Next Daylight meeting: 14th September 2024 at 10 am in St Aidan’s Chapel. Further details about Daylight are here.
Silence and Stillness – a monthly meditation. First Saturday of each month, 11am-11.45am at St Alkmund’s with WCCM | The World Community for Christian Meditation. Coffee and tea afterwards. All are welcome as an introduction or to deepen one’s practice of meditation.
For weekly Morning Prayer, please see the Welcome page. There is prayer for our town every Thursday morning 9.00am till 10.30am at Central, the home of Palmer’s café. The meeting are in the upstairs room, and all are welcome. “A simple time of prayer, no frills, no refreshments, simply us and God together in love and unity.”
Saturday 14th September 2024 Ride & Stride for Shropshire Historic Churches Trust (SHCT). Please join us to raise funds for SHCT and our churches, as a group or on your own. All welcome! You can help raise money by: *sponsoring a rider, *taking part on bike, foot, or even by rickshaw! *joining Beth’s Walk – a stroll through the town visiting churches new and old (there’ll be steps to climb and the odd steep slope but, weather permitting, it will be an interesting couple of hours). Sign up forms available in St Chad’s Outer Vestibule on the R+S table. Or join the St Chad’s refreshment team: sign up in St Chad’s church.
St Chad’s Ride and Stride contact Nick Paterson via the office or Email [email protected] and for St Alkmund’s please be in touch with Andrew Cross. Further information here.
Date for your Diary. Harvest Supper 15th September after 6pm Evensong in St Chad’s Church hall. Details to follow. All are welcome
Weekly Concerts in the Round. Friday September 6th at 12.30pm the Dunelm Duo features music for flute, saxophone and piano; they make their debut concert at St Chad’s church. Details here. Concerts are free of charge with lunch in the hall afterwards. Future concert details are here; and to join our mailing list for this series please get in touch with [email protected]
Bishop Jan McFarlane will be installed as the next Dean of Lichfield on Saturday 21 September at 2.30pm and the Bishop of Lichfield and the Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral extend a warm invitation to the clergy, lay leaders, parishioners and officers of the Diocese to attend. In order to enable smooth planning and seating please would you confirm your attendance and number of guests to [email protected] as soon as possible, and before the end of August. We look forward to welcoming you to your Cathedral.
Churches Together Meeting 23rd September: On the topic of “Schools” Jane Newey (England Co-ordinator from Pray for Schools) & Youth for Christ will be joining the evening. Further details due at end of August, but do please save this date for what will be a great gathering.
Final Wishes. As we journey through life with its many ups and downs, we often bury our head in the sand when it comes to preparing our ‘final wishes.’ Death, Dying, funerals etc are the last thing we want to think about. However, as one who has conducted over 250 final services, I know the importance of preparation, particularly for our loved ones left behind. So from September, The Rev Sam has asked me to run a course exploring our ‘Final Wishes’, when we can share together over a cup of tea and light refreshments, our experiences of life, dying and death. Each session will run from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in St Chad’s Church Hall and I intend to invite professionals to some of the meetings to help us prepare and maybe answer some of our questions. The dates for your diary are 24th September, 8th , 22nd October, 5th, 19th November and finishing with a bring and share lunch on 17th December. If you would like to join me or would like further information, please contact me via the office. The Rev Mary Fearnside
Save the Date: The Friends of St Chad’s have engaged Sally Jones, a professional musical theatre actress, to present “You’re the Top: the Life and Songs of Cole Porter” in St Chad’s church on the evening of Friday 25th October 2024. Details will follow.
The Church Office: [email protected] or phone 01743 365 478
The current pew sheet can be accessed via the Welcome page of the website.