Christmas Services

Christmas Eve Service - Parish service at St Thomas Leesfield 6.30pm

Christmas Day Service - Parish Service at St Agnes 9.15am

New Years Day Service - Parish Service at St Thomas 11am

Please join us and celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Parish Services & Christmas Fair - Sunday 18th December 11am & 6.30pm

Parish Service on Sunday 18th December 11am in St Thomas Leesfield Church with Bishop Mark; followed by a Christmas Fair in the school hall with stalls, refreshments and Father Christmas Grotto. Please come along and join us. Sunday School in the Annexe building for this week only.

Parish Carol Service on Sunday 18th December 6.30pm in St Thomas Leesfield Church with Rev David Halford followed by the drawing of the Parish Raffle.

Please come along and join us at both services.

Toy Service - Sunday 4th December

Just a reminder that we have Toy Services this Sunday 4th December in our churches. Please donate toys in good condition for those less fortunate than ourselves.

This year the toys are being donated to Thresholds Women's Services which is the only women's refuge left in Oldham.

Please support this very needy cause and help make someone else's Christmas better than it otherwise might have been.

Thank you.

Easyfundraising - help raise funds for the parish and it won't cost you a penny!

www.easyfundraising.org.uk

 Easy Fundraising – Earn money for Church whilst shopping

St Thomas’ St Agnes’ & St Hugh - Leesfield

We have registered our Parish in the easyfundraising scheme to raise funds for Church.

If you do any shopping on line you can earn funds for Church by simply going to the website you want via the easyfundraising site, and the Company you are buying from will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to Parish funds. The percentage varies from 1 company to another;  e.g. Argos is .75% and Amazon is 2.5% so if lots of us do this it can make quite a difference to our fundraising.

All 3 Churches are registered together, so any of us can join in.

If you want to support us in this way, and we know a lot of you will be internet shopping for Christmas, the procedure is quite simple.

Just go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk, select register and complete your details. You will then be asked to select your charity, which is St Thomas’ St Agnes’ & St Hugh - Leesfield. When you have done this you will then select your shop, and will be taken to the same website that you would normally use.

All you need to do then is just shop as usual and easyfundraising will send us a quarterly cheque. Simple!!!

If you want to know more please just speak to Liz Dent or Judith Knott.

Please help us if you possibly can in this way. It could raise a lot of money for Church with very little effort.  

 Thank you

Remembrance Sunday - Sunday 13th November

The Parish Service this Sunday 13th November is at 9.15am in St Thomas Church Leesfield. (There are no services at any other churches in the parish).

This will be followed by all uniformed organisations and parishioners meeting on Thomas Street at 10.15am and walking down to the War Memorial at Lees Cemetery for the Remembrance Day Service.

Wear your poppies with pride

Churches Together in Lees & District - Advent Carol Service

Parish Harvest Service & Harvest Lunch - Sunday 9th October

Parish Harvest Service on Sunday 9th October 11am at St Thomas Church. Our new St Thomas Harvest Queen and retinue will be at the service as well as St Agnes Rose Queen and retinue, St Thomas Church Parade Uniformed Organisations with St Thomas School Choir & St Agnes School Choir singing at the end of the service along with both the Sunday Schools singing.

All Harvest donations gratefully appreciated going to Age Concern Oldham - non perishable food please - tins, packets etc. (No fresh fruit or vegetables)

The Parish Harvest Service will be followed by a Parish Harvest Lunch (Pie & Peas) in the school hall. Tickets now available for the Harvest Lunch from the Mothers' Union Committee. Adults £5.00 & Children £2.50.

All welcome. Please join us in our Harvest celebrations.

Rose Queen at Home - Saturday 8th October

St Agnes Rose Queen will be having their "At Home" on Saturday 8th October at St Agnes Church. All welcome!

Harvest Queen Crowning - Saturday 1st October

Our new Harvest Queen Abigail Jones will be crowned on Saturday 1^st October at 2pm in Church, followed by refreshments and stalls in the school hall. Abigail’s retinue is Jamie Lightfoot, Jada Thomas, Morgan George, Molly Middlehurst & Devon Linthwaite-Adair. Please come along and support them on this special day.

St Thomas Leesfield Sunday School

Welcome back! We will meet in the school hall at 11.00am on Sunday 11th September. This week we are learning about the Parable of the talents. Please think about your talents and share them with us on Sunday. 

Rev David Halford - Interim Ministry

Having been in interregnum for nearly 2 years, the vacancy for our parish priest is being advertised again nationally in September.

The Diocese are aware of how difficult a long term interregnum can be and so both Archdeacon Cherry Vann & Bishop Mark have been looking at ways they can help us in the meantime. 

 

As a result of this, Revd David Halford has agreed to offer an interim ministry in Leesfield from the beginning of September. David is an OLM, like Ruth, at St Anne’s Royton. He is a former Head Teacher and continues to work as an Ofsted inspector. Because of his work commitments, he will not be able to commit to anything regularly during the week, but will be with us most Sundays in the parish. David will be working closely with Ruth and both Roy & Neil, to help wherever he can and we look forward to David presiding and preaching at our services and joining us at our meetings and social events.

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David will be a huge blessing to the parish as we continue to wait for the right person to come along to be our parish priest. We welcome him and hope he will feel at home in our Parish whilst he is with us.

Judith Knott

PCC Secretary 

Lees & Hey Evening of Entertainment

Friday 9th September 8pm

Live Music Acts

Raffle, Stand-up Bingo & more

At Lees & Hey Conservative Club, Warrington St, Lees

Tickets £5 each from Roy Atkinson

In aid of church funds

Special thanks to the club for hosting this event

Please note: This is adults only as children are not allowed in the club on Friday evenings.

Parish Service

The only service in the parish this Sunday is a Parish Service at St Thomas 11am. All welcome!

Welcome to the Parish of Leesfield

Welcome to our new website and blog which will be kept up-to-date with all that is going on in the Parish of Leesfield in our 3 churches St Thomas, St Agnes & St Hugh.