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St Mary’s is delighted to welcome the new Bishop of Chester, who start work this month.  The Rt Revd Mark Tanner was been named by Downing Street as the next Bishop of Chester in May, succeeding the Rt Revd Dr Peter Forster who retired last year. Bishop Mark has been […]

Watch our first service back in church on 30th August. Paul is leading and Sue was preaching. The topic was the central issue of God’s love and forgiveness. Watch the recording here. The service was also watch live by some church members on Zoom, with very positive feedback from those […]

St Mary’s members Jerry and Sue Marshall normally help at Aquasports at this time of year, a Christian camp for teenagers. Inevitably this year the event was cancelled but a Zoom meeting on 4 August provided some spiritual input, as Jerry interviewed Simon Guillebaud, author, speaker and founder of Great […]

We are thrilled to welcome Phil Bishop, as our new Curate, and his wife Caroline. Phil was Licenced on 2 July and formally welcomed at the beginning of the All Age Service on 5 July (watch this here). Phil introduces himself below. Well, it’s great to have finally arrived in […]

A vlog by ReSource Trustee and St Mary’s member Jerry Marshall has just been published by Resource, the Anglican Renewal Ministry. In it, Jerry reflects on the impact churches can make in their communities, and asks whether the current crisis is a kairos moment for the church to re-set the […]

Looking Ahead There will be more “CHAOS” at home on 11 and 16 July. Do join us for games, activities, Bible stories and more. If you are not on the email list to get the Zoom link, email the church office! Looking back We had a great time looking at […]

St Mary’s Church Weaverham are distributing fresh, surplus supermarket food at The Lighthouse Community Centre, Church Street, Weaverham between 9.30 and 11.30 on Wednesday and Friday mornings. A big ‘thank you’ to Helping Hands, Northwich in Need for donating leftover supermarket food and to the supermarkets involved. There is a […]

St Mary’s Young People’s Fellowship continue to meet on Zoom and were recently set a challenge: to send in a picture of themselves engaged in “Extreme Bible Reading”. Some may have come across “Extreme Ironing” and similar crazy activities, where photos are posted of people ironing shirts on the top […]

Rumour had it that St Mary’s member and Licensed Pastoral Worker Linda Jones had developed new liturgical dress for Pentecost… …but it turns out that Linda and her neighbours dress up every bin day to thank their refuse collectors. “It’s so good to enjoy a little bit of fun while in […]

“Looks like the church broke the Internet” joked one Twitter user. The St Mary’s regular on-line service on Sunday was disrupted by what turned out to be a massive UK Zoom outage across the UK on Sunday morning, 17 May. Churches across the country were affected as was the daily […]