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Sunday 26th June 2021 – God’s Grace

This Sunday we are back at St Philip’s Church – 10am for prayer which is also on Zoom

Then 11am for our main Communion Service which will also be livestreamed.

https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Our theme this week is God’s Grace – looking at Luke 14: 12-24 – the Parable of the Great Banquet

Notices

For those of you who prayed for Charlene’s wedding – our PCSO in Heaton – here are some pictures of the wedding which was finally able to go ahead!

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Come and Work with us!

Please pray with us for the right person to come and work with us here in the Parish of Girlington, Heaton and Manningham.  The Job advert is available here – please share it widely!

It was Sue’s last day working with us yesterday.  What a privilege to have breakfast with Church Leaders from around the city to pray with her and her husband Ian as they move to South East Asia working with CMS

If you missed our Baptisms last week there is a page with links and a recap here

Please pray for Clare and Chris – we head into a time of increased pressure without Sue, we’ll miss her terribly.

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Sunday 20th June 2021 – Baptism Service and Farewell to Sue

The weather forecast for Sunday has meant a few changes need to be made to our plans.

We have a Baptism service at St Paul’s Church – Manningham starting at 11am.  It will be inside and we will do our best to cope with COVID regulations.  So please bring your mask and sorry but after promising that we’d sing it will not be possible this time.  We are not fully setup for streaming but we can certainly send a live feed of the proceedings online so if you cannot make it please lookout for notifications from YouTube.

We will also be saying a very fond farewell to Rev Sue Jennings, our Associate Vicar.  She has been central to our leadership in the Parish for many years now and it will be very hard to say goodbye.

We will attempt to have some sort of event afterwards it may not be what it should be!  Please bear with us, and please remember that you really do need to follow instructions when asked to stay in your seat and keep your mask on.

As a way for you all to contribute to the Baptism can you please bring a thermos flask with boiling water in it. During the service we will all pour our hot water contributions into the full size baptismal pool – bringing something from our own homes as a contribution.  It will also make the whole experience more pleasant for our baptism candidates.

10am Prayer meeting at St Paul’s –  St Paul’s Rd, Bradford BD8 7LS

11am Baptism and Communion service

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Sunday 13th June 2021 – Generous Hospitality: In the Household

mary Martha

This Sunday at our Parish Communion Service we will continue our series on Generous Hospitality: This week is entitled “In the Household” – looking at the story of Mary and Martha. Luke 10: 38-42.

We meet at 11am in St Philip’s Church. It’s the usual link to join us online.

Prayer beforehand is at 10am back in the church but also on zoom at the usual link.

Notices

On 20th June 2021 we will be having a Baptism service at 11am.  This will be held at St Paul’s Church, Manningham – it is complicated and not advisable to have such a change of venue but there are many good reasons for it.  This service will be outside – so not livestreamed.  We will be able to SING! We will be recording much of the event and a video summary will be available YouTube, hopefully before the end of Sunday.

We will also be saying a very fond farewell to the Rev Sue Jennings as it will be her last Sunday – we will still be under restrictions of course but we have far more scope to be ‘normal’ outside so please come and celebrate Sue’s ministry with us.

Our first parish wedding in a long while is taking place tomorrow – Sat 12 June – in St Barnabas Church.  Please pray for Hollie and Oliver and their family as they get married after many postponements.

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APCM 2021 Videos

Thanks to the many of you who attended our APCM on 30th May 2021.  It came around quickly this time since our last one was in November 2020.

Here is a page giving a summary of what happened at the APCM and 2 videos that you may have missed.

PS Apologies for all the emails you may have got on Friday.  The system kept saying they failed to upload – but they clearly did upload…. 21 times for the lucky ones!

 

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Sunday 6th June 2021 – GENEROUS HOSPITALITY

Luke Sermon Series.
Join us for the next 3 Sundays in the book of Luke in a series on Generous Hospitality.


We begin ‘On the Road’ in Luke 10:25-37. How does Jesus answer the question, ‘who is my neighbour?’
We meet at 11am in St Philip’s Church. It’s the usual link to join us online.


Prayer beforehand is at 10am back in the church, not on zoom.

Notices
Please pray for Charlene the PCSO in Heaton who is much loved in our community. She is finally getting married tomorrow. June 5th after many COVID delays!

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Annual Meeting of Parishioners + APCM = Communion – 30th May 2021

This Sunday is a little different: we meet as usual to pray at 10am on Zoom.  Then at 11am we begin our 2 Annual Meetings that look back at 2020 and forward to the rest of 2021 and onto 2022.

The APCM will be on Zoom and live.  Please bear with us as we hold a hybrid event of this size for the first time.  If you come on Zoom you will be able to see and hear everything and we hope contribute audibly.  If Audio has technical problems you will certainly be able to ask your questions in the chat function.  It would be much better though if you come in person – please do!  There is room.

We will finish our meetings with a short Communion Service. This will not be on Zoom but on Youtube as usual – we can’t tell you the time but you’ll get a notification if you’ve subscribed to our channel.   If you aren’t subscribed and you’d like to be click here.

So in short the usual link will provide at 10am a prayer meeting, at 11am an APCM and then when that is over you can click it again to join the Youtube service as usual: https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

Notices

Before the APCM remember that the Agenda and our annual report for 2020 and the minutes of our last APCM are available for you to read and digest before the meeting.  We will print a number of copies of the report to be available at church.  Please come to this important meeting in person if you possibly can.  We promise it will be quick!  Sunday lunch can be delayed just this once……..

Download the Report here

Download previous APCM minutes here

Download the Agenda here

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Pentecost Sunday – 23 May 2021

 

This Sunday we meet to celebrate and remember the gift of the Holy Spirit

Acts 1.8 says “…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”  Our church in Bradford is the direct result of that power released so powerfully in Jerusalem and still accessible to us today if we ask!  We will look at the famous story when the church began in Acts 2: 1-21

We meet at 11am in St Philip’s Church – Prayer beforehand at 10am is still on zoom – but it is hybrid these days, so you can pray in church if you wish or if you don’t like zoom!

Notices

Next Sunday 30th May is our APCM.  We will begin at 11am and after our business we will end with an act of communion.  We have plenty of space at St Philip’s and we have less severe restrictions these days so we can squash in a bit if needed.

We will be live on the usual link but on Zoom – not on Youtube.  We expect to have the final communion on our Youtube channel – but we don’t know when that will be, sorry.

Our annual report for 2020 and the minutes of our last APCM are available for you to read and digest before the meeting.  Mistakes etc can be corrected before if you contact us.  We will print a number of copies of the report to be available after our church services this week for those who prefer to read it that way.

Download the Report here

Download previous APCM minutes here

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Sunday 16th May 2021 – Thy Kingdom Come

 

This Sunday we will join with the world wide movement “Thy Kingdom Come”.  There are many resources to help us engage and pray for others in our lives – we sent them to you earlier in the week.

Our service on Sunday is at 11am in St Philip’s Church and we will focus on Thy Kingdom Come –  we hope you’ll pray with us on Zoom at 10am too!

Notices

Please remember that the APCM will be on 30th May at 11am – we will finish with an act of Communion together.

Last week at Church we announced that we will be having Baptisms on 20th June – please pray about who you could tell, we will need to have some preparation classes, there is still time!