Regular activities
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)
- ~10:45am – Zoom Coffee on Pennington Church general zoom link
Mondays
- 9-9:20am Morning Prayer on Zoom with Sarah and Jane – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 10:30am-12 – Zoom Study group on Pennington Church general zoom link
Tuesdays
- 9-9:20am Morning Prayer on Zoom with Sarah and Jane – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 11am-12 – TakeTime Meditation Group on Zoom – Parish Prayer zoom link
Wednesdays
- 9-9:20am Morning Prayer on Zoom with Sarah and Jane – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 10:15-11am – Zoom Coffee on Pennington Church general zoom link
Thursdays
- 9-9:20am Morning Prayer on Zoom with Sarah and Jane – Parish Prayer zoom link
- 1-2:30pm – Fareshare Larder – St Mark’s Community Hall Car Park
Fridays
- 9-9:20am – Morning Prayer on Zoom with Sarah and Jane – Parish Prayer zoom link
Saturdays
- 9-10 Parish prayers on zoom, followed by coffee – Parish Prayer zoom link
Cathedral Lay Ministries service
9th October – 11am
Several of our congregation will be receiving their Bishop’s license for ministry in our parish. Numbers at the cathedral are significantly restricted, due to covid guidance, however, you are warmly invited to join us online for this service:
https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/service-live-stream
Please pray for George Kidner, receiving Bishop’s permission to preach, Eve Jolly and Rebecca Rickaby, receiving their Bishop’s Commission for Mission. We are so glad of their work and ministry in our parish here.
Get involved; would you like to contribute with readings or intercessions?
Key parts of a church services are in sharing the wisdom within our Bibles and through prayer, giving thanks and sharing our fears and concerns with our loving God.
If you would like to contribute to the work we do in the form of the readings or leading in prayer, do please get in touch – we’d love to include you in our services. You don’t have to be able to be in the building for reading either; we can include you pre-recorded too!
Get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.
Monday study group
Are you interested in exploring your faith journey further outside of the Church services? Perhaps you would like to know more about some of the things we include in the service as standard?
If so may we invite you to join our study group on Mondays, from 10.30am to 12 noon on Zoom (details below).
This is a continuing Pilgrim Course looking at The Creeds in more detail. All are welcome and our sessions will be lead by Jane who is passionate about exploring faith and leading those discussions and wonderings that are not always possible in a service setting.
If you would like to join us, please email ‘takepart@penningtonchurch.uk‘ and we will be happy to welcome you.
Help shape the future of St Marks!
We are holding an event on 28th September from 3pm to 4.30pm at the Community Hall, an an opportunity for us to reconnect with each other and explore what activities are possible for the future and who would like to be involved in making them happen.
If this is of interest to you, do please join us on Tuesday 28th September 2021 for tea and refreshments and good conversation around future community activities.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Also, if you have a few minutes we’d appreciate your time to respond to a few questions that can help guide how we move forward:
Children’s Society collection boxes
Dorothy Davies is looking after the collection boxes for the Children’s Society, for which many of us keep at home to add loose change to through the year. Coming up soon we will be celebrating the work of this important charity, collecting the donations we’ve made together to pass along.
Please can you endeavour to bring your collection box back into church for Dorothy, before the end of September.
4-week Creation Care Course
…is a unique collaboration between The Diocese of Chester, HeartEdge, Melanesian Mission UK and Southampton University.
In this 4-week Creation Care Course, we will provide you with vital information about climate change, its impacts on people, and reflect on our role as Christians in taking practical climate action.
- Week 1: Caring for Creation (7 October 2021, 19.30-21.00), we will take a theological perspective on creation care and tackling climate change, using bible studies and a wide range of theological resources.
- Week 2: Understanding Climate Change (14 October 2021, 19.30-21:00), we will look at climate change, its drivers and impacts from a scientific perspective.
- Week 3: Living Climate Change – Stories from Melanesia (21 October 2021, 19.30-21.00), we will learn about the effects of climate change on people and draw upon examples of climate impacts and human responses in Melanesia.
- Week 4: Taking Action – Caring for the Environment, Caring for People (18 November 2021, 19.30-21.00), we will hear about various options for climate change mitigation and adaptation that we can take as individuals, as parishes and as a Christian community.
Wanted: Good home for a wooden upright piano
Is there anyone who would like to own a lovely old piano? We need some space in the Community Hall and the piano now needs another home for budding pianists or practised fingers that would like some mindful musical exercise!
Please email enquiries@penningtonchurch.uk if you would like to view the piano. A donation for the instrument would be greatly appreciated.
Green Week: 1st to 10th October
Lots of local events to encourage everyone to ‘Go Green’ including craft workshops, Eco Fair, Guided walks, Repair Café, Apple pressing, information evenings on sustainable living ideas, and our Hedge length River and Countryside banner.
Links for more details:
- Lymington & Pennington GREEN WEEK on Facebook
- New Forest Transition website, Green Week page
(Still) Calling from the Edge
(Still) Calling from the Edge is the 10th annual conference on Disability & Church. It’s a partnership between St Martin in the Fields and Inclusive Church, hosted online by HeartEdge.
In this year’s conference we explore call as challenge, lament and vocation. Through art, music, story and theology, in plenary talks, small groups, workshops and liturgy. It’s a cry for justice that marks a milestone: 10 years of calling from the edge.
”Disabled people have a distinct prophetic ministry to the church. In order for the church to fulfil its prophetic ministry to society, it needs disabled people.”
John Hull (Opening the Roof, 2012)
Details & Registration: (Still) Calling from the Edge (EventBrite)
COVID Morning 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 Jane Nicholson from St Mark’s and Sarah Salisbury from St Thomas, this now runs Monday through Friday. 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
Rachel’s art for sale!
If you’d like to purchase art that our priest Rachel has created and showed in our our worship recently, please check out our new Red Bubble shop. Profits from sales of these items all go to support the ministry of Pennington Church.
YouTube and Facebook
All our services can be found on our YouTube channel here. We also stream our services 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: 971 631 0618 Passcode: 1839
- Parish Prayer Zoom Link:
- From a landline phone: 0203 481 5240 Meeting ID: 895 2990 2640 Passcode: 2020
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StMarksChurchPennington