Join us for our community carols event in Cheswick. This year we will be in The Square on Long Down Avenue.
Come along and sing some carols and join in with the festive fun!
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St Michael's Church, Stoke Gifford
Living to make a difference
Join us for our community carols event in Cheswick. This year we will be in The Square on Long Down Avenue.
Come along and sing some carols and join in with the festive fun!
This November Gift Day supports the ministry and mission of St Michael’s Church.
..see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
2 Corinthians 8:7
Our vision is living to make a difference by being a Christian heart at the centre of our communities.
This vision is realised through Learning & Growing Together, Sharing Jesus Together and Serving Together.
To make our vision happen, we hold 2 gift days a year. One in May to support our resources and buildings and one in November to support day-to-day ministry.
Our gifts make this vision possible. This year, we’ve:
Thank you for joining us on this adventure of generous giving that enables our vision to become a reality.
Wellbeing Coordinator
To work with existing agencies to resource our response post Covid, in education settings and community.
New Housing Areas
Strengthen community links in Cheswick, Harry Stoke and Scholars Chase, which all sit within our parish. Call people to move into New Housing Areas to begin new Life Groups.
Coffee Shop and Catering
Strengthen the ministry of the Old School Rooms Coffee Shop with additional resource. Engage external consultancy for our overall catering requirements across our ministries and that of the Centre.
Youth & Children’s Ministry
Invest in our teams to resource the expanding ministry and lead our amazing volunteers.
Young Adults
Develop our students & young adults ministry to meet the specific needs of this generation in the current climate.
Worship
We have already begun to build on the development of worship teams and to strengthen and enhance our musical worship.
Other costs will include:
Our ministry is resourced from the generous giving of our church.
Financially, we receive no contributions from the Church of England. In fact, we contribute around £150k per year back to the Church of England in Parish Share to support the wider ministry of the Church in the Bristol Diocese.
Have you recently joined our church? We invite you to give monthly to enable our vision to become a reality.
Some of us haven’t yet been able to support our ministry and mission. Could now be your time to begin giving financially?
Like any charitable organisation, we are impacted by inflation and other factors that mean our costs steadily increase each year. Could you increase your giving?
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart togive, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
You can also download this webpage in a pdf leaflet format here
On Friday 29 and Saturday 30 October, around 30 volunteers gave their time and talent to working on the building at the Pre-school and Nursery. Altogether around 180 hours were volunteered!
Throughout the pandemic we have produced pastoral/worship packs for around 80 -100 people who are either not in a life group or who don’t have online access. Each pack contains a letter from one of the leadership team. This time it’s the turn of Simon, and he has lots of news to share…
Greetings from St Michael’s Church! This message comes with my blessings and prayers as we head into the autumn season.
I have been reading this Bible verse; “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43 verse 19)
Despite the impact of the pandemic and the effects it has had, God is still doing a new thing. This verse suggests that it is God’s responsibility to do the new thing. We are simply called to perceive it and follow Him. Out of the wasteland, streams will flow. At our Newcomers Lunch recently, we welcomed 64 people! 48 of these were brand new to St Michael’s during lockdown. Jesus is alive and His Church is growing.
It has been so lovely to begin to reconnect as a Church community. The Over-65s Sunday afternoon tea on Sunday 3 October was a particular highlight. So delightful to connect together with old friends and meet new ones whilst enjoying a cream tea! Julie then led a wonderful service of Evensong in Church.
We have also restarted our midweek communion service in Church. The next service is Wednesday 20 October at 10am in the Church building. Please come and be my guest at this simple service. Vicky will be leading us.
Friday Film Club has also restarted. The next one is on Friday 22 October at 2pm in the church centre, a bargain at £2 with tea and biscuits are included.
Finally, we will be having a wonderful All Saints on Monday 1 November at 7.30pm in Church. This simple service enables those who have experienced the loss of someone they love, to give thanks and remember their loved ones before God. If you have been bereaved in the recent or distant past or maybe know someone who is still struggling with ‘loss’, why not invite them to come along? An invitation is included with this letter.
May the Lord make a ‘way’ in the wilderness for you.
God Bless