CHURCH DIARY PAGE ST PAUL’S & ST LUKE’S EVENTS Please see the back for contact details for St Paul’s at the Crossing and St Luke’s, Chuckery Sun 18/1 9.30 am 11.00 am Holy Communion St Lukes Sister Dora Service St Pauls Morning Prayer Deaf Church Day Chapel Monday 10.00 am Morning Prayer Tuesday 10.00 am Morning Prayer Wed 11.00 am Holy Communion Day Chapel (Revd Phil Ball Presiding) Crossing Meeting Quiet Time 11.45 am 1.10 pm Thurs 10.00 am 1.30 pm Morning Prayer Crossing Friendship Group Fri 10.00 am Morning Prayer Sat 10.30 am Quiet Time followed by Soul Space Sun 25/1 9.30 am 11.00 am 4.00 pm Holy Communion St Lukes Holy Communion St Pauls Messy Church – God’s World St Paul’s PCC Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm St Luke’s PCC Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm St Matthew’s Induction and Licensing Service Revd Jim Trood will be inducted and licensed as Rector of St Matthew's Church on 29th Jan at 7.00 pm. Joint St Paul’s & St Luke’s Film Night Sat 7th February at St Lukes 6.30 pm ‘Evan Almighty’ Lent Lunch Services ‘Challenges of Following Jesus’ Ash Wednesday 18th February: Penance and Pride Rev John Davies, Superintendent Minister Central Hall 25th February: Fasting and Feasting Rev Andrew Martinez, Assistant Priest St Mary’s on the Mount Catholic Church 4th March: Healing and Brokenness Rev Nigel Taylor, Curate St Paul’s at the Crossing 11th March: Forgiveness and Anger Rev Justin Karakadu, Priest in Charge St Mary’s on the Mount Catholic Church 18th March: Foolishness and Wisdom Rev Jim Trood, Rector St Matthew’s Church 25th March: Peace and Justice Rev Wilbert Sayimani, Minister Hatherton URC 1st April: Life and Death Rev Mark Kinder, Vicar St Paul’s at the Crossing COLLECT PRAYER & BIBLE READINGS FOR THE MORNING PRAYER SERVICE You may wish to use these as your daily readings 18th January 2015 St Paul’s & St Luke’s Church Epistle Grace, Encounter and Renewal Collect Eternal Lord, our beginning and our end: bring us with the whole creation to your glory, hidden through the ages and made known in Jesus Christ our Lord. Sister Dora Readings Sun Ps 145.1-12 Micah 6.6-8 Matt 9.18-26 Mon Ps 146 Amos 6 Mark 2.18-22 Tue Ps 132 Amos 7 Mark 2.23-end Wed Ps 81 Amos 8 Mark 3.1-6 Thur Ps 76 Amos 9 Mark 3.7-12 Fri Ps 27 Hos 1:1-2:1 Mark 3.13-19 Sat Ps 122 Hos 2.2-17 Mark 3.20-21 Email: Revd Mark Kinder [email protected] Revd Nigel Taylor [email protected] Anthony Harris [email protected] Ruth Brooker [email protected] Websites:www.thecrossingatstpauls.co.uk www.achurchnearyou.com/chuckery_st_luke Church Office Tel: 01922 620669 The Gospels are full of accounts of Jesus freeing people from the limitations of disease and illness: physical, mental and social, enabling them to return to their communities. This is also what the National Health Service aims to do on a daily basis: to restore people to their communities and help them to lead lives that both give to that community as well as receive from it. Part of this is regaining independence of which much is spoken. The truth, however, is that we are all dependent people relying on each other to add to and receive from our communities. These communities help us to value ourselves as we feel needed by them and as we need them to provide for us. Before 1948 the NHS did not exist. Instead we relied on people such as Dorothy Pattison (Sister Dora) who came to Walsall to serve the local communities through the delivery of health care. The impact she had was to enable people to remain in, or return to, community. She had a deep understanding of what it was to be prevented from being in community, both from her father’s mental health problems that resulted in him spending time in the ‘Asylum’ and through her own illnesses that kept her from joining the community she wanted to be in. Sister Dora was particularly loved by those who worked on the railways, a job that was prone to serious accidents, and they bought her a pony and trap in order that she could see more people in the community and help them remain there. Sister Dora’s faith was key to her ‘healing ministry’ and sustained her to her death on Christmas Eve 1878. This year we commemorate 150 years since she came to Walsall and we should remember her in terms of how she lived out what she saw in the scriptures: a healing ministry that was based on restoration of community. Nigel Taylor