Sunday 15th February in the Kepier Hall following the Eggs & Ashes ‘All-In’ Service at 10am in Church! 
Who can you invite?
If you’re able to come along, please let the church office know by email: stmichaels.hls@gmail.com or phone: 0191 512 1769 (Tues & Thurs 9am-2pm)
Paula Gooder’s book forms the basis of our Lent course this year at St Michael & All Angels’. The course is based on Pope Francis’ much acclaimed reflections ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ (meaning ‘The Joy of the Gospel’). We hope this time together will allow us to draw on our Advent and Christmas reflections on Christian ‘Joy’ and how we share that with others through our words and actions. Our aim is to offer a positive and realistic approach to sharing our faith in world that often feels like it needs a bigger dose of joy!
All are welcome to join us, wherever we are on our faith journey. We may be exploring, be new to faith or we may have been part of church for many years – we think the course will work for all.
To find out more, give us a call in the parish office (0191 512 1769) on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 10 and 2 or email us on stmichaelshls@gmail.com. It’s helpful for us to know numbers but also, just turn up if you want to, on Wednesday from 25th Feb to 25th Mar. We mean it when we say:
All are welcome
Thanks to everyone’s generosity, 500 jigsaw pieces have now been sponsored, leaving just the four ‘bonus’ pieces – as our 500 piece jigsaw actually has 504 pieces!
Instead of SELLING raffle tickets for these last four pieces, we are going to ALLOCATE A VIRTUAL RAFFLE TICKET NUMBER to each person who has already sponsored one or more pieces – no more money involved!
We will draw the raffle on 22nd January and contact the four bonus piece winners as soon as possible after that.
Many thanks from
The Jigsaw Team (Angela, Dian and Denise)
Our annual Parish Party which the whole family will enjoy takes place on Saturday January 24th at Kepier Hall between 4pm – 8pm
All-Ages welcome!
Bring your own drinks and nibbles. FREE ENTRY!
Raffle • Games • Dancing
A beautiful candlelit service of music, hymns & readings. With hand bells and minced pies this is a delightful service for a wonderful start to Advent!
Sunday 30th November at 6.00 pm
Our monthly, family friendly service for all takes place in November on Safeguarding Sunday (16th November at 10am). The Theme is ‘Staying Safe’. All are welcome!
Service of Remembrance will take place in Church on Sunday 9th November at 10.15am with the Act of Remembrance at 11 am by the War Memorial
‘All Souls’ Service Sun 2nd Nov 6pm
A gentle service of the Word, especially for those recently bereaved: to remember, to give thanks and to offer prayers of comfort.
As part of the service, we traditionally read the names of the departed whose funerals we’ve held in this last year. If you would like us to include other departed loved ones please add their names (in CAPS) to the lists at the back of church.
There is something for everyone to enjoy in Church over the next few days! Please come and support as many of these events as possible, all while having a good time!
