St Mary’s L19: Who Let The Dads Out? group celebrated their first birthday this month with cake and candles and the usual bacon butties on the new sofas! Dads, granddads and preschool children enjoy the play equipment, newspapers and super grub on the last Saturday of every month. New people are joining the group each month so we’ll have to get more bacon in!
Thanks to all who were involved in the fantastic Nativity at St. Mary's !
Celebrating international Messy Sunday St Mary’s brought two congregations together – uniformed organisations Praise Service and L19: Messy Church – for Messy Creation. Everyone was invited to pray, make crafts, sing old songs and new and hear the Messy Message, all on God’s Creation theme. Afterwards they spilled out onto the church gardens for a BBQ and summer plant sale.
Children receiving certificates having completed a Children & Holy Communion course on 24th April
New dads & tots group supported by L19: Messy Church
Monthly on Saturday mornings 10am-12noon starting Sat 29th January & then the last Saturday of every month.
Meet other dads & male carers, enjoy bacon butties & newspapers. Pre-school children only. Play equipment.
Baptisms of Jack Carl and Noah James on Sunday 27th June 2010. Congratulations!
Baptism of Lily Rose at St. Mary's on Sunday May 30th 2010. Congratulations!
St Mary’s Brownies and congregation receive daffodils on Mothering Sunday
Sue Mitchell, Diocese of Liverpool Child Friendly Church Award Adviser, re awards St Mary’s for a further 3 years
On Christmas Eve a Christingle Service was held, in aid of the wonderful work of The Children’s Society, when everyone received a Christingle and was invited to take the Light of Christ out into the community.
180 members of L19: Messy Church celebrated Messy Christmas on 5th December with all-age crafts, Christmas puppets and turkey rolls. We look forward to the next time we meet on Sat 13th February 2010.
Adoring angels and surprised shepherds helped bring the Nativity story to life at St Mary’s 11 am service with KFJ leading the whole service and young George on the keyboard. Well done KFJ!
Chloe Elizabeth was baptised at St. Mary's on Sunday 25th October 2009. Congratulations!
Jade Sian Louise was baptised at St. Mary's on Sunday 18th October 2009. Congratulations!
On 20th September Rt Rev James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, preached at St Mary’s Praise Service and commissioned children’s leaders in a service which declared St Mary’s as a Children’s Resource Church for the Diocese of Liverpool. Linda Jones, Team Leader of the Church Growth & Ecumenism Team, described to the congregation, of all ages, what a Resource Church is. Children’s and youth leaders, past and present, were presented with long service certificates by the Bishop of Liverpool in recognition of their ministry at St Mary’s and for God. Bishop James invited every child to come forward for a special blessing and over 100 children were blessed by him during a very special time in this all-age service. St Mary’s has a story to share and would like to encourage other parishes by sharing their story so far.
You only have to look at the joy on these children's faces to understand how they all felt on Easter Day when they took their first Holy Communion before Confirmation! Between 40 and 50 children & young people have been on a six week course with all-ages through Lent, lead by Rev Paul Ellis, at each 11 am service. This interactive and visual teaching allowed all ages to ask questions and experience the awe, wonder and grace of being invited to the Lord's Table. In accordance with the Diocesan Policy and authorisation of Bishop James, St Mary's is now one of many parishes in the diocese who admit children to Communion before Confirmation. St Mary's operates an open age policy. After the service the children invited everyone to have cake to celebrate this wonderful occasion.
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus; who being in the very nature... Philippians 2:5, 6a