Church Life/If you are joining us in the building please bring a face covering with you (unless exempt). Please see later for an update following 19 July. We will continue to live-stream services online. For live-stream services please use our Facebook page or St Martin’s Digital.

Showing Care in Covid/As the virus is still a very real threat for many in our congregation, we are inviting everyone to continue to care for each other by wearing a mask indoors and following other social distancing measures. From this week, we are also offering rapid flow tests (available from the stewards) in order to test ourselves before coming into church.

Church Opening Daily/The church is open daily 9am-5pm (apart from Tuesdays for recordings, open from 12pm on Wednesdays. From 10 August, the church will also be open Tuesdays from 12pm). You are welcome to join us for Morning Prayer on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Online Worshipers/We invite everyone to join with us in lighting a candle at the start of our worship to symbolise the presence of the Holy Spirit in each home, as well as in church.

Sunday Eucharist/10am This week we will be joined by the Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN). They are bringing with them a boat as part of their relay and a symbol of the rising sea levels, the movement of peoples and the need for climate justice for all and a future of hope. YCCN coordinator Florence Wright will be speaking about their journey and vision.

Prayers of Healing/weekly after the 10am Eucharist from September. Team training is on Thursday 16 September 7pm on Zoom for new and existing team members.

Fortnightly Children’s Church returns mid-September when they will be meeting weekly on Sundays in the Ho Ming Wah Centre 12-12.45pm. For children aged 4-12. For more information email sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.

Baptism and Confirmation/Sunday 26 September Anyone wanting to be confirmed or baptised at St Martin’s, please get in contact ASAP with sian.conway@smitf.org

Join a Team? Our Wednesday and Sunday services depend on teams who facilitate our online and in-the-building worship. Would you like to be a steward either in our church building or from your home? Full training and support given with flexible dates. For more information email sian.conway@smitf.org.

Save the Date 1-6 November! To coincide with the international conference on the environment, COP26, St Martin’s will be having a cross-site festival of events to inform and inspire us all about our part to play in engaging with the environment.

Media and Wider Ministry
Sam Wells provided Radio 4’s Thought for the Day on Friday 6 August, click here to listen again.