early!
Which will be great because at 10am we continue with our new Prayer Meeting before the service. 

Please join us if you can – we want to lift our service to God and continue to pray for the nation and the world.At 11am we will have a short Parish Communion Service looking at Ephesians Chapter 1 together called “Our place in Christ” .

 We hope you can join us at St Philip’s Church

If you are unable to join us then you can watch it live at this link.

It was good to see so many of you at church physically or watching online today.
You may have noticed that the notices were a bit confusing! So here is a clear explanation of what will be happening in 2 weeks time.

31 October – Halloween Prayer Walking

Darkness has the threat of despair and misery while light has a promise of hope and restoration. We believe Jesus is our light – and in him there is no darkness at all. We are called to be people of Light.

On an evening often celebrated for Darkness – come join us as we prayer walk our communities as people of light.

We will gather to walk from each church at 4pm.

Each place we stop to pray we will leave a visible reminder that light wins and darkness has no power.

When: Saturday 31st October

Time: 4pm – 6pm

Where: Meet by the front door of either, St Martin’s, St Paul’s, St Barnabas or St Philip’s

1 November – All Hallows Day

We will commemorate All Hallows and All Souls Day together on 1st November. A day of prayer and thanksgiving to remember saints who have encouraged us in our Christian life and at this time of COVID-19 to remember those we have lost, but been unable to mourn them fully.

Communion Service at 11am – St Philip’s Church

Hope Restored – 2pm at St Paul’s Church

Come to NAME, REMEMBER and HONOUR the people or situations you find yourself mourning.

Everyone grieves differently but the journey from loss to hope is one we must all undertake.

This past season has left all of us with a sense of loss and mourning while searching for Hope for ourselves and those around us.

We will be using the grounds (and a bit inside as it will be raining) at St Paul’s creatively to look at the stages of grief and offer opportunities to respond. The invitation is for anyone who would like to come so please feel free to invite your friends, local community and neighbours.

When: Sunday 1st November

Time: Come between 2pm and 4pm

Where: St Paul’s Church grounds – Map Here

This Sunday 18th October quite a few things will be different.

We have moved our Communion service to 11am on Sunday morning. We will meet to pray from 10am for our Parish, for the Nation and the Community. Please come to both – or either!

So we will not be providing video content on Sunday morning BUT we will attempt to livestream from St Philip’s – if you are subscribed to our Youtube channel you’ll get a notification that there is a live event. You will hopefully be able to write comments and be ‘in community’ there as we’re used to. Please remember if you’re commenting on the quality of the livestream (or the sermon!) that it is good practice to have 3 positives before a negative!!

https://www.youtube.com/c/parishofgirlingtonheatonandmanningham

We are also starting a new sermon series on Ephesians called
God’s Plans for God’s People in God’s World

We really do hope you can join us – it may take a few weeks to get everything working correctly – so bear with us as we try to be a gathered community again despite restrictions.

On Tuesday the

Prayer Course

Continues online – 7.30pm Tuesday 20th October

PLEASE JOIN US – All the links you need are here:

https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Tuesdays 7.30 – 8.30pm

· 27th October
· 3rd November
· 10th November
· 17th November
· 1st December
· 8th December

Unable to join us on the night? Links to the sessions will be available throughout the week.

If you know someone unable to access the internet, Why not get them a copy of the book?
How to Pray a simple guide for normal people by Pete Greig, Hodder & Stoughton 2019

On Sunday morning we will conclude our series with 1 John Chapter 5

The theme is Jesus gives ‘life’

What’s that about during lockdown? How do I have ‘eternal’ life? Join with us to find out!

Again it will be at 10.45.

We’ll have Zoom prayer afterwards at 11.15.

All links that you need are here:
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

APCM

We have moved our APCM date that was supposed to be next week to:
15 November 2020 – 10am – details to follow

Sunday Services
As the nights will be drawing in we are going to move our 4pm Communion service to 11am – still at St Philip’s starting Sunday 18th October. This means the online worship will be live from St Philip’s at 11am – but may be a bit wobbly the first couple of weeks – please bear with us.
We will be praying for this service and for our city and nation at 10am. This is not just for vicars! Please come and join the prayer time. You might even prefer to pray and not stay for communion – that is fine. We will try a few different ways of doing things in the first few weeks, please come and see, and give feedback!

An eight-week journey through the Lord’s Prayer

STARTS online

7.30pm Tuesday 6th October

PLEASE JOIN US

All the links you need are here:

https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Tuesdays 7.30 – 8.30pm

· 6th October

· 20th October

· 27th October

· 3rd November

· 10th November

· 17th November

· 1st December

· 8th December

Unable to join us on the night?

Links to the sessions will be available throughout the week.

If you know someone unable to access the internet, Why not get them a copy of the book?

How to Pray a simple guide fornormal people

by Pete Greig, Hodder & Stoughton 2019

Virus-free. www.avast.com

On Sunday morning we will continue our series with 1 John Chapter 4

The Title is "God is Love"
We will ask ourselves “So what difference does that make to my life?”

Again it will be at 10.45am

All links that you need are here:
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

We’ll have Zoom prayer afterwards at 11.15.

If you’re coming to the Communion Service at 4pm (St Philip’s) we hope to develop some of the themes of the morning service.
Remember that all public places are being asked to take a register or those who come in for more than a few minutes. You will also have the opportunity to check in using the NHS App that can be found here:
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.nhs.covid19.production

Apple
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nhs-covid-19/id1520427663

If you’ve not been before please come! We still have room for you! Details of what to expect are here:

For those who have used it before the Daily Hope Telephone Service has a new Chair Exercises section – something to try!?
Call 0800 804 8044
Once you’ve connected to this free call you can press the number for different options:

1 Hymns we Love – short talks about Hymns
2 Hymnline – recordings of Hymns on a loop
3 Chair Exercises – different every day
4 Daily Reflection read by Pam Rhodes

This week we look at 1 John Chapter 3 – the title of the service is
“He says we are Children of God!”

We look at:
KNOWING God’s truth
OBEYING God’s commandments
LOVING God’s children

Again it will be at 10.45.

All links that you need are here:
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

We’ll have Zoom prayer afterwards at 11.15.

If you’re coming to the Communion Service at 4pm we hope to develop some of the themes of the morning service.
Remember that all public places are being asked to take a register or those who come in for more than a few minutes. You will also have the opportunity to check in using the new NHS App that can be found here:
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.nhs.covid19.production

Apple
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nhs-covid-19/id1520427663

This week we continue with the ‘new look’ attempting to find some sort of regularity despite ever changing regulations.
Sunday schedule

10.45am – Short Youtube meditation
11.15am – Zoom Prayer
4pm – Communion Service at St Philip’s Girlington
Hope to see many of you at one of these events.

All links are here:
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

This week we are studying the First Letter from John by looking at Chapter 1.

We hear passionate encouragement from John to the Church to get back to the truth – “we have seen and heard”.
Again we have been knocked back to 10.45am automatically by Youtube. Perhaps someone somewhere feels we need to have a lie in?

This week we will be praying in our breakout rooms in the after church zoom – 11.15am We have a lot to pray about. School opening. Bradford Infection Spikes. New Government Guidance. Our 4pm communion service at St Philip’s.
Please join us if you don’t usually. Zoom is not for everyone, but you may be needed not for what you get from it, but for the encouragement that you can bring to others and to the Scattered Church.

All links are here:
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM