Woosehill Church Covid 19 Update – 03/04/2020

You will be aware that the government has introduced measures aimed at preventing the further spread of corona virus, the effect of which is that our usual pattern of Sunday services and other midweek meetings is on hold.

There will, therefore, be no public church services at the church or church-run groups until further notice.   We are very much still here though – if you need prayer please contact us on woosehillprayerchain@gmail.com or if you need any practical help call us on 0118 979 2122.

In the meantime, services will continue to be held on-line as follows:

House group meeting on today Monday, 1st June, evening at 7.30 pm:

Woosehill Church Home Group, a message from Geoff Peck

There is no weekly church at the moment, but we are now having the Monday night home group every week in our own homes. We would love as many people as possible to join us each Monday. We will be talking about the Easter story for the next few weeks. We are using Zoom for the meetings, so you will need to have Zoom installed on your phone, tablet or computer. I have to send an invitation for the Zoom meeting to all attendees, so if you are interested, please email me on geoffpeck@hotmail.com. I look forward to seeing you!

Tuesday Bible Discussions
Time: Tuesday evenings at 08:00 PM

 

Sunday Services for 31st May

9.30 Anglican Service –  a switch in the way the streaming will be available. It will still be accessible through Facebook, and there is already an Event and Post on the Church Facebook page (St Pauls Facebook), but it will also be available directly through St Paul’s web site(http://www.spauls.org.uk). Look for the Service thumbnail  on the website and click on it to see the live stream.

10.30 Methodist Service – an Audio service, with hymns, taken by Revd. Catherine Bowstead. and with Mike Bowstead leading the prayers. Available on Wokingham Methodist Church web site (wokinghammethodist.org.uk). Go to Sunday Worship – recorded services page

(https://www.wokinghammethodist.org.uk/index.php/worship/sunday-services)

A Virtual, (Zoom), coffee group meets at 10.45 after the Service from St. Paul’s

For information regarding these Zoom meetings and on how to join in, contact Lynn Smith on: woosehillchurchnews@gmail.com

 

 

 

There are several other ways of participating in real & virtual services – the Methodist Church has:-

Live-streamed services

Wesley’s Chapel in London will continue to live-stream worship, adapted for no physical congregation.

Service times

Wednesday 12:45  Thursday 12:45  Sunday 9:45 and 11:00.

All these services will be available at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUAUqhmhevz5sqhh72LIMxA

 

The BBC has announced it is launching a virtual church service on Sundays amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The virtual church service will take place on Sunday mornings at 08.00am across local radio in England. (Our Local Station is Radio Berkshire).

The BBC will also aim to broadcast a weekly Sunday morning church service on BBC One, but this will be subject to outside broadcast capacity.

This short act of worship has been prepared for you to use if you are unable to attend church, (depending on your browser this may download a PDF file for you to open & use):-

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Welcome to Woosehill Church and our Website – Making Christ known in Woosehill.  We are a relaxed and friendly ecumenical church in Woosehill on the Reading side of Wokingham. We welcome everybody into our church. We have an informal and friendly style of worship, with many of our services having a children’s activity, which aims to be inclusive to all.

Woosehill Church is an Anglican – Methodist partnership; witnesses together of God’s love here on Woosehill and beyond.

We are a ‘Conventional District’ within the Anglican parish of St. Paul’s Wokingham, in the Methodist Circuit of Berkshire Surrey Borders, and with close links to Wokingham Methodist Church. We are members of Churches Together in Wokingham.

Links to the Parish and Circuit: St. Paul’s Church – http://www.stpauls-wokingham.org.uk/
Rose Street Methodist Church – http://www.wokinghammethodist.org.uk/

There is a new link at the bottom of the Notice Sheet page should you need to access the Duties Rota