NOTICE BOARD PARISH OF ST PAUL AND ST LUKE, TRANMERE We collect: used postage stamps for Bransby Horse Rescue, also dried and Old Chester Rd, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Wirral CH42 3XD tinned goods for Wirral Foodbank. If you aren’t sure where to leave a donation, www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12567 www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Tranmere-101827914953841 Clergy Team Contacts: Rev Mike Loach 0151 609 0943 (Priest-In-Charge) speak to one of the Churchwardens. Rev Eunice Blackmore 0151 648 5343 Fr Andrew Mannings 0151 512 5353 (Hon Assistant Priest) Christ Church YouTube channel live stream their 10am Sunday service every Fr George Roach 0151 645 4258 (Curate) week. Search for "Christ Church HB" on YouTube or follow the link: Sunday 25 July 2021, Eighth Sunday of Trinity https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPD_Phsd0o2MYNudgbzFUzg Welcome Fr Andrew and Helen We pray for those we know who are sick or in need of our prayers at this time: Ted Ashley, Vivien Ashley, Ann Brown, Kathryn Brown, Janet Cooper, The annual review is currently taking place of those in need of our prayers, Eleanor Cowell, Matthew Culshaw, David Dagger, Alf Fletcher, Anthony listed on the front of the weekly pew sheet. As some of the names are not Fletcher, Esmee Goulbourn, Alison Greer, Anna Hawley, Sue Irvine, Clifford necessarily familiar to us because they are family or friends of parishioners, Kingsbury, Brenda Mason, Andrew Miller, Fr Andrew Mannings, Mo Parkes, Diane can you please let Elaine know ASAP if they are to remain on the prayer list. Randle, Lisa Radcliffe, Pat Roberts, Mike Robinson, Archie Stephenson, John Strefford, Izzy Smyth, Gary Tanner, Aimee Ward, Fiona Ward, Anne Wise. May the presence of Christ bring them health and wholeness. As some of the above names are not necessarily familiar to us because they are family or friends of parishioners, Elaine would be Rotas & Readings for Sunday 1 August at the 10am Parish Eucharist grateful if you would let her know if they are well again and can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you Sides Person Money Counting Reader Intercessor We pray for the housebound:- Pam Ball, Lynne Beetson, Kath Cook, Sheila Jenny Randle Sue Cyril Beryl Smith Jenny Randle French, Joan Gibson, Olive Harrod, Betty McGuigan, Anne Roberts, Connie Taylor, McKenna Jordon 1 Corinthians 15: 1 - 11 We pray for all those loved ones recently departed:- Holly Powell, Hilda If you are unable to take your turn on the rota please swap with someone else and amend the master rota on the wall at the back of church. Price, June Taylor, A Vicar goes to the dentist to get a new set of false teeth. On the We pray for those whose anniversary falls at this time:- first Sunday after he gets his new teeth, he talks for only eight Mary Illidge, Gertie King, Rene Vague, Ann Louisa George, Olive Cannon, Emma minutes. On the second Sunday, he talks for only ten minutes. Mullock, Frederick William Ward But the following Sunday, he talks for 2 hours and 48 minutes. SERVICES NEXT WEEK AT ST PAUL AND ST LUKE The congregation had to mob him to get him down from the pulpit and they asked him what had happened to cause that. The Church is open for Private Prayer Monday to Wednesday 10am – Noon Morning Prayer 9 am – Monday a combined service via Zoom with Christ Church. The Vicar explained that the first Sunday his gums hurt so bad he couldn't talk Tuesday and Thursday Morning Prayer services are cancelled this week due to for more than 8 minutes. The second Sunday his gums hurt too much again to holidays. talk for more than 10 minutes. But, on the third Sunday, he put his wife's teeth Wednesday 28 July 7:30pm – Holy Communion in by mistake and he couldn't shut up... Sunday 1 August 10:00am – Parish Eucharist, NOTICE BOARD PARISH OF ST PAUL AND ST LUKE, TRANMERE The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, has encouraged churches and individuals to continue to take precautions to protect the vulnerable Krafty Pals – Resumes on Thursday 5 August. We meet weekly in the Parish Hall from 2pm – 3:30. The fee is £2.00 per meeting (inclusive of from Covid-19. tea/coffee and biscuits). All welcome. The meeting is subject to any Covid restrictions which may be in place at the time of each event. Although Covid restrictions have been lifted, please take precautions to protect your neighbour, not just yourself, and especially remember Pals Fellowship Group for the Young at Heart those more vulnerable than we consider ourselves to be. We will The Pals Fellowship Group will begin again on Tuesday 3 continue to wear masks, have only every other pew in use, and not sing August 2021, with an afternoon tea, catch up on news from hymns during our services, refreshments after the service will not yet the group and table top games. The Group meets on the first be served. Tuesday of each month. The fee is £2.00 per meeting (inclusive of tea/coffee and biscuits). Hilda Price’s Funeral will take place in church tomorrow Monday 26 July, at 12:30pm. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light The speaker for the September meeting is Liz Flynn a trustee of Jackson’s shine upon her. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. Animal Rescue (formerly Wirral Animal Sanctuary). The Wildlife Centre at Jackson’s is who we support with our newspaper and towel collections Welcomers Team – We would like to have a team of people to be during the autumn – spring months. ‘Welcomers’, that’s someone who stands in the porch area every Sunday welcoming people personally into the building. If anyone can help with Don’t be shy, please come along and join us. “There are no strangers here; this very important ministry, please speak to the Churchwardens. (This Only friends you haven't yet met.” (William Butler Yeats) The meeting is is a different job to the Sides People giving out the hymn books etc) subject to any Covid restrictions which may be in place at the time of each event. Vestry Team – Would you like to join the Vestry Team, to have a say in how we present St Paul’s to visitors and our community and how this changes Silence is the absence of noise, but peace is the presence of God. throughout the seasons? If so, please speak to Elaine or Fr George. An initial meeting is organised for Wednesday 8 September at 2pm in church. Why not come along and find out more. Praying might be asking God fervently to send rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. June Taylor – We received the news this week, that our sister in Christ, June Taylor passed away on Tuesday. We send our condolences to Connie and her family. May the soul’s of all the faithful departed rest in peace, and rise in glory. Details of the funeral will be shared when known. NOTICE BOARD PARISH OF ST PAUL AND ST LUKE, TRANMERE AUGUST SERMON SERIES A very BIG Thank You to everyone who helped in During August it has become the custom of the preachers at Christ whatever capacity to make the Church to follow a sermon series rather than the lectionary and this Summer Fair a success. People have worked hard, donating, collecting, year is no exception, and this year they’re introducing it to St Paul’s as sorting, setting up, washing up, taking down, advertising, and 1001 well. other jobs too numerous to mention. The list of people is too many to mention, special thanks also to our friends at Christ Church for their Previously they’ve looked at characters, a letter from Paul….. However, support. Covid has brought to the forefront the often taboo subject of death – and therefore, it was thought to be good to reconsider the Christian But remember it is only 132 days to the Christmas Fair on Saturday 4 perspective of death – and how Christ’s resurrection changes December!! It’s never too early to begin thinking and planning ahead! everything and we can have hope. The Archbishop of York, The Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell presided at a 1 Corinthians Chapter 15 neatly divides into 5 sections (the number of double consecration service at York Minster on Monday 19 July 2021. Sundays in August). The Venerable Julie Conalty, former Archdeacon of August 1 Corinthians Gospel reading Sunday Chapter 15 Tonbridge, was consecrated as the Bishop of 1 Verses 1 - 11 Luke 24: 36-49 Birkenhead and the Reverend Canon Sam Corley, former Rector of Leeds was consecrated as the 8 Verses 12 - 20 John 20:24-31 Bishop of Stockport. 15 Verses 20 - 34 Mark 13:24-37 Opera director Sir Graham Vick recently died following complications arising from Covid. Graham was the younger of two sons of Muriel and Arnold Vick. 22 Verses 35 - 49 Mark 12: 18-27 Muriel owned a wool shop at the corner of Crofton and Park Roads in Tranmere. It is thought Graham may have been a Cub Scout at St Paul’s when 31 Verses 50 - 58 Matthew 28:16-20 the 18th Birkenhad Cubs and Scouts were based here. The wool shop closed around 1969 and became a sweet shop before being converted into a house. Graham’s elder brother Hedley Vick was lead guitarist in the group The Swinging Bluejeans 1975/6. Thanks to John Thomas for making the connection with this one, his mum Peggy would occasionally buy wool from Mrs Vick’s shop.