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ST. MARY'S MATTERS
Pancakes made by the attendees of the Branch out and Cook course
Dear Friends
This week another small group celebrates coming back together after over a year of separation - this time with a Champagne Afternoon Tea! (Thank you to the Friday Morning small group for the great photos.)

Continuing in our summer sermon series on "God's Green List", this Sunday, we'll be visiting The Mountain (the place of vision), with James sharing from Mark's gospel  

Thanking God for good things, good company and sunshine this summer.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord gives grace and glory;
No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 84:11

Setting a Watch

continues daily at 6am and 6pm
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PICTURES OF THE WEEK
The Friday Morning Home Group celebrating in suitable style after 18 months of weekly zoom Bible Studies. First get-together in person since lockdown began - a Champagne Afternoon Tea! 

STAFF NEWS
We will be sad to see Ursula retire at the end of August, but there is exciting news, as we will be welcoming Martha back as our Teaching Pastor.

If you don't know Martha, she spent several years with us recently as a curate, completing her training in the summer of 2020. Martha will take up her role on September 1st 2021 and will be with us as a House for Duty priest, working two days a week and on Sundays, initially for the period of one year.

Martha has already shaped our summer and autumn preaching series and we look forward to her encouragement over the next year.

FULL MOON HIKE
Sunday 22 August marks the return of our ever-popular Full-Moon Hike! 

This time we start from the Parish Rooms, Church Street, at 8.00pm, walk via Salford and Little Rollright and return around 12.00 midnight! 

Drinks and hot-dogs will be provided halfway round the 7-mile route.  To confirm a place for this event, please contact John Marshall (07733 036741 marshall.john@outlook.com).
Info and consent form

CHURCH AWAY DAY
Let's Celebrate Being Together!

WATCH THIS WEEK'S AWAY DAY VIDEO

A chance to relax, eat and worship together away from the usual routine of church. With crafts, creativity, climbing wall and bouncy castle, lawn games and tea & cakes.

Everyone is welcome and we'd love you to join us. Come ready to celebrate!

Sign up using the link below.
Sign-up for the Away Day

THE BRANCH IS RECRUITING!

Creche Worker/Caretaker role

At The Branch we aim to provide spaces where people can grow, connect and step into playing a meaningful part in their community.

We are looking for an individual who can be a part of this work by helping to create a clean, safe and welcoming space for those joining our courses and activities, and by caring for our visitors’ pre-school children.
Find out more and apply

RESOURCE OF THE WEEK

Book: The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp

"How in the world do you live with your one broken heart..?"

Author of "One Thousand Gifts", Ann Voskamp shares, in her unique poetic style, what it means to feel broken, live in brokenness, and to give out of brokenness. Starting from her own every day life as an adult, and reflecting on her difficult experiences as a teenager, Voskamp reminds us that brokenness can serve as an identifier with Christ, and that God's gifts of grace, intimacy and community are found even in the broken places, as we give ourselves to Him.
The Broken Way
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