to know, grow and show the love of God
If you come along to either of the churches in our Walmersley Road Benefice you can pick up a copy of our December magazine. We would love to see you!
For those who can only get to us online, the digital version is available here.
Inside this Christmas and New Year edition you’ll see prayers, Bible readings and meditations plus details on activities and services.
There’s also a letter from Barbara Silvester…
If you come along to either of the churches in our Walmersley Road Benefice you can pick up a copy of our November magazine. We would love to see you!
For those who can only get to us online, the digital version is available here.
Inside this Remembrance edition of the magazine you’ll see prayers, Bible readings and meditations plus details on activities and services.
There’s also a letter from Margery Spencer who recently visited her uncle’s grave in Cambrai, France. Percy died aged 19 in 1918.
This is our October magazine which includes a farewell from Gill Barnett, who is moving to a new role in Rochdale…
“We are all called to be active members of the body of Christ – our anchor – but in that calling we will be gifted and prepared to do things that sometimes make us uncomfortable and which we find challenging.
Both inside and outside the church we will cross paths with people who may not be like us. They may dress differently, talk differently, vote differently, hold different things in high (or low) esteem. There are people who are not like us. There are people who we don’t like. There are people who don’t like us. But there is no-one to whom we shouldn’t show the love of Christ…”
These ‘prayers for a priest’ are for the Reverend Gill Barnett whose final service with us was today, Sunday 30th September. She takes up a new post from 21st October as Priest-in-Charge of Healey & Hamer and St. Ann, Belfield.
Today’s service was also a celebration of all the baptisms that had taken place in our two churches over the last few years. So, the intercessions reflect that too.
“By entering this church it may be possible that you hear “the call of God”.
However, it is less probable that He will call you on your mobile.
Thank you for turning off your phones.
If you want to talk to God, enter, choose a quiet place and talk to him.
If you want to see him, send him a text while driving.”
During our Bury to Heaton Park walk we took in the River Roch, Unsworth Pole and Egypt Farm before getting to Heaton Park.
Whilst there we visited the monument to John Paul II who with the help of his ‘popemobile’ had taken mass there in 1982.