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We are hosting an Enneagram course at St Michael’s Centre on 25 -27 April

The dates and times are:

• Thursday 25 April – 6pm – 8.30pm 

• Friday 26 April – 9.45am to 6pm then fish and chip meal together.

• Saturday 27 April 9.45am to 12.45pm

Enneagram is a great tool to help you get to know yourself better. With knowledge comes self-awareness, healing and acceptance. It isn’t really a personality type test, it is more what motivates us.

The course will be run by Beckky Widdows. Becky worked as a spiritual director at Trinity College, Bristol for many years and at Lee Abbey as a lay chaplain. She now works freelance in spiritual direction, retreat work, Enneagram teaching and counselling.

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For further information please email karenneedham@stmichaelsbristol.org

The course will cost £50, if you would love to do it but if the cost is an obstacle to you attending please do get in touch.

A service of celebration of the life of Janice Stace is taking place in the auditorium on Friday 19 January at 2.30pm, and all are welcome.

Following the service refreshments will be served.

Donations in memory of Janice may be made for the benefit of Pink Ribbon Foundation via this link

For those who are unable to make it the service will be live streamed on youtube – the link is here

The committal is taking place beforehand, and is for family and close invited friends only.

Thinking about your summer holiday plans?

Why not join us and our families this year at New Wine?

5 days of camping, worship, teaching with around 15,000 people – from 25 to 30 July.

To sign up go the New Wine website and when you book make sure you select St Michael’s so you camp with us. Plus if you volunteer as part of the NW team tickets are as low £30 for the week!

Come for all five days, or maybe just for a day – bring family and friends.

More details and booking info on the New Wine website.  

https://www.new-wine.org/events/newwine24/

Kintsugi Hope is bringing their Brighter Days Tour to St Michael’s Centre on Saturday 18 November.
It starts at 7:30pm in our main Auditorium and tickets are £8 per person.

Join Patrick Regan OBE and Natasha Petrovic for an evening of humour, music and inspiration. The Brighter Days Tour is packed full of practical tips alongside stories of struggle and strength.

This evening is for all of us who want tools to invest in our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health so we can look forward to a healthier and more hopeful future.

St Michael’s Centre will be selling refreshments before, during, and in the interval.

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Each year when we celebrate Harvest, we collect non-perishable food items to donate to the local foodbank.

We are celebrating Harvest on Sunday 1 October this year, so please bring along non-perishable, in-date food items. The most-needed items are listed below.

You may also wish to consider donating directly to North Bristol Foodbank either financially or items that are needed. They have a Harvest appeal on this link.

Together with South Gloucestershire Council service for Resettling Communities,  we hosted an outdoor Mid-Autumn Festival on Friday 29 September on the Green. This was to mark the Moon Festival, which many of our Hong Kong Community celebrate.  A team from St Michael’s worked with South Glos Council staff to plan the event and it was a great evening! It was featured on BBC Points West just before the event started, and many people came along to celebrate.

St Michael’s is fortunate to have a team of people running our Audio and Visual systems every Sunday for services and midweek events for outside clients. 

We all support each other via the WhatsApp Group, but most of us don’t know each other face to face.

On Friday 25 August from 6pm, we will hold a BBQ social in the Auditorium (and back car park). Once we have eaten and chatted we will sit down to talk about all things tech, Pray and reflect. 
Then we will get both Audio Desks set up (the desk from the church as well as the desk in the auditorium), proclaim, lights, etc and try out any ideas people want to try. We will work on solutions to problems people have, and maybe even run some competitions. 

Burgers and Hot Dogs will be provided. Please bring own drinks (but not by the Sound Desk!) Click here to sign-up to let us know you are coming!

A Sent People – Church Graft Response

Revd Vicky Wicks has responded to the call:

“To graft an ordained leader with a team of thirty people from St Michael’s Stoke Gifford into the life of Holy Trinity Stapleton. The focus: to seek a vision that will enable us to reach out with the good news of Jesus, to make disciples and to serve the local community.”

Vicky, together with husband Rob, will be leading a team to go from St Michael’s to build a new community and form a new vision for Holy Trinity Stapleton.

There will be a commissioning service for Vicky, Rob and the team on Sunday 3 December at 6.30pm in the auditorium.