Parish Magazine for October 2026

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Another month gone by, and so another issue of our magazine!

We hope that you will enjoy the various items that appear this time – as well as all the usual details of services, etc.

  • A ‘thank you’ for financial contributions, and an invitation to review our giving as we celebrate Harvest and all the gifts we receive
  • Notice about the new arrangements as we welcome our Methodist friends who will be joining us at St Paul’s and at the Fell Church while their building work is ongoing
  • An article about the Co-workers of Mother Teresa and an invitation to join the small ecumenical group who meet monthly for prayer and meditation
  • Report on the situation with the church heating
  • Extract from PEAT’s latest newsletter for our Ecochurch page
  • A photograph of our new bug house with its ‘decorators’
  • A new photograph that has emerged of St Paul’s showing its original entrance and before the clock tower was built

Happy reading!

Please make a note of the events that are forthcoming, eg the visit by Burneside Brass – always worth supporting – on the 25th October, the special service for remembering our loved ones on the 1st November, the Civic Remembrance Day service on  8th November, and the next quiet morning at Field Broughton on 26th November.

Parish Magazine for September 2026

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Hot off the press is our new magazine for September.

All the usual items, but some interesting extras this month.

  • Suggested visits for a road trip
  • Two reports on recent walks
  • A page devoted to St Hildegard of Bingen whose feast day falls on the 17th September
  • Ideas on how to celebrate Harvest and an invitation to the parish lunch
  • An update about the organ and the heating at St Paul’s
  • Details of a ‘quiet day’ at Field Broughton, learning too pray with St Benedict
  • and the answers to the two quizzes in last month’s magazine.

Parish Magazine for August 2026

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Another bumper issue this month with plenty of summer reading!

All the usual items of news, with important details of new email addresses for church officers, plus the following:

  • A report on the parish visit to St Mary’s Church at Wreay, with David driving the school minibus
  • A tribute to Mollie Bell, a long-standing and very active member of St Paul’s
  • Two quizes to test your wits
  • Details of two new bus services
  • Five new pilgrim routes in the north – for those of us who are walkers
  • Advance notice of another quiet morning at Field Broughton Paris ?rooms on 24th September –“Companions on the Way” – learning to pray with St Benefict

Parish Magazine for July 2026

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More reading material in this month’s magazine for you about the events in our parish, past and future!

In addition to all the usual items, others of interest include:

  • A report with photos of this term’s Fun and Friendship event in the Primary School
  • An account of the concert in memory of Charles Edmondson with the Gloriana Choir
  • Details of what happened to the Apostles after the resurrection, and where their remains are today
  • An invitation to join the summer outing to St Mary’s, Wreay, the ‘Pinecone’ church built by Sarah Losh
  • Barbara Ramsden’s interesting account of her visit to the Shetlands with Peter and daughter Sally

Plus details of other events to look forward to, and a suggestion that we might share recommendations/reviews of books we have enjoyed reading

 

Parish Magazine for June 2026

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The Parish Magazine for June has now been printed and is ready for you!  Please pick up your copy in church, at the front or on the table in the back porch – £1 a copy if you have not paid an annual subscription.

Interesting items this month include:

  • Photographs from the Spring fair which raised over £1300
  • A report on the National Emergency Briefing
  • Being a Christian – an article by Archbishop Rowan Williams
  • Details of all the music on offer this month in concerts around the peninsula, including a special one in St Paul’s dedicated to Charles Edmondson, our former organist and choir master
  • An appeal from the Primary School to create an additional multi-purpose learning space
  • And another appeal for your old bras to be collected to fund research into breast cancer
  • A Bible study guide on the book of Revelation

All this in addition to the usual Vicar’s letter, dates for your diaries, timings for services, and pages devoted to Ecochurch.

Happy reading!