Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham

October will be a month of changing things around a bit.  We are going to try all the options we have to engage with people who have not been attending our services during lockdown.  We hope it will look something like this.

Sunday 3^rd October – All Age Communion Service 10.30am (9.30 prayer)

The Sad and Happy Home – Jarius’ Daughter

Sunday 10^th October  – Breakfast church  10am soft start (9am Prayer with Informal Communion)

The Greedy home – Zacchaeus

Sunday 17^thOctober  – ‘Juicy’ with Communion 10.30am (9.30 prayer)

The Snobby home:  The Woman who Anoints Jesus

Sunday 24^thOctober  – Youth service with Communion 10.30am (9.30 prayer)

The Crowded home – Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

Sunday 31^stOctober  – Trad Sunday School – with Communion 10.30am (9.30 prayer)

The Family home:  Healing Peter’s Mother in Law

‘Juicy’ is a the only relatively new concept to our Parish.  We can’t tell you exactly how it will look.  But the basic idea is that we meet together at the start and at the end of the service but the middle has many options of where you go.  Perhaps a craft activity, maybe you’d like to sit quietly, or make the story out of Lego, some may prefer a discussion group.

Please remember that we are trying these ideas out.  We’d love helpful and honest feedback – preferably not straight away, while people are tired and still processing it themselves!

This Sunday is the end of our OT series!  We finish with the story of Ruth at 11am at St Philip’s Church. We will be live on zoom for the prayers beforehand at 10am and the service will be livestreamed on Youtube at 11am.

https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

Thanks to all who came and graciously talked about our future as a Parish last week.  It was a good and positive occasion.  Apologies that you haven’t had the notes from the discussions yet – they are on the way!

We will also be moving these Sunday services after this week – so come to St Paul’s Manningham the week after. We will be sending out far more details in a separate email early next week.

St Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Rd, Bradford BD8 7LS 

It’s a bit different this week.  We have no service at St Philip’s Church.  We will instead meet to talk and to pray and then share Communion together at St Martin’s Church – Haworth Road.

We will still meet to pray at 10am – please pray together with us at 10 from your homes even if you can’t attend.  It is an important day!  Sorry but we won’t be having this on zoom – there will be a lot to setup and the technology isn’t ready at that location.  Neither will we be livestreaming – it is not really a service. Many apologies for the inconvenience.

The Forum will begin at 11am.  We will think about the future, talk, pray and celebrate together at the Lord’s table.  At 1pm we will share a very simple lunch of soup and a roll.

Please try your best to be at this important event.

On Sunday we are backtracking a bit to look at the extraordinary life of King David.  (Then we’ll conclude the series in 2 weeks by backtracking again to learn about his Great Grandmother.)

This service will be livestreamed as usual at 11am.  We will pray together on zoom as well at 10am. Both the livestream and zoom link are here:  https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

A few weeks ago we mentioned that we will have a new ordinand starting with us on placement this week. Please pray for Daniel and his wife Jo with children Ariela and Ezra.

Next Sunday 19th September 2021 – We plan to have a Parish Forum to talk about the future of our Parish and how we will move forward out of the pandemic.

We will meet at 11am in St Martin’s Church Hall.  We will have a ’round tables’ time of discussion as well as a short communion service.  Afterwards we will provide a soup and roll lunch.

I have written down some thoughts of what we need to talk about as well as what will be unhelpful to talk about.  Please read it before the meeting.  You can download it here: Letter to the Parish – Gathered Worship 2021

As we move out of lockdown we are also planning to spend the whole month of October unapologetically focusing on children and families in our Parish Worship on Sunday mornings.  We must disciple and nurture young people however great the cost if we are to continue our mission to share the gospel in this city.

Today  we have 2 things you need to know about in our Parish Worship service today – 5th Sept 2021.

Dear Prime Minister – The Climate Coalition is asking people to petition the Prime Minister, asking him to put climate issues in the forefront of his policies.  You can sign it online here.

Also we talked about a sheet which gives Nine ways to change how you live to be a ‘Green Christian’

You can download it – but if you print it out please ‘recycle’ it by passing it on to others. nine-ways document

This Sunday we have a little break in our Heroes series.  We have been meaning to focus on our Environment and the world around us for some time.  We have just entered the season of ‘Creationtide’ we don’t want to just glory in the gift of creation.  We want to challenge ourselves and others about our behaviour and our attitude in this area.

So come along this Sunday.  The service will be livestreamed as usual – also prayer will be at 10am before the service in the church.

You can zoom into this prayer meeting – even if you can’t be with us in person.  Both the livestream and zoom link are here:  https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

A few weeks ago we mentioned that we will have a new placement ordinand starting with us next week. Please pray for Daniel and his wife Jo with children Ariela and Ezra.  They will be joining us next Sunday for the first time.  Please give them a warm welcome.

We plan to have a Parish Forum to talk about the future of our Parish and how we will move forward out of the pandemic.

We will meet at 11am in St Martin’s Church Hall on Sunday 19th September 2021.  We will have a ’round tables’ time of discussion as well as a short communion service.  Afterwards we will provide a soup and roll lunch.

I have written down some thoughts of what we need to talk about as well as what will be unhelpful to talk about.  You can download it here: Letter to the Parish – Gathered Worship 2021

Please remember that we MUST think differently, creatively and positively for our church to be here for future generations.  Remember the Parable of the Two Luncheon Clubs and the meaning explained on this video:

This meeting is really very important. Please come along ready to think, talk and pray about our future.

This Sunday we will be learning from the life of Esther.  We hope you can join us at 11am on Sunday at St Philip’s Church for our Parish Communion service.

The service will be livestreamed as usual – also prayer will be at 10am before the service in the church.

You can zoom into this prayer meeting – even if you can’t be with us in person.  Both the livestream and zoom link are here:  https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

As we move towards the end of the summer – please pray for our families and young people as the new school year is nearly upon us.  It has been a strange few years so we pray for some settled minds and spirits.