Newsletter - Creation in Christ
06/09/26 (Year A)
Your weekly e-newsletter from the Benwell & Scotswood Team.
This week
This Sunday
10am - Holy Communion at St Margaret’s
10am - Holy Communion at St John’s
11.15am - Parish Eucharist with adult baptisms at St James’
Tuesday
4.30pm - bible study with Farsi translation
Thursday
12pm - Holy Communion at Venerable Bede
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 4th October
Fr Chris’ last service, Team service, 11.15am at St James
News
Something Wonderful project back to normal this week
After the summer break, all our sessions at St James will be back on as usual. Craft club, Art club, Long Spoons Cafe, Farsi Bible study, Pathways welfare drop-in, MODS and more will be happening.
Estates and Urban churches study day
Are you interested in learning more about mission and ministry on estates and urban contexts? Join us for the Diocese of Newcastle’s study day at St Michael’s in Byker!
Fr Chris will be going, and have a chat with him if you would like to go along.
Date: Tuesday 22nd September
Time: 9.30-3.15pm
Venue: St Michael's Church, Byker
Sign up: https://tickets.myiknowchurch.co.uk/gb/NzY5MC0xNTI/t
We will be joined by Bishop Helen-Ann and our speaker is the Revd Canon Lucy Sablan. Lucy is a Team Rector in inner city Sheffield, looking after 4 churches in Manor and Arbourthorne (which basically means working with an amazing team of people and living in on one of the most fun communities in the country). She is also Canon of Urban Evangelisation at Sheffield Cathedral, helping to advocate for and resource ministry in estates and low income communities in the diocese. She loves Dog walks, and can usually be found on her rest day in the peak district either on a muddy walk, in a pub or (Preferably) both.
Please sign up ASAP to help with numbers for catering purposes.
Pride in Place funding for a new Kitchen!
The Something Wonderful project has been awarded an incredible £28,097.99 to replace our tired kitchen at St James! This will bring a new lease of life to the Long Spoons Cafe and the hospitality we provide to so many throughout the week.
With huge thanks to the Pride in Place Impact Fund, Newcastle City Council, Mohammad Peivandi for his designs, and Jan Hodgson and David and Gwyn McKenzie from TCTT for helping with our application.
Fr Chris’ last service
Fr Chris’ last service in Benwell will be on Sunday 4th October, 11.15am at St James’. When we’ll have the opportunity to give thanks for his faithful ministry among us and wish him every blessing as he begins this new chapter. After a short break, he will begin his new role in November.
Please keep Fr Chris, our parish, and the people of Christ Church Shieldfield and St Ann’s Battlefield in your prayers during this time of transition
Giving
You are welcome in our churches whether or not you can give financially.
However, we are dependent on donations from our members. If you are able to give financially, please would you set up a regular donation via the Parish Giving Scheme.
You can still give via cash or card, but regular giving via PGS makes accounting and budgeting much easier for our volunteers– meaning we can spend more time caring for our community!
You can choose to give directly to the parish or an individual church:
