What's going on
Change lives
Join the team, training available. Young Church REALLY need a leader
with either the 3 to 5's or 5's to 7's. Now we have Refresh you need not
miss out on worship by helping in Young Church. Details Margaret Hyde
01628 621651 jhyde98@aol.com
Holiday Club
Help is still needed for the Holiday Club during the week of 11-15 August.
Also help is needed on the afternoon of Sundays 10th and 16th August to
put up scenery and clear the church and then to take it down return the
chairs to earlier setting. Please could you also collect kitchen roll tubes,
Pringle pots and double white sheets. We will be decorating part of the
church to look like a treasure island and would like to borrow anything that
you think would fit that theme, eg. treasure chest, barrels, ropes, fishing
nets, crabs, fish, palm trees, parrots, coconuts, driftwood. Please contact Debbie (532080) or Margaret (621651) if you can help. Thank you.
Congratulations to Kate and Pete Higley on the arrival of Daniel Matthew on Monday 14th July, a little brother for Gemma and Joseph. We thank the Lord for Daniel’s safe arrival and look forward to welcoming him with the rest of his family.
Re:charge – Summer Holiday Activities for 11 – 18 year olds
Various activities are planned over the summer, starting with a Scavenger
Hunt on Friday 25th July. Please see leaflets at the back of the church for
more information.
Good news
St Peter's with St Mark's have been invited to receive a stipendiary curate
to train in this parish from summer 2009. The PCC have accepted the
invitation. The process by which a curate is matched with a parish will
begin in the autumn. It is the responsibility of the training parish to
provide accommodation for the curate (and his/her family, if they have one) -
the stipend and other aspects of their training are paid for by the diocese.
If you have any questions about this, do be in touch with Mark (621961).
And please pray that through the process the right person would be
appointed for our church.
Traidcraft Stall
Help is needed to staff the stall on a rota basis on Sunday mornings.
If you think that you could serve in this way please speak to Rosalie (621961).
‘Friends at St Mark's Crescent Methodist Church
extend a warm welcome to the congregations of St Peter's and St Mark's Churches for a Songs of Praise service at 6.30pm on Sunday 3rd
August 2008. Any hymn requests to me before Thursday 31st July and if
anyone would like to say a few words about why a hymn has been chosen
then do please also let me know. Apologies for late invitation but I am just back from my 3 months sabbatical.’ Best wishes Barbara Rev Barbara McIntivey (tel 626533)
Reminder
The church floor is being done the week commencing Monday 28th July, so the church will be out of action for that week. Hopefully the fumes should have dispersed by Sunday.
Maidenhead Talking Newspaper serves over a hundred local blind and
partially sighted people every week, and needs new sound engineers. No experience needed, full training provided. One evening a month at most,
great fun and very worthwhile. Contact Dan Haldane on 625087 / haldane@fish.co.uk.
Summer Church
As last year, for the six Sundays of the school summer holidays – 27th July to 31st August – there will be no young church at the 10.30am services. Instead, each service will be all-age in scope and theme with something, we hope, for everyone. A slightly simpler structure, a bit shorter, including well known songs and interactive talks with a theme throughout based on events in Paul's life and his letters. For all children, there’ll be an opportunity to collect stickers, with prizes available at the end of the summer holidays. On 10th August the service will include communion. On 17th August the service will be a follow on from the holiday club.
5 - 3 - 1
Hopefully most of you will remember or be aware of the launch of 5-3-1 on
22nd June. This is an initiative in which all the church can play a part,
enabling and encouraging one another to pray and to invite people to Alpha.
Can I encourage you to take a card if you have not already done so and
start thinking and praying about whom you can invite? If you have any questions about this, then please chat to me. Mark
Christian books, commentaries to help with Bible study
These and children's work books are now in a bookcase in the old vestry (the corridor from the church to the Little Sparrows room!) Do take a look -feel free to borrow them, returning there after use.
Open Church Building Project
The RBWM Planning and Conservation Officers have raised a number of concerns about the building plans that were informally submitted to them. Concerns centred on the amount of development proposed on the site, and associated loss of soft landscaping, together with the large size of the proposed foyer compromising the tower. These are the concept plans that have been widely circulated and discussed within the church. Accordingly the architect is currently reviewing and revising the designs to try and address the concerns raised. Full consultation with the congregation in relation to any revised plans will take place later in the summer.
Tony May
Prayer Ministry
As we move forward with prayer ministry during and after services at St
Peter's, we are looking to expand the team willing to offer ministry in this
area. This will not require you taking on lots more midweek meetings,
although there will be special training events offered, as well as other input.
If you would like to explore this, you need to speak with Pauline Oliver (419363), who currently leads the team, and/or with Mark. (You will need to have been worshipping with us for at least six months and to be in good relationship with the Lord and with other people.)
Help in the Parish Office
We could do with some help in the Parish Office when Barbie is on holiday
(last two weeks in September). The main need is for somebody to answer the phone between 10.00am and 12.00noon each day,
(or a bit longer if you can manage it) and point enquiries in the right direction. We have a couple of people to help in the June week, so you wouldn’t need
to be here for the whole week. If you feel able to help could you please
talk to Barbie at the Parish Office (784053).
Kitchen Monitor Wanted
The church kitchen is used by many groups and is proving a problem to
keep in good order. There are several people who already do valuable work
such as providing clean tea-towels, and we hire a cleaner whose remit
includes cleaning the kitchen. What we would like is someone who could
take on responsibility for keeping the kitchen tidy and organised - a
challenging task given the amount of stuff and lack of space. This job
would involve keeping an eye on the contents of the fridge, discarding old
food and drink, keeping the cupboards and worksurfaces tidy, and ensuring
there are sufficient supplies of cleaning equipment (or bring it to Barbie’s attention). If this is something you would like to take on, please contact
either David Robinson or Jeremy Stevens.
The Arts Café
This is a welcoming place where Christians and non-Christians can come
to see high-quality entertainment, meet friends and relax. The café is open
on the first Friday of each month from 7:30pm. It is an informal setting
where people of all faiths and none, and all ages, can enjoy watching
Christian performers while relaxing with (non-alcoholic) drinks and snacks.
The Arts Café is run by a cross-denomination group of Christians, as a Maidenhead Town Centre outreach activity, and has been running for nearly 5 years now.
WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP
Many of the original people who set up the Arts Café have moved away, so we need people to help plan upcoming acts, to contact potential acts and book them, to help spread the word about the events (in and out of church), help
on the night (bar / kitchen / technical), help with advertising events, signs
and posters. We need help encouraging people to come from the churches
and also non Christians. If you know anyone who may be able to help (even occasionally) with any of the above, please can you get them to contact
Matthew Edwards on 784960, or e-mail to mkle@talk21.com Also, if you
would like to attend, or have friends in need of a good night out, please
pass this message to them also.
For more information look at www.arts-cafe.co.uk ‘
Re:charge
Re:charge youth is a project based in Maidenhead's town centre for
the young people. Our aim is to help young people, often facing
challenging circumstances, to build futures full of hope by providing
them with opportunities to make positive relationships, find new talents
and to give them a safe place to hang out. We currently open on a
Tuesday and Friday and are urgently looking for more volunteers to help
run the sessions due to their increasing popularity. We currently see around
60 - 90 young people per session and need at least 5 volunteers to provide
the young people with a really good service. We would love to run sessions
on other days (especially Saturdays) in the near future. Volunteers don't
need experience but do need to enjoy spending time with young people
and be able to spare a few hours each month. Training will be given. If
you'd like to make a positive difference to young people in Maidenhead then contact Dawn on 01628 789845 (work) or alternatively you can email her on Dawn.Bridge@gmail.com
St Peter’s Toddler Group
This meets every Tuesday morning in the Church and Jubilee Room.
It’s a fun and vibrant space for pre-school children and their parents
and carers to come and experience God through bible stories, crafts and
in our witness to the Lord. The toddler group offers adults (who may find
Church intimidating) a gentle introduction to the word of the Lord, and to the children their first opportunity to be engaged in all the excitement and fun of being a Christian. We are looking for people from our Church family to
assist us to reach out by joining our refreshments team, by telling
Bible stories or planning craft activities. It doesn‘t have to be a weekly commitment. If you would like to help or would like more information
talk to either Sally Gould or Jenny Thorn after a Sunday service, or
call us on 776013 (Sally) or 626745 (Jenny).
Open House
This is held at the Vicarage on most Sundays between
12.30 and 4pm. Bring something to share, or not if it's not
possible - there will be plenty to go around. Come when you want
and stay as long as you like - this is an opportunity to spend time
with others from Church, and meet new people.
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