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Hi, Just to say the next Church 4 U will be on Saturday 4th July. This will be the annual Tandle Hill walk and picnic. We will meet on St Matthew's car park at 6.30, walk up to our picnic spot, share our food and drink, play cricket and rounders and walk back. We will be back about 9.15 but probably an idea to let your parents know that you will ring to confirm the time as we always seem to take much longer ambling back than we plan.

Can you bring something for the picnic please.

Looking forward to seeing you for this Church 4 U tradition.

Can you let me know if you will be joining us?

See you then,
Natalie and the Church 4 U team

Maundy Thursday (Thurs 9th April)

Evening Service at 7.30 pm

Good Friday (Fri 10th April)

BCP Morning Prayer and Litany - 9.00 am
Children's Service - 10.30 am
Liturgy of the Day - 12.00

Easter Day (Sun 12th)

Service of Light and Holy Communion (said) - 8.30 am
Parish Eucharist - 10.30 am

Family Race Night

Join  us for an evening of fun on Friday 13th February @ 7pm at St Matthew's School Hall.

See Sharon or Susan for tickets,  £5.00 per Adult / £2.50 per Child (includes Potato Pie Supper and Prize Draw)

Please look at the Church4U section for details of our next meeting.

PS. Not everyone has given me their e-mail address, if you see someone who is a member of C4U can you ask them if they have had an e-mail and if they haven't remind them to let me have their e-mail address.

The next meeting of the Church 4 U group will be on 20th September 2008.  We are looking a going to the "Delph Party in the Park"  festival. 

Please meet at St Matthew's for 6pm and we expect to return arround 10pm

Church4U Update - Change of plan for 3rd May 2008

Lent Course - Growing in Prayer

Two sermons from 7th October 2007:

Praying for others - St Matthew's

Change - a theological perspective - St Luke's

Follow this link to view the Flower Festival Gallery

Please follow the link to read Sunday 22nd September's Sermon - Being God's people in this parish

Please follow the link to read Sunday 16th September's Sermon - Is Christianity in Decline ?

Please follow the link to read Sunday 2nd September's Sermon - A life of righteousness

Being Christ’s Church in a Modern world – Christian lifestyles

Prayer

Date	Title	Bible Reference
07.10.07	Praying for others	2Timothy 1.1-3
07.10.07	As it was in the beginning is now & ever shall be?
14.10.07	Harvest
21.10.07	When prayer is difficult	Luke 18.1-8
28.10.07	How should we pray?	Luke 18.9-14

It is not too late to sign up for the leading intercessions workshop.  No previous experience of leading intercessions is needed,  just the desire to find out more.  If you come on the course you don’t have to sign up for leading intercessions in church (although of course I hope you will feel able to do so having seen how easy it is with all the resources available).  The intercessions at the Eucharist are the prayers of all God’s people, and I would really value others sharing in this part of our worship and ministry.

In 2007 St Matthew's church will celebrate its 150th Anniversary.

Various events are be taking place starting with a Flower Festival commencing 20^th September 2007.

Follow this link for a full programme of events

Parade Hymn Book Cover Design Competition Results

Congratulations to the winners of the competition to design new covers for our Parade Hymn books.  The standard of entries was very high and the selection was very difficult.  We are working towards completion of the new hymn books in readness for our 150th Celebration in November.

The winners are as follows:

Age 7 and over

1st Prize	Rachael Emmott
Runners Up	Laura Broome  Ellie Mackie  Nicole Hankes

Age under 7

1st Prize	Lucy Isbello Hoskinson
Runners Up	Brittany Rushworth  Joe Jackson  Charly

Denis Barrott was among the 81 men and 81 women who were presented to Her Majesty as part of a tradition that goes back 800 years.

See Oldham Advertiser article

Design a front cover for our Parade Hymn Booklets

As our Parade Hymn Booklets are now well worn and require updating we would like some new designs for the Front Cover.  With this in mind we are arranging a Competition for all our Children, ie. Day School, Sunday School and Uniformed organisations to take part in various age groups as follows:

• Under 7
• Age 7 - 11
• Age 12+

We would like the designs on A5 size paper handed in for judging by Sunday 29^th April 2007 and the chosen designs will be displayed in the Narthex on Sunday 13^th May 2007 (Parade Service). Prizes will be given for the best design in each age group.