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St Peter’s offers a variety of styles of worship ranging from traditional Anglican Eucharist based on Common Worship with robed clergy and choir, to child focussed Toddlers’ Praise, Messy Church and Sunday School. Drama and puppets are used at family worship.
Important Covid 19 information -
Due to the National Lockdown effective from 5th November 2020, no public worship services can be held in our buildings.
We will livestream a celebration of the Eucharist each Sunday at 10am on the parish Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/SPeterYarmRd
During Lockdown no baptisms or weddings are legally allowed, but funerals are permitted with a maximum of 30 people present.
We are continuing to hold everyone in prayer. Please join in the Church of England's call to prayer for the nation, participating each day, ideally around 6pm.
The most important task of the Church, and our primary calling as followers of Christ, is to pray and worship God. Through this our local communities (and the whole world) are blessed, sustained, and changed in ways we never fully understand or know.
The clergy keep the rhythm of morning and evening prayer each day on behalf of the people of the parish, bringing their needs and concerns to God in the daily round of prayer and praise.
We encourage you to join in this rhythm of prayer from where you are. If you would like to pray along with us, you’ll find the materials we are using for daily prayer at the CofE website: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer - these are updated daily with the psalms, readings etc that you’ll need.
We’ve also gathered some resources which you can use to engage with our celebrations of the Eucharist, and you can find these below.
Please feel free to contact us if you are anxious or need to talk, or need someone to do something practical like pick up prescriptions or shopping etc – we will try to help.
Fr Bill is on 01642 611603 or 07875 385982 or Bill.Braviner@durham.anglican.org
Fr Philip is on 07825 331119
Fr Daniel is on 07720 613301
With love, prayer and blessings,
Your Clergy
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SAFEGUARDING
FOR SAFEGUARDING MATTERS, contact the Parish Safeguarding Officer - Mrs Ruth Hicks on 01642 678441 or the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser: Beth Miller, Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser, Cuthbert House, Stonebridge, Durham DH1 3RY Email: beth@bethmillerisw.co.uk or beth.miller@durham.anglican.org Mobile: 07968034075
If you are unable to speak to the Safeguarding Adviser and a child, young person or adult is at immediate risk of harm please call 999.
We have adopted the diocesan safeguarding policy, available here
Important Covid 19 information -
Due to the National Lockdown effective from 5th November 2020, no public worship services can be held in our buildings.
We will livestream a celebration of the Eucharist each Sunday at 10am on the parish Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/SPeterYarmRd
During Lockdown no baptisms or weddings are legally allowed, but funerals are permitted with a maximum of 30 people present.
We are continuing to hold everyone in prayer. Please join in the Church of England's call to prayer for the nation, participating each day, ideally around 6pm.
The most important task of the Church, and our primary calling as followers of Christ, is to pray and worship God. Through this our local communities (and the whole world) are blessed, sustained, and changed in ways we never fully understand or know.
The clergy keep the rhythm of morning and evening prayer each day on behalf of the people of the parish, bringing their needs and concerns to God in the daily round of prayer and praise.
We encourage you to join in this rhythm of prayer from where you are. If you would like to pray along with us, you’ll find the materials we are using for daily prayer at the CofE website: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer - these are updated daily with the psalms, readings etc that you’ll need.
We’ve also gathered some resources which you can use to engage with our celebrations of the Eucharist, and you can find these below.
Please feel free to contact us if you are anxious or need to talk, or need someone to do something practical like pick up prescriptions or shopping etc – we will try to help.
Fr Bill is on 01642 611603 or 07875 385982 or Bill.Braviner@durham.anglican.org
Fr Philip is on 07825 331119
Fr Daniel is on 07720 613301
With love, prayer and blessings,
Your Clergy
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
SAFEGUARDING
FOR SAFEGUARDING MATTERS, contact the Parish Safeguarding Officer - Mrs Ruth Hicks on 01642 678441 or the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser: Beth Miller, Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser, Cuthbert House, Stonebridge, Durham DH1 3RY Email: beth@bethmillerisw.co.uk or beth.miller@durham.anglican.org Mobile: 07968034075
If you are unable to speak to the Safeguarding Adviser and a child, young person or adult is at immediate risk of harm please call 999.
We have adopted the diocesan safeguarding policy, available here
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MANY OF OUR REGULAR SERVICES AND EVENTS ARE SUSPENDED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS
We continue to live-stream our 10am Sunday Eucharist as noted above. Toddler Praise is being held via Zoom each week in term-time. Our Bible Study group, and Book Group will continue online. After lockdown finishes, we will be re-starting those activities which become possible. |
St Peter’s has a strong musical tradition with a robed choir.
Other activities that would usually take place include: (all suspended during lockdown)
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St Peter’s Nativity Trail
We are planning to organize a Nativity Trail over four days in Advent this year on Friday 11th, Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Monday 14th December.
A short walkable trail has been planned around Oxbridge with 6 nativity scenes depicted from homes in that area, including Mary and the Angel Gabriel, the journey to Bethlehem, the manger, the shepherds, the wise men and a nativity scene in front of St Peter’s church.
We are also planning a wider trail which may be followed by car and for this we are asking for volunteers to display something relating to the Nativity story from their homes
This could be a scene depicted in the core trail or the angel appearing to Joseph or ‘No room at the inn’, or the prophesy of Jesus’ birth from Isaiah 9:6, or it could be a star or a gift from the wise men, or a donkey or an angel, etc. the choice is yours.
Your display could then be shown from a window or in the garden or on the fence or even in a garden shed.
When you have planned a theme, we are requesting you provide an easy question (suitable for very young children) to go in the trail pack; (e.g. how many angels can you see?)
If you think you could display something from your home please let me know at sue.barber@live.co.uk and I will send you a copy of the nativity hunt pack that has the nativity story and ideas for possible displays.
Once we have a list of homes able to display a nativity related theme we will plot them onto a map to form a trail together with a question about each scene and then we will be ready to go!
We hope this will be an alternative way of connecting our communities this Advent and will bring some hope and light during these dark months.
Looking forward to hearing from you; the more the merrier!
Sue Barber
We are planning to organize a Nativity Trail over four days in Advent this year on Friday 11th, Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Monday 14th December.
A short walkable trail has been planned around Oxbridge with 6 nativity scenes depicted from homes in that area, including Mary and the Angel Gabriel, the journey to Bethlehem, the manger, the shepherds, the wise men and a nativity scene in front of St Peter’s church.
We are also planning a wider trail which may be followed by car and for this we are asking for volunteers to display something relating to the Nativity story from their homes
This could be a scene depicted in the core trail or the angel appearing to Joseph or ‘No room at the inn’, or the prophesy of Jesus’ birth from Isaiah 9:6, or it could be a star or a gift from the wise men, or a donkey or an angel, etc. the choice is yours.
Your display could then be shown from a window or in the garden or on the fence or even in a garden shed.
When you have planned a theme, we are requesting you provide an easy question (suitable for very young children) to go in the trail pack; (e.g. how many angels can you see?)
If you think you could display something from your home please let me know at sue.barber@live.co.uk and I will send you a copy of the nativity hunt pack that has the nativity story and ideas for possible displays.
Once we have a list of homes able to display a nativity related theme we will plot them onto a map to form a trail together with a question about each scene and then we will be ready to go!
We hope this will be an alternative way of connecting our communities this Advent and will bring some hope and light during these dark months.
Looking forward to hearing from you; the more the merrier!
Sue Barber
