Some dates for your diary for after the summer holidays

Sunday September 14th _ Education Sunday and family service in the school grounds.

Saturday 27th September – Church family day in Ribchester.

Last year this was excellent and very well attended day for the whole church family, with a mix of faith, fun, food and fellowship.

Sunday October 5th _ Harvest festival.

Saturday 11th October  –  Quiz night at Enfield Cricket Club in aid of ‘ Tear Fund’

Sunday 2nd November – A special All Saints’ Day service celebrating marking 185 years.

Friday 7th November – Concert by St. Christopher’s choir & band.

Saturday 8th November – Church Autumn Fair.

Fifth Sunday after Trinity 

This service is live in church, but it will be streamed so if you are unable to attend you can view it online. Now most of the words will also appear when you view the service on line so it will be easier to follow the service.

 

First Reading: Amos 8: 1 – 12

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.

“A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a] Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor of the land,

saying,

“When will the New Moon be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market wheat?”—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating with dishonest scales,
buying the poor with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

“Will not the land tremble for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
    and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.

 

Second Reading: Luke 10: 38 – 42

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feetlistening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

 

The Pastoral Team have placed a box at the back of church for donations of new items ( unwanted gifts etc) for their ‘ Hook- a – bag’ stall at Great Harwood on the 16th August.

They would also be graceful for any unwanted gift bags,

Thank you

We now hope to run the Family Cricket Fun Day on

Saturday 19th July

At Enfield

Between 2: 00 – 6:00pm

We hope that everyone will still be able to come – and do bring a friend.

There will be refreshments and suitable games for the younger children too.

                                     To help with arrangements and catering please sign up at the back of church if you would like to go.

Talk by Mary’s Meals volunteers

On Tuesday 8th July

at 7:30pm 

In All Saints’ Church

All welcome

Mary’s Meals is a registered charity that serves nutritious school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. The promise of a good meal attracts hungry children into the classroom giving them the energy to learn and hope for a better future.  Mothers’ Union are inviting anyone who would like to come along and perhaps bring  a friend or family member to hear about this very worthy cause, whose aims are very much like our own MU aims and objectives.

Sunday 27th July

There will be a benefice Service at Altham 

At 10:00am to mark St James’ Day.

This will replace the usual Sunday services at 9:30am and 11:00am

Next church cleaning session and garden tidy – up

 Saturday 5th July from 9:00am

All welcome to come along and help!

We are all members of the God’s church, so it would be lovely if you  could spend just half hour or so  to help keep the church look nice and clean ; you don’t have to stop the whole time. Please come and help if you can – the more helpers we have the quicker it can be done!

The more the merrier!

Thank you your help will be greatly appreciated

 

The PCC has decided to trial refreshments BEFORE the 11:00am service, rather than afterwards in the hope that more people will be able to participate.

This will be from 13th July.

Next Sunday there will be cake and fizz after the service!

Tots’ Praise 

2nd July  from 2:00pm in All Saints’ Church

The Big Picnic

Tot’s Praise is for the youngest – under 5s together with their parents/carers – gather between 2:00 and 2:15pm, all done in time for school pick up.

All welcome

 

School Community Tea

All Saints’ School is inviting people to a Community Tea to be held on –

 Friday, 27 June

at 2:15pm in school.

Please sign up at the back of church if you would like to go.