An update for the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

The following activities are taking place each week. All are welcome to join us:

Sundays

  • 8:00am – BCM Communion Service
  • 10:00am – 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

  • 9:00 – 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

  • 9:00 – 9:30am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
  • 1:30 – 4:00m – 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 (except in August) at the Community Hall. Contacts Shirley Saunders  01590 677628 or Pat Wright 01590 678416

Wednesdays

  • 9:00 – 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

  • 9:00 – 9:30am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link
  • 12:00 – 12:45pm – Advice Outreach, from NFDC and Citizens Advice
  • 12:45 – 1:45pm – Fareshare Larder – St Mark’s Community Hall Car Park

Fridays

  • 9:00 – 9:30am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link

Saturdays

  • 9:00 – 9:30am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with St Thomas and St Mark’s – Parish Prayer zoom link

Friendship Tea

The next Friendship Tea will be on October 1st from 2.30pm so be ready to share your news over tea/coffee and deliciously good cakes. Our thanks to Pat and Shirley and the team for organising the teas throughout the year.

Study Group returns in September!

The study group have had a good, well earned rest over the summer holidays and will be recommencing their studies on Monday 9th September 2024. We will be continuing our journey into the book of Revelation and will be delving into the book of Acts next. If you would like to join our happy bunch on a Monday at 10am, do please let Jane Nicholson know or email jane@penningtonchurch.uk.

Summer Fair

We held our Summer Fair on the last Saturday of August. Our thanks go to the many friends and visitors who called in to chat. They stopped to buy delicious homemade cakes, gifts, books, puzzles, plants, draw/tombola tickets and tried to guess the weight of the cake, the number of marbles and hook the duck! Thanks to all the volunteers who set up the fair, ran stalls and refreshments – and cleared up afterwards!! The morning was a great success (the jokes were good, too!). It was really lovely to see the community come together – and raised £644.20 towards the efforts of st Marks!

Parisian Afternoon Tea

Belmore Lodge (Colten Care) are organising an afternoon tea on Thursday 12th September from 2 – 4pm in aid of Parkinson’s UK research charity. There will be live music to accompany the refreshments, with a raffle at Boldre War Memorial Hall, Pilley, SO41 5QG. Tickets: £5 from Belmore Lodge or phone 01590 674700 or email: BelmoreLodgeCustomerAdvisor@ColtenCare.co.uk

Harvest lunch

We hope to host a simple salads and cold meat harvest lunch for midday on Sunday 6th October, at the Pennington Community Hall! Calling all volunteers who may be able to help and a confirmation of numbers who may want to attend. Forms for both to be available in church.

Licencing as LLM for Jane Nicholson

Jane would like to thank everyone in our Church family for their encouragement and support throughout her training. As many of you may know, once you start on a journey of faith, it is by no means impossible for that journey to continue along other pathways! Jane continues:

My licensing service is at 11am at Winchester Cathedral on 12th October 2024. This service will be a milestone in my journey but not a resting place as I am continuing my studies for a further year whilst I discern a calling for possible ordination. If you find me absent on a Sunday at the moment, it is probably because I am exploring other services at other locations. This coming Sunday, I will be at a study weekend in Winchester University as we mark the beginning of another year of assignments, essays and joyful exploration.

Culture in Common Sunday Drama

Keep this date in your diary: Sunday 3rd November 7pm when our next play will be ‘Dracula: the Vampyr’ a solo performance by David Mynne who performed a wonderful ‘A Christmas Carol‘ for us last year.

Pennington Community Hub

The Community Hub continues it’s successful work on Thursday in the Community Hall from 12pm to 2pm.

Ecochurch Recycling

  • Milk Bottle tops: we are now collecting these as Stewarts Garden Centre are turning these into garden furniture!
  • Ground coffee/coffee bean packets: a notice at the back of church shows which bags are now being collected. Please support our effort to reduce waste.

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

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