Intro
Fundraising
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Please note that due to the Coronavirus outbreak and directives received from Government and Church Authorities there will be no services at our Church until further notice.
Similarly all clubs and activities at the Church such as Lent Groups, Brownies, Baby and Toddler Group and Slimming World are suspended with immediate effect for the foreseeable future.
We hope to see you soon and in the meantime watch out for any online or telephone ways to keep in contact with the church via our website.
Graveyards
Following on from guidance from The Church of England, they advise that we do not mow the grass at Church during Lockdown.
Taken form the C of E Website
Are we allowed to cut the grass and other gardening? If we don’t the church grounds will quickly look very overgrown.
No. Tending to the churchyard cannot be considered an ‘essential journey’ and as such we do not recommend it during the lockdown, unless it is for security or safety reasons such as pruning a tree which is considered unsafe, or removing climbing plants from walls if they are causing damage to the building or could be used to facilitate breaking in. Anyone undertaking works in the churchyard for these specific purposes should work alone (unless they are with someone from the same household). If they are using the church’s equipment, then it should be sanitised before and after use in line with Public Health England advice. This could be an opportunity to change your mowing regime by allowing suitable areas to grow long over the next few weeks, allowing natural wildflowers to grow and encouraging biodiversity.
Prayer group
Over the past few months, a group of us have been meeting as a prayer group on the second Tuesday of each month.. As this will not be happening, perhaps at 10.00am on the second Tueday of each month as many of us as can, pray for each other and the challenges that are now before us.
Wardle is a Local Ecumenical Partnership between Wardle Methodist Church and the Parish of Wardle and Smallbridge. Wardle Village Church has been a local Ecumenical Partnership since 1993, and its fully integrated congregation shares both Methodist and Anglican worship. We play a full part in both the Rochdale and Littleborough Methodist Circuit and District and the Rochdale Deanery and Diocese of Manchester.
Our purpose is to offer meaningful worship; (both traditional and modern) to encourage members to grow in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to be the body of Christ, witnessing to his love and grace in the area we serve.
Ministers
Rev Rachel Battershell
Vicar
Tel: 01706 378466
Rev Anne Gilbert
Anglican Curate
Tel: 346774
Diocese of Manchester Website
www.manchester.anglican.org.uk
Rev. Ruth Jackson
Superintendent Methodist Minister
01706 551686
Methodist Church Website