Family Social – 5th March (click on picture to fit your screen!)

Annual Church Meetings 2010

The Annual Church Meetings (i.e. the meeting of parishioners to elect churchwardens, the Annual Parochial Church Meeting proper, and the meeting of the PCC to elect officers) will be held on Sunday 21^st March 2010, immediately after the (shortened) Parish Eucharist at 9.30 am.  There will be cheese and wine (for the adults) and a craft workshop for the children.

Notices and documents for the meetings can be downloaded (or just viewed) from HERE.

Many thanks,

Fr Robin

Fairtrade Fortnight 22 February – 7 March

Visit the Fairtrade Foundation HERE.

Haiti Disaster Collection Update

We have now sent a further £194 to the Haiti disaster relief fund.
This brings the total donated by church members at St James to £314!

Well done! And thank you.

Parish Magazine for February

A PDF version of the Parish Magazine for February 2010 can be viewed at, or downloaded from HERE.

Mario Borrescio RIP

 We say goodbye today to a much loved member of our church: Mario Borrescio.  He was an ever present member of the church; a reader and a Eucharistic assistant; a lover of good (preferrably Italian) food and a teller of bad jokes; a friend to all.  His funeral will be in church today at 1.15 pm.

Haiti Disaster Collection

Many thanks to all who donated to the Haiti disaster relief fund in church on Sunday.

We raised £111.06, which I have today sent to the Disasters Emergency Committee (rounded up to £120).

If you didn’t get a chance to give anything, but would like to do so, there is a link to the Disasters Emergency Committee here.

Closures due to snow

Monday 6th January – 4.40 pm

Rochdale’s website has now been updated further.
Milnrow Parish is down as ‘decision not yet made’, but we ARE planning to be open!

Monday 6th January – 3.30 pm

Rochdale have updated their School Closures webpage (access it HERE) – only FIVE primary schools have so far decided to close tomorrow (Thursday)!  The weather is set to be clear and sunny until Saturday, although it will continue to be very cold.

Monday 6th January – 10.40 am

School is open and fully staffed (well done everyone!)

There are rumours of another heavy snowfall tonight, with all Rochdale School closed
- there is NO EVIDENCE at all for this!
The BBC weather forecast is for bright sunshine for the next three days,
and there is NOTHING about general closure of all schools on the local authority website (see below).

Fr Robin

Click HERE to go to the Rochdale Metropolitan Borough ’snow’ page.
This is a very useful page with links to all sorts of information about weather, bus services, etc,
and you can opt to have an email sent to you whenever the schools closure list is updated.

Click HERE to go to Real Radio’s ’school closures’ page.

CHRISTINGLE FAMILY SERVICE

Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year Message