Starting at St Peter’s Church, Ravenshead, Bishop Paul visited National CofE Academy school, St Mary Magdalene Church and the John Godber Centre, to hear of God at work in our lives and communities during the past year.

Dear Friend,

I’m looking forward to meeting more of the church family –I’m enjoying being in Hucknall but belonging to a community is about worshipping together too – but safely of course.

I’m writing to update you on what we hope will happen in the next few weeks.

Because things change quickly Martin, Jane and I have put together a short term plan beginning to open for worship on a Sunday morning at both our churches. This is an experiment as there is still so much uncertainty.

For each service you need to book in via the Parish Office 07538 735103 as we have a limited number of places to make sure we can maintain social distancing.

For everyone’s safety: You will need a face mask and will be asked to sit in certain seats. There will be music but sadly no singing yet. The service will be conducted with all Covid precautions.

Each Thursday at St Mary Magdalene
10.15am Service of Holy Communion

Sunday 23rd August
10am Worship on Zoom
11am Service of Holy Communion St Mary Magdalene
4-5pm St Mary Magdalene Open for Private prayer

Sunday 30th August
9.30am Service of Holy Communion St John the Evangelist
11am Service of Holy Communion St Mary Magdalene – also on Facebook live

Sunday 6th September
9.30am Service of Holy Communion St John the Evangelist
11am Service of Holy Communion St Mary Magdalene – also on Facebook live
4pm Picnic Service in the church yard – byo picnic!

For some people coming to a service will be a difficult thing after months of following guidelines – but we are following the guidelines in the worship.

Yours,

Helen Chantry

Vicar of St Mary Magdalene with St John the Evangelist
on behalf of Martin Kowalski and Jane Haywood Church Wardens

On Friday 1st May the Hucknall food bank at Under One Roof in Hucknall, with the help of Nottingham Fire Service, plan to collect food donations from the residents of Hucknall.

Anyone who has any food to be collected will need to email hucknalldonates@gmail.com and register that they have non perishable food to be collected. We believe they’re also collecting toiletries.

Names and addresses will be collated and roads will be assigned to the fire service or the volunteer drivers who will pick up the food from people’s homes.

We’ve been asked to circulate this to our congregations and also to pass the information on to friends and families who live in Hucknall so they can reach as many people as possible.