News update 27th October

Don't forget to put your clocks back on Saturday night or you'll be an hour early for church.

Choir practice is at St Thomas', 7 pm on Monday, you don't have to be a great singer, just want to sing!

Next Thursday's "Worship for all Generations" is about Jesus feeding the 5000. Everyone is most welcome to come along.

The Ladies of Leesfield Coffee Morning on Saturday 2nd November is in the community room from 10.30 am to 12 noon, hosted by Pat.

Next Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day in our morning services, and have a service for All Souls, 4 pm at St Thomas'.

Newsletter 20th October

Newsletter – 20th & 27th October 2019

This newsletter covers the next 2 weeks as half term starts on the 25th October.

If you haven’t yet completed your “Income Survey Form” you will need to do so by 27th October at the latest. Each year the Diocese calculates the amount which it requires from each parish for the Parish Share, based on the number of people attending our services and the confidential Income Surveys. It’s really important that everyone completes a form, especially if your own personal income is quite low, so please do fill in a form and place it in the box at the back of church.

After today’s service Harvest Queen Annie and her retinue invite you to their Afternoon Tea in the school hall at 1 pm. Tickets cost £8 per adult, £5 per child and are available now from Karen or the retinue mums. There will also be tombolas and a raffle, so please do come and join the fun.

Then at 3 pm up at St John’s Church, Hey we have Churches Together Songs of Praise. Members of all the churches have chosen some of their favourite hymns, which we will sing together and learn a bit more about, so do come along and have a good sing.  

The Buildings Committee meets tomorrow evening, 21st October, 7.30 pm at St Agnes’.

Our next Choir practice will be at 7 pm on Monday 28th October at St Thomas’. Everyone is really welcome to come and join us.

The Ladies of Leesfield Coffee Morning on Saturday 2nd November will be hosted by Pat and held in St Thomas’ Community Room from 10.30 am to noon. All are welcome at the Ladies’ events, so please feel free to bring a friend.

On Saturday 16th November Roy and Audrey are organising a Parish Day Trip to York. Full details will be available nearer the time, but if you are interested please could you let Roy and Audrey know.

The next two “Worship for all Generations” services at 6.30 pm on Thursday at St Thomas’ are the remaining ones of a series of four focusing on miracles. This week’s theme is “Jesus - fisher of men” and the following week “Feeding the 5000”. The services are non-Eucharistic and last just over half an hour, so if you haven’t been to one yet why not give it a go? 

The e-mail deadline for the next edition of “Voice” magazine is Sunday 10th November, but as we’ll be away on holiday please could we have any hand-written articles by Sunday 27th October.

Items for the newsletter, website and facebook pages to Liz (lizzy.dent@googlemail.com) whenever you want to send. Lots of lovely pictures please!

Newsletter 13th October

Newsletter – 13th  October 2019

Today is “Sausage Sunday” at St Agnes’, so please do stay and enjoy a sausage butty with your cuppa after the service. Sausage butties cost £2 each, and the proceeds go towards Rose Queen Freya’s fundraising for church.

Also today is the first week when we will be asking everybody to complete the “Income Survey Forms”. Each year the Diocese calculates the amount which it requires from each parish for the Parish Share, based on the number of people attending our services and the confidential Income Surveys. It’s really important that everyone completes a form, especially if your own personal income is quite low, so please do fill in a form and place it in the box at the back of church.

At 7.30 pm on Wednesday 16th October at Springhead Congregational Church, Churches Together have their Open  Meeting, to which everyone is invited and we plan our joint services and events.

One of these joint services will take place at 3 pm next Sunday (20th October) at St John’s Church, Hey - Churches Together Songs of Praise. Members of all the churches have chosen some of their favourite hymns, which we will sing together and learn a bit more about, so do come along and have a good sing.  

This week’s “Worship for all Generations” at 6.30 pm on Thursday at St Thomas’ is the second of a series of four focusing on miracles. This week’s theme is “Jesus walks on the water”. The services are non-Eucharistic and last just over half an hour, so if you haven’t been to one yet why not give it a go?

After the Thursday service at 7.30 pm in the Community Room, the Ladies of Leesfield invite you to join in their Fun Games Night, and then on Saturday morning from 10.30 am to 12 noon they have Tea & Toast. All are welcome at the Ladies’ events, so please feel free to bring a friend.

Harvest Queen Annie and her retinue are really looking forward to their first fundraising event of the year, an Afternoon Tea in the school hall at 1 pm next Sunday 20th October. Tickets cost £8 per adult, £5 per child and are available now from Karen or the retinue mums. There will also be tombolas and a raffle.

Items for the newsletter, website and facebook pages to Liz (lizzy.dent@googlemail.com) whenever you want to send. Lots of lovely pictures please!

Newsletter 6th October

Newsletter – 6th October 2019

Today we celebrate Harvest with a Parish Eucharist, 10 am at St Thomas’. Parish services are a great opportunity for worshippers from both churches to get together, so please do stay a while after the service.

The Ladies of Leesfield will be serving a Harvest Brunch of bacon or sausage muffins and a drink in the Community Room. Tickets cost £4 per adult or £2 per child. If brunch isn’t your thing you are most welcome to join us for coffee and a chat at the back of church.

There will be time to have a good, critical look at the condition of our church building in the light of the recent architect’s report, so we can consider how we may preserve our historic building to serve the community into the future.

People will also be on hand to help with any enquiries you may have about contributing to the life of the parish, in terms of time, talents and money. It’s been great to see so much interest shown recently in choir, bellringing and the new Thursday services, and it would be lovely to build on this by getting more people of all ages involved. Financial help is also needed to continue God’s work In this parish. 

St. Thomas' Leesfield Harvest Queen Annie was crowned last Sunday in a lovely service led by Jim Walker (Annie’s Grandad) and Revd Ruth Farrar. It was an amazing afternoon!! The girls all looked stunning in their gorgeous dresses and the boys very handsome. It was lovely that Rose Queen Freya and her retinue from St Agnes’ could join us, and also the Mayor of Oldham and Oldham Youth Mayor.

The Harvest Queens’ speeches and the prayers were read loud and clear. The Sunday School children (aged 3-10) sang “Any Dream Will Do” from Joseph, so beautifully, and the Oldham Band (Lees) played prior to the service before leading us in the hymns chosen by Harvest Queens Evie and Annie.

Many thanks to Lesley for making the stunning bouquet, Nicola at Children’s Boutique Lees for providing Annie's gorgeous dress and making the girls flower headbands, the Ladies of Leesfield for serving the refreshments, and to each & every one of you who helped, got involved, and came along and supported the event.

Annie and her retinue are really looking forward to an exciting year of representing the church, and fundraising events starting with an Afternoon Tea in the school hall at 1 pm on Sunday 20th October. Tickets cost £8 per adult, £5 per child and are available now from Karen or the retinue mums.

This week’s “Worship for all Generations” at 6.30 pm on Thursday at St Thomas’ is the first of a series of four focusing on miracles. This week it will be about “Water into Wine”. These services are great for all the family, so why not come along - you’re most welcome!

Items for the newsletter, website and facebook pages to Liz (lizzy.dent@googlemail.com) whenever you want to send. Lots of lovely pictures please!

Worship for all Generations