Today/Crèche at St Martin’s. For the 0-4 age group, with trained childcare leaders, takes place in the Austen Williams Room every Sunday. Please ask a steward to show you where to go.

Today/Children’s C-Club Programme/11.30am, Dick Sheppard Chapel. Through craft and games, we’ll be thinking about what wisdom is, and why Solomon asked for it.

Today/Prayers for Healing with anointing and laying on of hands are offered by our healing team at the 10.00am service each Sunday morning at the front of the church near the altar.

Summer pattern of services. Bread For the World is continuing through the summer at 6.3opm on Wednesday with a soloist but the supper and groups are taking a break, resuming on 5 September. Until the end of August Mondays at 4.30pm is a service of Evening Prayer in the DSC and our Wednesday 1pm Eucharist is a said service.

This Week/Queen Eleanor Cycle Ride/Monday 27 August. The 24 cyclists will be arriving at the West Door of Westminster Abbey at around 3.30pm. Why not come and greet them, and join them for a short service by Eleanor’s tomb in the Abbey at 4pm, and a celebration back at the Connection afterwards. You can still sponsor them at https://mydonate.bt.com/events/qecr/457010

Next Week/Funeral of Dorothy Cone/Tuesday 28 August/ 12.30pm, Islington Crematorium, 278 High Road, London, N2 9AG. All are welcome to attend Dorothy Cone’s funeral. For more information, please email katherine.hedderly@smitf.org

Coming Up/Club Wednesday/Wednesday 5 September. Club Wednesday returns after the summer break on 5 September.

Coming Up/It’s All Church! HeartEdge Annual Conference 2018/Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 September, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Lambeth Palace. Cost: HeartEdge members rate – £79, non-members rate – £99. Tickets include conference programme, refreshments & lunch, plus complimentary Jazz on evening of 12 Sept. Registration: Book tickets at https://tickets.myiknowchurch.co.uk/gb/ODYyLTU/t

Coming Up/Marketplace Sunday and Annual Review of Activities/Sunday 16 September, 11.30am, Parish Hall and Lightwell. Marketplace Sunday is our annual fair for all programmes, committees, initiatives, groups and activities (large and small) across the SMITF family. If your group or activity would like a stall on Marketplace Sunday and/or you would like a report on it to be included in the Annual Review of Activities, please email Chris and Catherine on churchwardens@smitf.org registering your interest. They’ll then let you know next steps.

Coming Up/This year’s Autumn Lecture Series Encounter/From 17 September, 7.00-8.30pm. Lectures will include: Encountering the Other: Rowan Williams (17 Sept); Encountering Islam: Imam Ataul, Mujeeb Rashed, Sam Wells (9 Oct); Encountering London: Sarah Mullally, Jo Bailey Wells (15 Oct); Encountering Jesus of Nazareth: Mark Oakley, Br Sam SSF, Rose Hudson-Wilkin (29 Oct); Encountering the Sacred: Neil MacGregor with Richard Coles, Ben Okri and Nicola Green (5 Nov); Woven Gold in Concert (18 Nov); and Encountering God: Justin Welby in conversation with Sam Wells (19 Nov). Flyers are available at the back of the church or book a free place at stmartininthefields.eventbrite.com.

Coming Up/Something Worth Sharing/13-14 October, St Martin-in-the-Fields. A weekend of events marking our seventh annual conference on Disability & Church, a partnership with Inclusive Church Details and registration – https://www.inclusive-church.org/disability-conference-2018. To find out more or get involved, speak to Fiona MacMillan or Jonathan Evens, or email disability@smitf.org.

Coming Up/Support our St Martin-in-the-Fields Choir/September. The Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields are travelling to South Africa in September for a ten-day tour of exciting choral collaboration in support of an important new project to help disadvantaged young South Africans gain access to higher education. They will sing alongside the choirs of the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin in central Johannesburg, the famous Holy Cross Church in Soweto, and St John’s Anglican College and the University of Johannesburg. Our choir contribute so much to the life of St Martin’s – let’s help them to raise the final £5000. Please sponsor at: https://smitfchoir2018.everydayhero.com/uk/The-Choir-of-SMITF.

Sunday Refreshments and Mug Ministry/We would very much like more help from the congregation to join a team serving tea, coffee and biscuits, and providing hospitality after our 10am service on Sundays. If you are able to help once a month by joining a team, please could you let Bronwyn or Andrew know, or contact Georgie Illingworth on 020 7766 1143 or email Georgina.Illingworth@smitf.org. There will be a meeting to train new helpers on Sunday 9 September.

First Sheppard Scholar/Many congratulations to Georgie Illingworth who has been appointed as the first Sheppard Scholar – our new Pastoral Assistant scheme for HeartEdge churches – at St Martin’s, and who will begin working in that role from September.

Pastoral Assistant/Francesco Aresco has been appointed Pastoral Assistant from September 2018. Francesco is Italian. He studied for an MA in Classics at University College London. For the last year he has been Pastoral assistant at St Michael’s Camden Town.

GDPR Regulations/We need consent from all individuals who wish to continue to receive communications from St Martin’s. If you have not received a consent form, please contact our Church Coordinator, Helena Tarrant, at helena.tarrant@smitf.org/020 7766 1126.

Children and Young People. We aim to provide a safe environment for children and young people through our Child Protection Policy. The Child-Line Helpline is 0800 1111.

Join the Occasional Singers of St Martin’s Once a month, the Occasional Singers lead the music at 10am Parish Eucharist, and we are looking for new members. Please email choirs@smitf.org if you would like to know more.

Sacred Moments. A weekly podcast from St Martin-in-the-Fields. Each Monday Revd Dr Sam Wells offers a short reflection, followed by a hymn or choral piece sung by St Martin’s Voices. To listen, visit www.soundcloud.com/sacred_moments or subscribe via iTunes podcasts.