Parish of GHM

 Over the past 6 months we have developed our work at St Paul’s with the Drop In guests, who in the light of COVID-19 restrictions have had to move to a take-out meal option rather than a sit-down meal.  We have seen an increase of people coming to collect food on a Friday and as we have got to know folks better – have learnt even more of the daily struggles many of them are facing.

We regularly have 50-60 guests a week and have seen the access to food and help harder to access. As the colder months set in and Christmas is approaching, we are keen to develop our offering and really would LOVE YOUR HELP………

We’ve removed the link from this appeal as it is over….. Thanks for all your generous support!

 Open on Christmas day and provide 70 full Christmas meals including a pudding – for this we are looking to find a total of £280

We are also looking to give a gift to all who come on Christmas day so are looking for

• hats
• gloves
• socks
• new boxer shorts S, M, L, XL

AND…

We have been helping to support 25 families from St Philip’s School since the summer, with holiday food provision.

The provision for lunch packs have been supplemented with help from The Storehouse, St Marys: Burley- in- Wharfedale, St Philip’s School, Transform for Good

We would like to further gift each of these families along with 10 additional Drop In families with a Christmas box (or celebration meal box) containing:

• Halal chicken for the family
• Pudding item
• Christmas crackers
• Box of Tea
• Packet of Sugar

The value of each of these boxes will be £13… we would need 35

If you would like to help the easiest way these days is online – click here to find a giving page, click on your preferred amount and away you go, or there will be an offering box on Sunday at Church.

We need to know what we have to spend by the 17^th Dec, any additional money given after that will go into the food provision for 2021 so will get wisely used.

On Sunday we will be celebrating the 2nd Sunday of Advent in St Philip’s Church – and we will also finish Ephesians  with Chapter 6 .

At 10am we pray for about 30 minutes before the service at 11am which will also be livestreamed for those who cannot join us ‘in the flesh’.

Links of course are here: https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

We hope you’re enjoying our Advent Angels readings – please share them online either on social media or emailing the links.  If you can’t subscribe you can just visit the playlist – videos will appear each day.

It’s our final week of the Prayer Course online this Tuesday – hope to see you there.

This Sunday we will be celebrating the first Sunday in Advent  – but we will also look at Ephesians  Chapter 5 .

At 10am we pray for about 30 minutes on Zoom before the service at 11am which will be livestreamed from St Philip’s.

Hopefully next week we’ll be back to services ‘in the flesh’ – very appropriate for Advent!

Links of course are here: https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

On Tuesday we will begin our online Advent Calendar which we hope you’ll interact with and share!

 

This Sunday we’re back to Church online

At 10am we will pray together as a whole Parish.  Please come and join us – especially if you’ve not been before

11am we will have Church on YouTube again!

Both links are here.

We will look at Ephesians 4 – Who are you? How old are you?

This Sunday we will hold our APCM

Clearly it cannot be live so it will be entirely on Zoom.  Details of how to join are below – you can simply click the link to login below to Zoom or you can phone in and join us on audio only. Contact us if you need tech help.

The first half an hour will be the ‘service’ section and then the business will begin at 10.30am.

Please try to read Minutes from our previous APCM before the meeting.

Timings

10am
Prayer, Reading and Talk from Ephesians 3

10.30am
Annual Meeting of Parishioners for the Election of Church Wardens

10.45am
APCM

APCM Agenda

Introductory Business: Attendance, Apologies, Minutes – 5 mins 
Trustees Report and Electoral Roll accepted – 5 mins 
Parish Lenses Video – 6 mins
Looking to 2021 – Chris – 5 mins 
Elections – PCC, Lay Reader and Synod – 5 mins 
Finances and Appointment of Independent Examiner – 10 mins
2019 Recap Video – 5 mins 
Clare – Outreach into 2021- 5 mins 
Parish Teams Video – 3 mins
Sue – Ministry into 2021 – 5 mins 
Chris – Questions – 10 mins
Prayer

Zoom Meeting is 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.

This week we’re back online only!  We’ll start at 10.45 to be ready for a tribute at 11am for those who have given their lives for the country.  We’ll also be continuing with our Ephesians Series as well.

The service will be more in the style of our YouTube services over Lockdown 1 – but will be happening Live.  So please bear with us – this hasn’t happened before!

We have been praying together from 10am for the past few weeks – this will be on Zoom this week.  If you’ve not been before, please come and try it.  Our nation needs prayer more than ever.  There is no need to pray out loud if you don’t want.  Please come just to say ‘Amen’!  As usual all the links you need are here: https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM 

If you are subscribed to our YouTube channel you’ll get a notification that we’ve gone live – if you aren’t subscribed – why not!??

Sunday morning we meet again at 11am for our service of Holy Communion in St Philip’s Church. The Theme is Thanksgiving – it’s live on our Youtube Channel.
https://linktr.ee/ParishofGHM

A good number of us have been praying creatively for the city and our churches from 10am
The Bible says “if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.” We need some of that at the moment, so if you haven’t been before please come and join us – there is no coffee after church so you get more time to catch up with others too.

All Saints’ Day and All Souls Day will be celebrated together at an event to remember those we have lost this year.
Please invite those you know who might appreciate the opportunity to grieve more formally and creatively. We mentioned this last week – details are here. Some of this will now be taking place inside due to the weather.

Don’t forget we are praying around the parish on Saturday night – Halloween – meet at any of our 4 Churches at 4pm to shine a light in dark places – literally and spiritually!

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