The following activities are taking place each week. All are welcome to join us:
Sundays
- 8am – BCM Communion Service
- 10am – Contemporary Service (Communion service on the first and third Sunday of the month, informal morning praise on the second and fourth Sunday of the month)
Mondays
- 9-9:30am Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
- From 10am – Zoom Study group on Pennington Church general zoom link
Tuesdays
- 9-9:30am Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 1.30-4pm – Strictly Come Crafting. 2nd & 4th Tuesday at the Community Hall. Contacts Dorothy Davies 01590 676163 or Shirley Saunders 01590 677628
- 2.30-3.45pm – Friendship Teas 1st Tuesday in month at the Community Hall. Contacts Shirley Saunders 01590 677628 or Pat Wright 01590 678416
Wednesdays
- 9-9:30am Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 10:15-10:30am – Morning Prayer at St Mark’s Church (4th Wednesday only)
- 10:30-11:30am – Coffee at St Mark’s Church (4th Wednesday only)
Thursdays
- 9-9:30am Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 12-1pm – Advice Outreach, from NFDC and Citizens Advice
- 1-2pm – Fareshare Larder – St Mark’s Community Hall Car Park
Fridays
- 9-9:30am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
Saturdays
- 9-9:30am Parish prayers at St Thomas Church
Harvest Festival
Our service to celebrate harvest is coming up on the 8th October; any donations of food stuffs for the New Forest Basics Bank would be gladly taken during our 8 or 10am services.
Wednesday Coffee mornings
From October our coffee mornings will only take place on the fourth Wednesday of the month when the draw takes place. This is due to the lack of volunteers to open the church and provide the refreshments. If you would like to volunteer to help and keep a more regular schedule, do please contact Eve Jolly.
Lymington and Pennington’s Neighbourhood Plan
Saturday 7th – 12:30 – 2:30pm, St Marks Community Hall
Lymington and Pennington Town Council is creating a Neighbourhood Plan (NP) for Lymington & Pennington which is intended to provide a policy framework to resolve and manage the long-term success of the Town.
New Forest District Council adopted the current Local Plan 2016 –2036 for the District in 2020. This sets out planning policies and where new development should be located. Lymington and Pennington will need to accommodate new housing and our Neighbourhood Plan enables us as a local community to shape where and how this development should happen.
Messy Church at St Thomas Church
Our friends at St Thomas have an upcoming messy church at Lymington Infants school; would your children like to attend?
Baby Loss Awareness Week
For #BabyLossAwarenessWeek this year, Winchester Cathedral have joined with Hampshire Hospitals to hold a Service of Remembrance on 10th October, 7.00pm.
Anyone affected by baby loss is welcome.
This service will be addressing very sensitive themes, so please consider this carefully if attending with family.
If you would like your baby’s name read out during the service please email Sophie House, bereavement midwife, Sophie.House@hhft.nhs.uk
Funding new play equipment for Pennington Junior School
Did you attend Pennington juniors or know a child who attends Pennington Junior School? Perhaps you are or know of a local business looking to sponsor a good local cause?
Please can you help out friends at Pennington Junior School raise money for some new play equipment, unfortunately what they have now is unsafe and has been condemned, so for the time being they have nothing to play on 
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/PenningtonJuniors
Hampshire Home Library Service
did you know that Hampshire Libraries have a home library service? If you can’t get to the library due to ill-health, disability or caring responsibilities, the library can come to you. They arrange to deliver your library items to your home on a regular basis, for free. Find out more at Lymington Library, or by visiting https://tinyurl.com32ecujkx
Monday Study Group on Zoom
The study group continues on Monday at 10am on Zoom. The group will be looking at ‘Four Gospels, One Jesus’ – studying the 4 Gospels in comparison with one another. This is the link to the book to be used: https://www.eden.co.uk/christian-books/bible-study/book-rose-guide-to-the-gospels/#description
Ecochurch Recycling
Milk Bottle tops: we are no longer collecting these tops. Please put them on your empty bottles and put out in your kerbside recycling bags.
Medicine blister packs: we are also no longer able to collect these packs at the moment. If you know of anywhere these can be recycled please let Eve know.
Community Hub at Community Hall
Citizens Advice Outreach available for advice. Step Up Safe Space for clothes & toy swap.
Other services will be added based on your feedback of what would help your community.
Parish and Giving Update
St Mark’s PCC would welcome your help as we journey forward, with any volunteers who may be able to help in the aspects of our church life. Such as joining teams for parish visiting, events and refreshments or helping with our study groups; we are also wanting to fill a health and safety role – and would welcome any interested individuals to help in this position.
Financially, we are facing challenges as a church as many of our congregation and community likewise see. We are in the unfortunate position of seeing a large increase in our utility costs. With a rise of over 400%, we will be potentially seeing an increase exceeding £8,000 per year over church and hall. Although we appreciate the financial position of our congregation varies, if you are able to support us further now this would be most welcome. Many of our congregation donate through the Parish Giving Scheme; if you do not currently do so, we ask if you would consider starting – this is a great way for us to manage our finances. Alternatively, our weekly envelope scheme is available as an option too; details for both schemes are available from our treasurer and church warden, Teresa.
You may also want to give through alternative methods too, which won’t cost you to do so. For example, supporting us through services such as Amazon Smile or Easy Fundraising is a great way to use services you may already be using: with a percentage of the price you pay coming back to St Mark’s.
Our PCC would love to hear from you if you have any thoughts for how we may save money, or indeed increase finaces into the church. Do speak to any of your PCC members, or email ‘enquiries@penningtonchurch.uk’ with your thoughts – we’d love to hear from you.
Our thanks to all for your support; our church is not a building, it’s the people within it who meet in a common love of Christ – and it’s together that we can move forward.
Daily Prayer
With St Thomas in Lymington, we continue to ‘pray for our nation, for its leaders, its health and essential services and all those who suffer’ this week at 9am on Zoom. Led by members of St Mark’s and St Thomas congregations, this now runs Monday through Friday.
Daily prayer is also taking place in St Thomas church from 9am on Saturdays
Coming together, we offer daily prayer for the situation in Ukraine.
Please do join them either by computer or phone:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
- Meeting ID: 895 2990 2640 Passcode: 2020
- Dial in from a landline phone: 0131 460 1196
St Mark’s Flower Decoration
If you would like to give flowers to commemorate an anniversary or other special day, or remember a relative or friend, please enter your name on the poster at the back of church against the date you would like your flowers to decorate the church and/or contact:- Lin Haley on 01590 677904
YouTube and Facebook
All our services can be found on our YouTube channel here. We also post details about or services and events on our Facebook page too, here.
Online Connection Information
Zoom Details
- Pennington Church General Zoom link:
- From a landline phone: 0203 481 5240 Meeting ID: 944 5816 8956 Passcode: 1839
- Parish Prayer Zoom Link:
- From a landline phone: 0203 481 5240 Meeting ID: 895 2990 2640 Passcode: 2020
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PenningtonChurch
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StMarksChurchPennington