Sunday 28th September

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

 

10.30 am    All Age Holy Communion   

                                             Revd Canon Cheryl Collins 

 

Collect

Lord God,

defend your Church from all false teaching

and give to your people knowledge of your truth,

that we may enjoy eternal life

in Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Readings   Genesis 18. 1-8

                   Mark 14.22-25

 

Hymns       StF 409 Let us build a house 

                  Jesus' Love is very wonderful

                   StF 102 For the beauty of the earth

                   StF 571 As your family, Lord, see us here 

                   StF 586 Here is bread, here is wine 

                   StF 569 An upper room

 

The service will also be live streamed and you can watch it here from 10.30 am.

There is a Junior Church Activity sheet available here.

You can read this week's Newsletter here.

 

 

 

 

NEXT SUNDAY

 

Sunday 5th October

Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

 

10.30 am    Harvest Festival Eco Service   

                                             Jenny Carpenter and the Eco Group

 

Please bring gifts for the Cathedral Archer Project

There is a list of most-needed items here or you can donate cash here.

This service will be followed by a Soup & Puds lunch in the church. Please join us – everyone welcome!

 

 

 

Every Monday

         10.00 am – 12 noon   Knit and Natter Group in Room 1, Shirley House 

Everyone welcome to come and knit, sew, craft or just chat and enjoy a drink and a slice of cake.

 

Every Tuesday 

           2.00 - 4.00 pm -  Tuesday Café in Shirley House

The café is for those living at home with memory loss or dementia and their carers.  Hot drinks and cakes, music, memories, singing, stories and more.  For further information ring the church office (0114 2678289) or email office@standrewspsalterlane.org.uk.

 

             

Every Wednesday 

         10.30 am    Wednesday Service in Church

 

 

Monday 29th September

 

         7.30 pm       Interfaith Arts and Crafts Evening, Interfaith Centre, SH

Come and spend some time with colours and paper, experiment with calligraphy or some simple cross-stitch. Use a faith or interfaith theme for your inspiration, bring some ideas to copy. Resources provided, but no teachers. Chat and learn together. From 7.30pm at Shirley House Interfaith Centre - refreshments are included. Also on Zoom, Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link - or 0114 258 8932 for further details.

 

 

Friday 3rd October

         6.30 – 7.30 pm      Harvest choir rehearsal in Church

                       

Saturday 4th October

         9.30 am onwards Working Party in church grounds

Please come and help - even an hour will make a difference!

         10.00 am - 12.00   MacMillan Coffee Morning in Church

   

 

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NEW! You can listen to a podcast of our recent services here!

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Same sex marriage at SAPLC

At St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church, we seek to be an inclusive church, and a place in which every person is celebrated and affirmed.

We are delighted to announce that we have now received consent from both the Methodist Church and the Church of England to use SAPLC for the solemnisation of same sex marriages conducted by a Methodist Minister according to the rites of the Methodist Church, and we have made an application for the church building to be registered for such occasions.

We welcome enquiries from anyone who is considering getting married and who would like to explore this further. Please contact the Revd Naomi Cooke:  minister@standrewspsalterlane.org.uk 

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You can also donate by BACS: Sort code: 05-08-08 Account Number: 36930499
or by cheque payable to: St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church, and posted to St Andrew’s Church Office, 31 Psalter Lane, S11 8YL.

 

Don't forget to Gift Aid your donation if you can, as this will increase the amount we receive by 25%!

 

Regular Giving to St Andrew's Psalter Lane Church  If you do not give to the church through the envelope scheme or by bank standing order, please have a word with Rodney Godber (tel 0114 266 3893) who will explain how this makes your giving to the church easier and more beneficial. If you would like to join the envelope scheme, please contact Janet Loughridge (tel 0114 258 4164)

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NOTICES

 

 

Highfield Stay and Play Baby and Toddler Group: An Opportunity to be Involved  I started working as a Lay Worker in the Church in August, and a key part of the role is to re-open the baby and toddler group at Highfield Trinity Methodist Church in Sharrow. Previously, Highfield Stay and Play thrived and was much appreciated within the local community as a safe place for children to play and for adults to meet other parents and carers.

Highfield Trinity Church has a small team of committed and enthusiastic volunteers. I am very excited to be working with them to re-open the group, which has been missed by those who appreciated the real sense of community, belonging, and caring they found there.

To re-open the group successfully we need a few more volunteers to join the team. This is a great opportunity to foster closer links between the two churches and for us to work together to get the group back up and running. There are a variety of roles available, from offering a warm welcome to guests to setting up and clearing away toys. If you are interested in supporting young families in the Sharrow area, please do speak with me to find out more.

Sophie Peel-Yates, sophie@standrewspsalterlane.org.uk, 07443630571, or talk with me at Church.

 

 

Save the date: Sheffield carols evening Tuesday 9 December 6.30 - 8.30 pm After great success last year SAPLC's Sheffield carols social evening is back! Simon will provide the music for us to join in singing from Sheffield's folk carol tradition. I will be asking for volunteers to help with refreshments nearer the time but for now just make sure the date is marked in your diaries.                 Rachel Morris

 

A golden smile Sandra & I would have been celebrating our Golden Wedding anniversary on Saturday, 27^th September; alas, our best laid plans were quashed when she passed away earlier this year. But I shall be remembering our time together, and her ever present smile, the following day, Sunday 28^th September, when I will be taking a self-sponsored part in the Alzheimer Society’s Memory Walk, 8km round Clumber Park, a place we visited many times over the years. Remember her smile, and if you are so minded, please make a donation to my Just Giving page in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society – and if you pay income tax, gift aid it!  

                                                                            Many, many thanks, Mike Snook

 

 

A message from Nick Jowett  I've just donated to Abigail Jowett's page for The Pituitary Foundation on JustGiving. Obviously it’s a cause close to Hilary and me and it’s a very minority charity, so if you feel you could support, we’d be very happy! 

Can you help by donating to the JustGiving Fundraising Page?                                            Thanks! Nick

 

 

MacMillan Coffee Morning at SAPLC  We’re having a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on 4^th October in church and we would love as many people as possible to come and donate to this amazing cause. We would really like to raise £250.00 for Macmillan if we can. There will be lots more information in and around church in the next few weeks, but please put it in your diary and come along if you can.

Pop in anytime between the hours shown for cake and tea/coffee and to make a small donation, or please donate via our own QR code unique to SAPLC (on the poster in the narthex) if you can’t

make it on the day but would love to give something anyway.

We would also love to have as many home-made cakes or buns as possible, so if you feel you could make something for our coffee morning for us to sell that would be fabulous.

If you want to know more or volunteer to help on the day, then please get in touch.

Thanks,  Jan  Jan Owen 07776261594 janowen@doctors.org.uk

 

 

Soup and Puddings 5th October 2025  Following on from the success of our last soup and puddings meal earlier in the year (attended by over 60 people) we would love to do the same again after the Harvest Festival service on the 5^th  October.

If you can help and provide soup or a pudding or accompaniment, or help with setting up could you let Jan or Mary know, and also let us know what you can make. Soup should be vegetarian and will need to be made on church premises for Health & Safety reasons, but can be made the day before and cooled and kept in the fridge in church, as well as being made on the day. You can bring and use your soup maker too if you have one. Pudding/other foods can be made at home and brought in on the day.  We will be sharing the meal in church after the service as we don’t have access to Shirley House on the 5^th October, but we will make sure there is plenty of space for everyone to eat comfortably.  Many thanks, Jan & Mary

Jan Owen:- janowen@doctors.org.uk 0777 626 1594

Mary Mitchell:- mary.e.mitchell14@gmail.com 0781 744 3993

 

 

Project Christmas Angel Calling all knitters, crocheters, crafty and non-crafty people!

Apologies for mentioning Christmas when it’s still September. This year we would love to send out a St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church Christmas Angel for people in our community to either display or hang on their tree as a reminder of a little bit of what Christmas is truly about.

To do this we need to make lots and lots of little Christmas Angels. They can be knitted or crocheted, and we’ve also thought of making some felt ones so, even if you can’t knit or crochet, there will still be a way to be involved in this wonderful project. We might even organise a couple of craft afternoons in the church as a way of increasing production if

needed.

We would love you to make as many as you want, we can provide simple patterns, but there’s no strict structure (though it would be nice if we could put them through letter boxes withour Church Christmas Info). Any yarn in any colour that can look a bit Christmassy would work, and we could even pool yarn so that anyone who does want to help but doesn’t have

any can still be involved in the project.

If you’re interested in knowing more or want to help, please contact  Jan Owen 07776261594 janowen@doctors.org.uk or Cheryl Collins 07740 557944 cheryl62collins@btinternet.com

 

 

Mapping our Community  Those of you who were at either of our after-service church meetings will remember we expressed a desire to reach out to the surrounding community more. In order to help us think and plan more knowledgeably I offered to do an ‘audit’ mapping both who lives in our area from available statistics and what is happening in our area from research, interviews and going to have a look. I first did this kind of project back in 1993 when I became curate of the old St Andrew’s and it has been a regular part of my ministry. I would welcome anyone who is interested in working on this with me and also any knowledge or ideas any of you have. You can reach me on 07740 557944 or at cheryl62collins@btinternet.com. The aim is to produce something which collects together all this information and our ideas as well as any opportunities to join in with work other organizations are already doing.                                                                  Cheryl Collins

 

 

 

Calling all singers at St Andrew's Psalter Lane Church!  We are planning to have a choir to sing at the Harvest Festival Service on Sunday 5^th October. They are to lead all the hymns and to sing an anthem. Rehearsals will commence in early September, and it is proposed they are 6.30 – 7.30 pm on Friday evenings. They will usually be held in the church. The dates will be as follows: 3^rd October.

We also plan for a choir to sing at the Advent Carol Service on Sunday, 30^th November and the Carol Service on 21^st December. More details about rehearsals for these services will follow in due course, but are likely to start mid-October, and may take place on Friday

evenings, though some may be during the day on Saturdays.

Please let Mary Mitchell (Steward) Mary.E.Mitchell14@gmail.com or Liz Bentley (Director of Music) elizabethbentley@live.co.uk know if you are interested in joining the choir. The

ability to read music is not essential. It would be helpful if you could attend most

rehearsals, even if you can’t make every single one.

 

 

 

De-cluttering at home - Turn Books into Blessings: Easy Fundraising for Churches

How It Works:

1.  Visit WeBuyBooks.co.uk

2.  Scan or enter barcodes for instant quotes

3.  Package your items – we cover postage

4.  Drop off or book a collection

5.  Get paid the next day

6.  Pass the money on to SAPLC, or keep it for yourself if you prefer

See poster and flyers in narthex for full details

 

 

Monthly house group - new members welcome!  If you would like to join the monthly house group that meets at the Morris' house at 7:45pm on alternating first Sunday and Monday of each month, please message Emma on 07454562180. The next session is on Sunday 1st June.

 

 

 

Old Jewellery and Watches to a Good Cause You may be interested to know that old jewellery and watches, in any condition, even if broken, can be donated to the Alzheimer’s Society. There’s a Freepost address which is: Freepost RTKL-TKLJ-STER, Alzheimer’s Society, Unit 14 Amber Business Village, Amber Close, Tamworth, B77 4RP.

 

 

 

Sheffield City of Sanctuary statement

Our church has signed up in support of this statement:

At City of Sanctuary Sheffield we believe in a country where people are safe, welcomed, and treated with dignity. The Government’s new immigration proposals, and the rhetoric accompanying them, take us further away from this vision.

Let’s be clear: yes, there is deep inequality in our society. But it is not caused by people seeking sanctuary. It is the result of political decisions: to underinvest in our public services, to allow a housing crisis to deepen, and to prioritise the super-rich over working people. Scapegoating migrants is a dangerous distraction; one that divides communities, fuels xenophobia, and hides the real roots of inequality.

It’s been less than a year since towns across the UK, including Sheffield, faced far-right violence that targeted people seeking sanctuary and communities of colour. We have seen first-hand the harm caused when government rhetoric and policies encourage hostility. 

These are not the actions of a country committed to building stronger communities. They are the actions of one trying to blame the most marginalised instead of addressing systemic failures. These policies isolate, exclude and punish people who are ready to contribute. People who deserve protection and a fair chance, not hostility.

There is a better way. 

In Sheffield, we see every day how people seeking sanctuary enrich our city: as carers,students, volunteers, neighbours, colleagues, and friends. We know that when people are welcomed, they contribute creatively and help build thriving communities. When people are properly supported and included - to study, to work, to live in a stable home - they thrive. Safety turns into belonging.

We call on politicians, the media and our communities to reject scapegoating and to join us in building a future rooted in welcome, justice and solidarity.

 

 

 

Who to contact for asylum seekers/ refugees

Asylum seekers accommodated in Sheffield will normally be in touch with City of Sanctuary. Melinda (see below) may help in an emergency. The Wednesday ‘drop in’ ( around 150 people) has clothing, conversation, and advice on law, health, accommodation, finance etc. 

For people granted refugee status, for a newly granted case please call 0114 221 1845.

SPRING is the Sheffield Project for refugee integration and growth. For urgent SPRING referral (newly granted refugees in Sheffield only) please email to adminspringcoss@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org

for newly granted refugee referral  please use the link https://sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org/our-work/the-sheffield-project-for-refugee-integration-and-growth/

If you have an urgent request for City of Sanctuary, please contact one of the following people:  

Governance/ CoSS -       Tom Martin ( Director)       (tom@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org)

 

The Sanctuary  &The Drop In – Anna Aitken (anna.aitken@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org) 

Volunteering : emma.milne@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org

System Change and Advocacy – Melinda Mo Martinez (melinda.momartinez@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org) 

Communications and Media work – Annie Feetham (annie.feetham@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org) 

Finance – Angela Argenzio (angela.argenzio@sheffield.cityofsanctuary.org) 

There is a copy of this information sheet on the board in the narthex

  Anne Hollows

 

 

 

All We Can Loose Change Appeal

 Thank you so much for all your donations to All We Can. The collection bowl will be out during Sunday service so please bring along any small change. Thank you again.

 

 

 

Clifford All Saints School

Community monthly prayer group If you are unable to attend but would like to share a prayer request for the group please click here. 

The Psalter Lane building is now closed, and the whole school is at the Ringinglow Road site. The Morris School window - originally one of the pair in old St Andrew’s, of which the one in the narthex is the other - has now been installed in the Ringinglow Road building and looks wonderful. There is a photograph of it on the board in the narthex. 

 

Clifford School Building The old Clifford School building on Psalter Lane is under consultation by Historic England for listing but heavy plant is already on site. It may well get demolished before it is protected. Sheffield could protect it by issuing a Building Protection Notice, but at the moment is not willing to do so. We are being asked to write to the Council’s ‘heritage champion’ at janet.ridler@councillor.sheffield.gov.uk to urge them to protect Clifford. Please do so if you feel inclined.

 

 

The Tuesday Café The café is open every Tuesday from 2.00 - 4.00 pm in Shirley House.  The café is for those living at home with memory loss or dementia and their carers.  Hot drinks and cakes, music, memories, singing, stories and more.  For further information ring the church office (0114 2678289) or email office@standrewspsalterlane.org.uk.

 

 

Car Parking As an Eco Church we would urge you not to bring your car to Church, but to use public transport, walking, cycling and car sharing if possible. If you do come here by car and need to park in the nearby roads, please do so with due consideration to our neighbours. In particular do not block accesses such as by parking on both sides of Cherry Tree Drive, and leave quietly. Thank You!

If you are parking at church, please take care not to park directly opposite the yellow lines marking the path towards Shirley House and Southcroft, as this blocks pedestrian access for people coming to church from Southcroft