Updates & Prayers at St Margaret's Church through COVID19 outbreak

Above are a couple of pictures of the area in the bottom of the Churchyard known as "The Duckery" covered in spring flowers

St Margaret's Church is open for services as follows:

Thursdays            10.00 am to 11.00 am

For those missing Children @ Church  Georgina is now putting together a fortnightly newsletter which can be found on the Ch@Ch page of the website.

If you would like to make a donation to St Margaret’s Church, then click on the link to the Donate Now page, after you have clicked the button, you can enter your details and can choose St Margaret’s from the drop-down list of churches. 

In addition, there is a Gift Aid option as well as an option for donors to cover the transaction cost if they want to.  As is the case with Contactless and Giving Direct, funds go into the Diocesan bank account as the registered charity and are then passed on to St Margaret’s as soon as possible along with a report showing when the donations were made. 

Many Thanks

There is now a new way to donate to St Margaret's Church using "Donate Now" set up by the Diocese of Lichfield to help their churches.  Their Finance Team, with help from a local software company, Date Developments, have put a Donate Now button on the Diocese website.

Donations to St Margaret's Church

For details of other Digital Resources & Services, click here

From the RSCM — for everyone, wherever you are:

The RSCM website now features, free for all, Hymn of the Day, and Sunday Self-Service — a simple act of worship with music, readings and prayers which will change weekly. Specific resources for Holy Week and Easter will be available in due course. We will shortly be adding a daily vocal warmups video – a short session to keep your body moving, and voice in good shape if you’re a singer. If you don’t consider yourself a singer, do it anyway!

To try to keep people in touch, we are setting up an email group run from the Parish Office - please contact the Parish Office. if you want to be included.

We are also starting a WhatsApp group for those who want to join and have a Smartphone - please let Martin know. 

The Parish Office will continue on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday between 10.30 am and 3.00 pm. 

We intend to keep the Parish Magazine going plus extra newsletters.  There will be a more detailed version of the magazine on the Parish Magazine page on line.

As the church still has its running costs to meet, can I encourage people to bring their Giving Envelopes or to drop in donations.  If you would like details of the Church Bank account so that you can do a bank transfer, please contact the Parish Office.

We are keen to keep in touch with people even if visiting is restricted, so please let us know if you have needs or concerns that we might help with.

Please be assured of my prayers during this very difficult time.

Martin Rutter, Vicar

"Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5.7