Church News & Notices
27th April
Monday Club are meeting tomorrow, 28th April at 1.30 pm. Mr Roy Wainwright will be giving a talk on Speke Hall.
See below for details of Open Doors Coffee meeting on 2nd May, which is in the Lounge and the Christian Aid 80yrs Coffee morning on 9th May in the Church.
As part of Christian Aid Week there will be a Creativity and Wellbeing Evening for all ages in the Church on Friday 16th May from 4.30 pm until 8pm to raise funds for Christian Aid. There will be several stalls and activities including pottery, somatic movement, Lego creation, sustainable styling, creative writing and more.
If anyone can volunteer to support the event or bake healthy refreshments or has a skill or hobby they may like to share, please speak with Kelly Vincent.
Tim, with his Moderator of General Assembly “hat on” is leading a Ministers' school in the Southwest during this coming week
The new sound system and projector has been installed in the past few days, and we hope you will all benefit from it. Please do bear with us while we become acquainted with the system. Would anyone wishing to learn about the workings of it, please note that a further training session has been arranged for 2pm on Tuesday, 29th April in the Church.
A note for your diary- RADS will be producing a comedy called “A Bunch of Amateurs” from 21st -24th May and more about that next week
For your information there is a wedding here in Church next Saturday 3rd May at 1.30 pm when Caroline, the daughter of Jan and Charles, will marry Michael.
Our service next week will be at the usual time of 10.00am and will be led by Tim. It is not a Communion service,
Refreshments will be served after the service today and you are very welcome to stay for a cuppa and a chat
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 80 Years
Please note that the Open Doors coffee mornings in May are rearranged. On the 2nd May, the first Friday in the month, usually in the sanctuary, will now be held in the Lounge.
The following Friday, 9th May, will be in the Sanctuary and will be in support of Christian Aid. There will be the usual coffee, tea, cake, books and pre-loved clothes as well as a small raffle. We do hope that you are able to come and support the event.
Christian Aid Week itself will be from 11th to 17th May and there will be the usual red collecting envelopes distributed in advance, to be brought to church on either the 11th or 18th when special collecting buckets will be available.
And this year there will also be a special fundraising event based upon Creativity and Wellbeing to be held on Friday 16th May from 4.30 pm until 8.00 pm in the sanctuary. (Please see the separate notice from Kelly)
20th & 27th April
A further reminder about our Easter services.
There will be a Communion service here at Allerton on this coming Maundy Thursday, 17th April, which will be a service in the round, at 7.00pm.
There will also be a service here at Allerton the following day, this coming Friday being Good Friday, 18th April at 11.00 am – refreshments will be served after that service.
Easter Day Communion Service on Sunday 20th April will be a combined service at St Stephens URC, Lance Lane at 11.00am. There will be no service here at Allerton that day. The service will be led by Reverend Stuart Ratcliffe.
Anybody wishing to attend that service who is not able to make their way to St Stephens, should please let us know and arrangements to provide transport can be made.
Services will resume at Allerton on 27th April when the service will be led by the Revs Tod & Ana Gobledale.
Refreshments will be served after the service and you are very welcome to stay for a cuppa and a chat.
30th June 2024
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On Sunday, 9th June the joint congregations of Allerton and St Stephen's URCs made a surprise presentation of a specially-commissioned preaching stole to mark Tim's election as Moderator of The General Assembly of the United Reformed Church. His term of office commences this month, July 2024 and will last for a year. To see the photos, click HERE
April 20th - Resurrection Day 2025
CHRIST IS RISEN
CHRIST IS RISEN
CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED
Ongoing Notices
It is our intention to carry on
using the computer, projector and screen for our services here at Allerton.
There is quite a bit of preparation that goes into having hymns and readings on
the screen and we would like to spread the workload as best we can. If you or a
member of your family are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint and can spare a couple of hours once a month to assist with the setting up of a PowerPoint
presentation, we would like to hear from you. Please speak to Ruth Winterburn
or Charles Lasham.
Our Minister,Tim has been elected to be
Moderator of General Assembly of the URC for the year commencing July 2024.
This is a great accolade for him, and we extend our heartiest congratulations.
