St Michael's Church, Stoke Gifford
Living to make a difference
Thursday 9 May is our next Whole Church Prayer Gathering, and we are combining that with communion for Ascension Day.
It starts at 7.30pm in St Michael’s Church, and we will be worshipping together (worship accessible for all congregations), praying together, listening to what God is calling us too, and sharing communion.
For those who would like to, we are encouraging people to fast for the day as well.
Lent began with our Ash Wednesday Communion Service on 14 February at 7.30pm in church.
This lovely service included the opportunity to be signed with the cross in ash, as we began this season of reflection.
If you missed it, you can catch up online here
This Lent we are looking at the practice of Fasting, as part of our teaching series, Practicing the Way, where we learn habits to help us become more like Jesus.
We will be looking at fasting from the following topic headings:
More details on the practice of fasting here
This year’s recommended Lent reading is “Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Live as he did: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did” by John Mark Comer (Available from all good book stores ISBN 0281086672 and currently on offer on Amazon ))
This book was released in January 2024 and complements not only our Lent sermon series on Fasting but other spiritual practices such as Sabbath which we focussed on in 2023.
The Rule of Life podcast is a great alternative if you can’t access the book.
There is also a newly released podcast specifically on the book – listen on spotify here.
Churches across Bristol are joining together on Wednesday 6 March to fast and pray for Bristol.
This is in response to the recent spate of murders and other knife crime, the death of three small children in Sea Mills, and a violent rape in our City Centre. All of these have all focused attention on problems Bristol faces. Many Christians and Churches around our city have of course been praying this is an invitation to some united prayer and fasting. We are inviting you to please us join as we humble ourselves before the Lord and spread a prayer canopy over Bristol.
Churches are all responding in different ways. There is a city-wide gathering at Bristol Cathedral at 6pm.
St Michael’s is responding with a zoom gathering at 6.30pm for half an hour of prayer together. Get the zoom link here
You may wish to fast as well. More details on fasting here
More details on the city-wide response here.
Dads and Kids Breakfast is a wonderful way to spend time with your children and get to know other Dads from the Church in a relaxed and friendly environment.
There will be toys and games for your children to play with as they make friends and breakfast will be available to buy from our Coffee Shop.
The next events for Dads and Kids Breakfast are: