Leesfield News
Here are a few details of what's going on across Leesfield Parish over the coming week or so. We hope you can join us in person, or follow our activities here on our blogspot or on our facebook pages.
The PCC is to meet at St Thomas’ on Monday 27th September at 7 pm, and we’ll be planning how we can safely hold as many of the services and events which happen at this time of year as possible. Please pray for us as we work through all the risk assessments to determine ways of growing our mission in the community whilst continuing to keep everyone safe.
Our Sunday services this week are at 9.15 am at St Agnes’, and 11 am at St Thomas’. The following Sunday (3rd Oct.) is the Parish Harvest Festival, and we will have a joint service at St Thomas’ Church at 10 am. Donations of non-perishable food will be greatly appreciated, to be passed on to Impact Community Church, Hollinwood, which supports homeless people and those most in need in the local community. To find out more about how you might help Impact Community Church just click on this link - Impact Community Church.co.uk/donate
The Tuesday Holy Communion service is at 10 am at St Thomas’, and Worship for all Generations will continue at St Agnes’ on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6.30 pm. If you’re not able to be with us in person yet, a reading, reflection and prayers are published on this page each Sunday, and there will even be a couple of hymns that you can sing along to at home.
Our friends from Churches Together in Lees and District are also planning a return to many of the services and events which we have enjoyed together for several years. Although the ministers have been meeting regularly on Zoom, we haven’t been able to hold an open meeting since October 2019! Please do come along and join us at the Salvation Army hall, Roundthorn at 7 pm on the 5th October as we plan for events such as Remembrance Sunday, the Week of Christian Unity and the Lent Lunches – all are welcome.
We're thrilled to say that the Food Co-operative at our near neighbours St Barnabas has been adopted as a community charity by Tesco Oldham. If you’re shopping at Tesco you can pick up a little blue token at the checkout (including the self-serve checkouts) and pop it into the section of the collection box to “vote” for St Barnabas – they could receive up to £1500 from Tesco for their project. The voting starts on the 1st October and will run until the 31st December, so please do support this tremendous effort as you shop.
