St Hildeburgh's Parish Church Hoylake: News Blog: September 2016

Friday, September 30, 2016

Congratulations to Jill - Our Newly Licensed Parish Pastoral Worker

Many congratulations go to Jill Rawcliffe who has just been licensed as a Pastoral Worker for the Parish of Hoylake.

Jill has been worshiping at St Hildeburgh's Parish Church in Hoylake for a number of years. For the past couple of years, Jill has been training with the Diocese of Chester to become a Pastoral Worker.

Jill has already made her pastoral mark in Hoylake through working closely with local residential and care homes. She has taken a lead in organizing St. Hildeburgh's monthly 'Soup & Sandwich Lunches' for senior citizens and our regular special services in church for care home residents, their families and friends.

Jill has another important role at St. Hildeburgh's through managing and staffing our Church Office several days each week and carrying out many important administrative tasks.

Pictured below are Jill with Bishop Keith of Birkenhead,

local clergy and other pastoral workers

at the licensing service that was held at

Chester Cathedral in September 2016:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Harvest Festival at St Hildeburgh's Church Sunday 25 September 2016

Join us

for a

service of

HARVEST

FAMILY

PRAISE

St Hildeburgh's Parish Church

Stanley Road

Hoylake

10.00am

Sunday

25 September 2016

It's family friendly and all age worship!

There will be

worship songs,

short readings from the Bible,

prayers

and lots of FUN!

ALL are very welcome:

Young and Old
Children and Grown Ups
People in groups
or those just on your own!
New and old worshipers alike

At this service,

we traditionally accept goods for use in

the local community

from those attending the service

(ranging from flowers and fresh fruit to tins of baked beans and packets of spaghetti etc!!)

PLEASE DO NOT WORRY IF YOU HAVE

NOT GOT ANYTHING TO BRING!

- that's perfectly OK

it's just GREAT that you can

join us for worship!

The giving of goods by those at the service

is our way of marking the plenty of Harvest

All the goods given at the

service are put to good use!

Small items - such as sweets, packets of biscuits and flowers are taken to elderly folk in the local area

- many of whom live in residential and care homes

or are living on their own.

Larger items - such as tinned food, packets and items that need to be cooked are taken to the ...

Wirral Churches Ark Project

(based in Birkenhead)

This outstanding charity (supported throughout the year by our church family at St Hildeburgh's) helps accommodate homeless Wirral folk and provide them with a wide range of support services

- None of your Harvest gifts

will ever go to waste!

To find out more about Wirral Ark,

follow the link below:

http://wirralark.org.uk

Friday, September 16, 2016

Healing Eucharist Sunday 18 September 2016

Join us at

St Hildeburgh's Parish Church

Stanley Road

Hoylake

Wirral

for a

HEALING EUCHARIST

10.00am

Sunday

18 September 2016

ALL ARE VERY WELCOME

This is a special service of Holy Communion

with optional laying on of hands

Monday, September 12, 2016

Lifeboat Service 2016

It was great to welcome to St Hildeburgh's Parish Church in Hoylake the men and women of Hoylake and West Kirby's RNLI lifeboats on Sunday, 11 September 2016, for our annual Lifeboat Service.

It was fantastic to have a really full church yet again as we honoured the work of the local lifeboat crews and support staff. We were delighted to have the Mayor and Mayoress of Wirral at the service.

The service was led by Rev Paul Rossiter, Vicar of Hoylake and Lifeboat Chaplain, while the preacher was Rev Lyndon Bannon.

The service was followed by a barbecue for the lifeboat men and women (accompanied by members of our church family) in the grounds of Hoylake Vicarage.

Many thanks to the Rev's Gillian and Paul for your hospitality at the Vicarage, and especially to Rev Paul for 'flipping the burgers' on the barbecue!