Join us each week on Facebook at our page Pakefield Parish Church or YouTube via our Channel Pakefield Church at 10.30 am for our Sunday Service . All videos can be viewed in the page titled Sermons under the menu Services on this site too .
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Churchyard Gardening Group
Fridays at 10.00 am – All welcome to join in with the gardening of the church grounds. Feel free to bring along your own refreshments
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Armchair quiz
Once again Pat and Fil have put together a brain-teaser quiz for us to do in the autumn months. The entry fee is £2.00, and forms are at the back of the church. Please put your £2.00 in the wall safe and completed forms in the red box at the back of the church before the closing date of 24th October.
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Harvest Festival
This will be on Sunday 27th September in church and once again, we will be collecting tins and dry goods to be given to the Lowestoft Foodbank. Donations can be brought to any of the three services if you are attending, or dropped off in the church from 12.00 until 6.00pm on the 27th. If you would like to give a monetary gift these need to be put in an envelope clearly marked ‘Harvest’ and put through the Rectory door and it will be sent off to Tear Fund.
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Annual Parishioners Church Meetings
Our APCM will be on Sunday 11th October 2020 at 5pm followed by Evening Prayer in Church afterwards (more details will be in next week’s notices)
We have 1 vacancy for the PCC and 2 Vacancies for Deanery Synod. We also have a vacancy for 1 Church Warden. All nominations must be received by Sunday 4th October (this will allow for postal votes). Nomination forms are at the back of the Church.
Please put all nomination forms into the red box by the Font. Copies of the APCM reports will be available at the back of the Church next Sunday.
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Dates for your diary
1st October – Gathering to Worship
11th October (Provisional) – APGM in hall
25th October – Blessing of the Herring
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Online Gathering to Worship Meeting via Microsoft Teams – Join us for an online variety of worship, songs, prayers and testimony – please email our Revd. Sharon Lord at rector@pakefieldchurch.com for a link to join!
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Church Services
If you do wish to attend in Church for a service you will need to email Revd. Sharon Lord at rector@pakefieldchurch.com or telephone 01502 516800 to book a place in advance.
The Services in Church currently available are :-
8 a.m Sunday Morning – BCP Holy Communion
10.30 am – Sunday Mornings – in church and online via our Youtube Channel and Facebook page
6.30 pm Sunday Evening – Evening Prayer
Weekdays – Tuesday to Saturday – 8.30 am Morning Prayer.
Please wear a face covering in church to protect your fellow worshippers and please use the hand sanitiser thoroughly on entering the church, before receiving Holy Communion and again on leaving the church. Don’t forget to wash your hands thoroughly as soon as you get home.
There will be no singing in church and strict social distancing will be in place. People will enter and leave church one at a time.
We have to keep a register of who attends our services in church for 21 days. We will be abiding by GDPR rules and regulations and will keep your details safe. However, we will need your permission to share your details if we are informed of a Covid-19 case.
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We are displaying yellow hearts on our cross in church to represent loved ones that have passed away during the pandemic. If have had a loved one pass way during the Covid-19 pandemic and wish a yellow heart to be displayed please contact Revd. Sharon Lord at rector@pakefieldchurch.com or telephone 01502 516800.
