Church Life/If you are joining us in the building please bring a face covering with you (unless exempt). 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. Rapid flow tests are available from the stewards in order to test ourselves before coming into church.
Road Closures/Sunday 5 September for the Cancer Research UK Summer Run, please allow plenty of time for travel. The closures mean there will be no parking at church.
Help us find our new Worship Coordinator We are recruiting for a full time senior administrator to organise the logistics of our worship. Click here for more details, please share it on your platforms and help us find the right person for this important role.
Prayers of Healing/weekly after the 10am Eucharist from October. Team training is on Thursday 16 September 7pm on Zoom for new and existing team members.
Baptism and Confirmation/Sunday 26 September Anyone wanting to be confirmed or baptised at St Martin’s, please get in contact by Wednesday 1 September with sally.hitchiner@smitf.org.
Autumn Lecture Series/September-November ‘After the ravages of the pandemic, it’s time for church and society to learn to dream again’, Revd Dr Sam Wells. Tickets for attending in-person and to watch online are available from www.smitf.org/lectures. There is the chance both to buy a ticket which helps to make this programme possible, make a donation, or request a free ticket so this series can be open to all.
Volunteer Opportunities/Stewarding online or in the building, helpING others access worship, email sian.conway@smitf.org for more details.
Being With Creation/Tuesday 14 September, 6.30pm focuses on our relationship with the natural world, the ecological crisis and what a better relationship with God’s world would entail. There are a couple of spaces left on this 10 week course, please 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.
Christian Saguyan, Sheppard Scholar for Congregational Development, has been accepted to train for ordination in Oxford. His last Sunday with us will be 5 September. If you’d like to contribute towards his gift please contact sian.conway@smitf.org.
Fortnightly Children’s Church returns in the autumn 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.
Media and Wider Ministry
Sally Hitchiner has written an article in The Times newspaper’s Saturday supplement (28 August) about the lessons we have learnt from the pandemic.
Sally is also on the news panel on Times Radio this morning from 9.00-9.30am. Click here to listen.
