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Who are we?
Who we are
We strive to be an inclusive and outward looking Christian community embodying the life of Christ and bound together by the love of God and love for each other, welcoming everyone who wants to learn about and be involved in the Christian journey of faith.
Our mission
We are a rural Church proud of our history and traditions, and yet very much engaged with contemporary life. We pride ourselves on the quality of our welcome, worship and music. We endeavour to be an inclusive Chrisitan community serving 4 villages and a new housing development in north Cheshire.
Our history
We are the birthplace of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) the author of Alice in Wonderland. The Lewis Carroll Visitor Centre tells the story of his early life and influences The Daniell Chapel contains the Lewis Carroll Memorial Window.
Sunday Group
During the service we also run a Sunday Group at 10.30am at which children of any age are welcome. The Group’s work is fun, interactive and appropriate for their ages and ties in with that morning’s Church service.
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Might get more today!
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Morning David and all from Gill
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Good Morning from James. Join me for Morning Prayer
Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer
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Morning all
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Mine is jittery
There’s a lot of distortion on music sound
Thank you Simon, got most of your message.
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Have got connection on tablet, but very intermittent.
Is it just me or has the connection frozen?
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Morning everyone
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Simon can you drop the levels on your mic and music. it's overdriving a bit.
Good morning everybody. David and Sally
Andrew - all ok here but it does drop off briefly
Morning Simon and all from Gill and Glynis
Thank you Simon for very thoughtful and important message. Thank you everybody for being here today. I don't think that the force of the message was lost. Please don't forget to order your Ash Wednesday pack. Go to our website daresburycofe.org.uk/ash-wednesday-pack/ .
I hope you have had a good week and that you and your family are all well.
The snow this morning was quite a surprise, as it was on Wednesday evening. Sally and I went for a walk with the dog at lunchtime. Have a look at the attached picture of the village looking down from the woods by Daresbury Hall. Quite the ‘chocolate box!’
With the days slowly beginning to lengthen, our thoughts and plans are starting to turn towards Lent, Holy Week and Easter. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to celebrate Easter in Church, but let’s just wait and see and not count our Easter chicks before they’re hatched!
Easter this year falls on 4 April, which means that Lent starts with Ash Wednesday on 17 February – only 3 weeks away. Building upon our experience of the virtual Christingle, we are going to have a virtual Ash Wednesday service at 7.30pm. We are creating an Ash Wednesday pack that will be posted to your house in time for the service. It will consist of the Live Lent book for this year, a palm cross and a small bag of blessed Ash. If you would like a pack please fill in the form on our website here: -
daresburycofe.org.uk/ash-wednesday-pack/ . If you know of anybody who is not online, please ask them to telephone me and we’ll send on out to them. Obviously, they won’t be able to join us ‘live,’ but we’ll arrange for it to be available on the telephone by midday the following day.
Speaking of the telephone service, we are in the process of changing our provider. This means that the telephone number is changing to 01925 980054. This is now live. The old number will continue to be available until 19<sup>th</sup> February. The new provider will enable us to develop the service to suit our needs better, as well as giving improved quality. One of the immediate improvements is that once connected you will get a recorded greeting from me rather than having to listen to silence for a minute or so and thinking something has gone wrong!
During Lent, the Bible Study group will be focusing on a special study course on climate change produced by USPG, the international Anglican mission organisation. We have supported USPG for many years. Gill worked for them for a number of years, and Revd Peter Povey who was Associate Priest here in the early 2000s was a medical missionary with them in east Africa shortly after he qualified as a Doctor. More details next week.
Tomorrow’s service will be led by Simon. You can find the service sheet here:-
media.acny.uk/media/news/post/2021/01/Clean_Converson_of_St.Paul_Epiphany_3.pdf
With God’s blessing,
David
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