Author: Glen

We’ve two guest speakers from missions we support to look forward to this month at Cross Street:

Family church this month is on the 26th October.

Half Term Closures:

No Toddlers group 29th October and no Lighthouse 24th or 31st of October.

Coming up in November

Autumn Fair is on the 1st of November, so start collecting any unwanted clothes, toys, books and bric-a-brac. Money raised from the fair will go to support the children we sponsor in Columbia, Africa, India and Bulgaria.

Summer Holiday Changes

Last Lighthouse club before the school summer holidays is Friday the 11th and restarts after the break.

The last toddlers group before the school holidays is Wednesday the 16th and again, will restart in the Autumn term.

Bible study continues in July on thursday evenings @ 7.15pm with ‘The Romans’ course – see the first session on YouTube HERE.
We will pause our bible study course for August before resuming in September.

Summer Fair

Don’t forget its our summer fair on the 26th July 9.30-2pm.
All proceeds for the summer fair will go to support ‘World of Worth’.
Offers of help on the day, clothes, shoes, toys, books, bric-a-brac e.t.c. are all very welcome. Why not have a summer clear out for any unwanted or unused items.
Donations of cakes and treats also very welcome nearer to the fair date. More details can be found HERE.

June 15th is our all-age family father’s day service starting at 10.30 followed by tea and cookies

There are five sessions:
– Thursday 19th June 7.30pm at New Life Church, West Road.
– Friday 20th June 7.30pm at All Saints St Stephen’s Church, Brook Street.
– Saturday morning prayer breakfast 8.30am at St Johns Community Centre, Buglawton. (Please book breakfast meeting for catering purposes on either 01260 409 039 or rector@allsaintscongleton.org.uk)
– Saturday 21st June at 7.30at All Saints St John the Evangelist (Buglawton).
– Sunday 22nd June 6pm here at Cross Street Church (this replaces our sunday evening service).

More details can be found HERE

Please note our normal Bible study on June the 19th is cancelled as there is the Bible week session on at New Life Church.

Upcoming Events

The date for our summer fair has been confirmed as the 26th July – start looking for any unwanted clothes/ books/ toys/ brick-a-brac!

We will also be having a taster of the “Christianity Explored” course taster by Rico Tice in one of our sunday evening services. Christianity Explored is a relaxed and informal way of sharing the best news you can ever hear, and gives people space and time to think about the big questions of life. The full course will run later in the year. Find out more about this course HERE

All our usual activities have now returned to normal after the Easter Break and our bible study evenings on Thursdays continue meet in person at the church as the evenings are now lighter.

We heard all about the excellent work of the Albanian Evangelical Mission this month, and raised £220 for their work. Read more about the AEM here: https://aemission.org/

Our all-age family service (a child friendly service for all the family) is on Sunday 25th May 10.30-11.15 am followed by coffee and cookies.

Half-term is at the end of the month, so no toddlers group on the 28th May and no Lighthouse group on 23rd or 30th of May.

Remember to keep your diaries clear for Congleton Bible Week 19th- 22nd June!! For more details click HERE.

Easter is nearly with us and toddlers and lighthouse will pause for the two weeks of school holidays (so no toddlers group 9th or 16th of April and no Lighthouse club on 11th or 18th of April).

Our prayer meeting on wednesday and bible study on thursday will also pause for Easter week (16th and 17th respectively). Bible study on thursdays will now be in person over the lighter months.

Everything pausing for Easter resumes week starting 21st April.

Our Spring Fair is on 9.30-1.30 12th April, come and bag a bargain and a cake. Donations of bric a brac/clothes/books/cakes etc all very welcome.

Easter Services

Good Friday Service: 10.30am. There is also a Congleton town centre open air service at 12.00 noon.

Easter Sunday Breakfast 9.00am followed by our Easter Sunday morning service with a 6.00 evening service as usual. Please do let us know if you want to come to our Easter breakfast for catering purposes.

And to end the month we have Andrew Calvert’s retirement service on the 27th April at 10.30

This month we welcomed Congleton Unplugged to our church and the sales of teas and coffees and donations raised over £200 for the Gathehu School in Kenya. See more about this project HERE.

Next month we have:

• Our spring fair on the 12th of April – so time to get sorting and start bring down any unwanted clothes/ books/ toys/ bric a brac etc.
  
• Andrew Calvert’s retirement service at the end of the month.

This Month

Our big news this month is that our new pastor David Robey started on the 2nd February and this month we are blessed with two pastors. Pastor Andrew Calvert will formally retire at the end of February after 38 years, starting as our assistant pastor back in 1987, but will remain on our church council and still play an active part in our church life.

Pastor David Robey’s official induction service takes place on 23rd February at 10.30am.

Children’s weekday activities will be paused for half term, so no toddlers group on Wednesday 19th February, and no Lighthouse on the 14th and the 21st of February.

Our Thursday evening Bible study remains on Zoom during the dark evenings.

Upcoming Events:

March: Women’s Conference at Lifestream Church in Knypersley on Saturday 29th March – Please let Karen know if you are interested in going. (It’s £16 if you book by 8th February. It’s £20 if you book in after that).

April: Church Spring Fair 12th April. More details on Easter Services to follow.

Wishing every one a Happy New Year!

All our activities that stopped over the Christmas period are now back up and running.

Bible study on Thursday evening will remain on Zoom over the winter months – if you would like to join, please contact us and we can send you the link out.

Sunday 19th we will have our AGM after our Sunday morning service.

Our new pastor Dave Robey and his wife Corinna should be joining us from February, with our current pastor Andrew Calvert continuing for a month to help show him the ropes and hand everything over.

Christmas Holidays

Toddler Group, Lighthouse (primary schoolchildren) and our Thursday bible study have now paused for the Christmas holidays.
This is the last week for Wednesday Prayer Group (18th December 1-2 pm)

Everything will start back up again week starting Monday 6th January.

Christmas Activities:

Thursday 19th December: Town Carol Service 7.30 pm (St Peters Church)

Friday 20th December: Nourish 12.00

Sunday 22nd December:
10.30 am Morning Service with Communion
6.00 pm Carols by Candlelight (with Rode Health Silver Band)

Wednesday 25th December: 10-11 am Christmas Morning Service

Sunday 29th December:
10.30 am Morning service with communion
No evening service

Tuesday 31st December: New Years Eve Celebration