Notices

  Contact sheets are usually produced weekly, and are dated for a specific Sunday.
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Focus sheets are usually produced monthly, and are usually available from the First Sunday of the month.
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Previous Month
  Aug 2010

HOUSE PARTY WEEKEND @ QUINTA - Jun09
Yes - the houseparty is all over now.......
but Click HERE to see pictures
and Click HERE to download the talks given by Jonathan and Anne Cooper.

RECORDING SERMONS
Sermons will now be recorded onto CD to make them available to more people.
The recordings will be left on the book library table for people to borrow.
Please return as soon as possible - so that others may also benefit.

SUNSHINE CAFE @ SWCC - every Tue 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Please drop in for lunch at the Sunshine Cafe at SWCC any Tuesday.
Two course meal for £1.50 to £2.50 - lots of choice!
Bring a friend or neighbor or someone who is lonely - they will make a good friend to chat with over lunch.
NO need to book!

BOOK OF TESTIMONIES
Would you like to tell the story of how you became a Christian or of how God has touched your life for the next Testimonies book?
Several more stories needed as soon as possible please.
E-mail to Graham Hume at testimonies @ hotmail.co.uk

PASTORAL CARE VISITING SCHEME
A team of trained church members is available to offer continued contact and support to those members of our congregation who are ill, short or long term, at home or in hospital, or housebound because of infirmity or age, and so can't get to church.
If you would like someone to visit you or if you know of someone else who might appreciate being visited - please contact the Church Centre.
Click HERE for more information.

OVER 18 AND UNFIT? every Thursday evening in the Centre
Come and join us for Badminton & Table Tennis - No previous experience required!
For more information contact Gladwin Duckworth

SMALL GROUP WITH TODDLERS
This group is aimed to support those parents who would like to be involved in a small group but find it difficult to get out in the evening because of young children (or for those without children if you don't mind a group with little ones in it!). We meet in the Music Room each Thurs (term time) from 9.30am-11.00am. ALSO Have you any sit and ride toys you could donate - Little Fishes could also use them. Contact Emma Handley.

SHRINKING THE FOOTPRINT
The Church of England has over 16,000 churches, many of which are far removed from the sustainable standards used in today’s building industry. Even churches built in recent years often lack insulation, lighting & heating facilities now available to ensure maximum efficiency providing minimum costs, maintenance & waste. Saving energy in church buildings is going to be a challenge but it can & needs to be done. Shrinking the Footprint is the Church of England’s national campaign to enable the Church’s members & institutions to address - in faith, practice, & mission - the issue of climate change.
It will comprise a growing series of initiatives & partnerships developing at the national level but aimed at supporting individuals, parishes and dioceses wanting to respond to this challenge locally.
Measuring our Footprint - the Church of England’s National Energy Audit, seeks to fulfil the General Synod motion to encourage all dioceses & parishes to reduce their consumption by a measurable amount. We at STMM have taken part in this exercise, undertaking a mini-audit of energy used in 2005, which was repeated in 2007 so as to identify any reductions in energy used.
A report of OUR footprint can be read by clicking HERE
More information can be found at www.shrinkingthefootprint.cofe.anglican.org or contact our coordinator David Shimmings.

MAGAZINE and ‘THE BUILDING OF FAITH’
The 'Building of Faith’ was the title given to our major project between 1992-1996 – ‘reordering our buildings to meet our needs’. This included a change to the furniture and layout of the inside of the church building and the building of the Church Centre. The cost was well over £700,000 (paid for almost entirely by us – the Church Family). The prayer life of the church and our faith was stretched to its limit as we faced many challenges together.

HEARING LOOP
The church is fitted with a loop system for those people who wear hearing aids. If you are one of these please let the person on the sound desk know if the loop was good or bad during the service so that we can look into improving the provision if necessary or contact Mike Arnold.

CONTACT SHEET
If you wish to put a notice in the weekly contact sheet please hand it into the office by no later than the Tuesday morning before the following Sunday. Alternatively you can e-mail it to the office (office @ stmarysaom.org). It would be helpful if you could specify the date you want it to start from and for how many consecutive weeks you wish it to run for.
See Publication Details below. Thank you.

FOCUS SHEET
If you wish to put a notice in the monthly focus sheet please hand it into the office by no later than the last Tuesday morning before the following Month. Alternatively you can e-mail it to the office (office @ stmarysaom.org). It would be helpful if you could specify the month you want it to appear.
See Publication Details below. Thank you.

ARTICLES for PUBLICATION
Any articles for publication (in the Contact Sheet / Focus Sheet / Website) can now be sent via email to (office @ stmarysaom.org)
If you are submitting a photo or a graphic to accompany your article please send it as a separate (attached) jpg/gif/png/psd file.