News and Events
We are putting as many events as possible on the Events section on our Facebook page. Do check it out, Share, express you're ⭐Interested or click to tell us you're coming; you'll be most welcome!
- Check our Safeguarding page for important information.
- What is GDPR? How does it affect me?
- Please read the update on the planning for additional grave plots.
- The fees for hiring rooms, using amenities and special services for 2021 can be found here.
- The Night Prayers are back! Check out our YouTube channel and, even better, subscribe!
The Bulletin
The Bulletin is dated the 12th and the 19th of September.
Please, click the image above or click here to download the Bulletin.
Following the removal of England's lockdown restrictions (but encouragement to take care particularly indoors) the PCC have been looking carefully at how to move forward for St Mary's services in conjunction with guidance from the House of Bishops.
We recognise that we can only encourage people to follow these steps but we ask that you do where you are able. We are a mixed community with various vulnerabilities for ourselves and those we love and different feelings about risk. This guidance will be kept under review.
Please, unless exempt:
1. Wear masks
2. Wear masks for singing
3. Maintain some social distancing
We will:
1. Increase capacity with rows and some chairs closer together (& some further apart at the back)
2. Keep the larger central aisle to allow people to pass more easily
3. Keep the one-way system for those able to use it & work out appropriate set up & numbers for music groups to enable this
4. Keep the entrance through the main door
5. Keep collecting Test & Trace information (but recognise people may not wish to give details)
We are not going to serve refreshments after services at the moment and we will continue to have communion in one kind only.
Thank you for continuing to show love and care to one another in all of this.
We will continue to meet in Church for our 8.30 am service every week and the 10.30 am service is currently in Church on the 1st and 3rd Sunday (there is now no need to book, people can just attend). Zoom-only, on the other Sundays.
Information from Heart 4 Harlow
"Hi, everyone, thank
you for all of those who joined us for the Annual Review.
Below are some links to things referred to during the course of the
evening which we hope will be helpful for those
present, but also for those who were not able to join us – we do hope
you will continue to pray and work with us during the coming year, for
the glory of God and His blessing upon our town."
- Ron Kingsmill - Trustee and Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Core Group.
Heart
4 Harlow Annual Review Newsletter.
Heart 4 Harlow Introductory Video.
Heart
4 Harlow Mailing List Subscription.
Heart
4 Harlow Community Awards.
Dates for your diary and for prayer
Regular events
Mondays 8 am-9 am (please, join from 7.55 am) Prayer Meeting via Zoom. Please, contact us if you would like to join the Zoom Prayer Time.
Tuesdays 10 am-12 pm Coffee Shop
Tuesdays every two weeks (the next one is the 31st of August) 12 pm-1.30 pm Questions Group
Tuesdays 8 pm-9 pm Soaking Worship via Zoom
Wednesdays 9.30 am-11 am Private prayer in church
Wednesdays every two weeks (the next one is the 8th of September) Tea @ 3 via Zoom
Thursdays 6 pm-7 pm (please, join from 5.55 pm) Prayer Meeting via Zoom. Please, contact us if you would like to join the Zoom Prayer Time.
Other events
Little Fishes Pre-school
Reopens on Monday the 6th of September.
Prayer Day
Saturday the 25th of September. More details to follow.
Evening Service
We will be initially starting a monthly evening service on the 10th of October at 6.30 pm
Tearfund's Big Quiz Night 2021
Saturday the 20th of November. More details to follow.
Times of Prayer
Topic: Every Monday St Mary's prayer
Time: 8-9 am (please, join from 7.55 am)
Please, contact us if you would like to join the Zoom Prayer Time.
Topic: Every Thursday St Mary's prayer
Time: 6-7 pm (please, join from 5.55 pm)
Please, contact us if you would like to join the Zoom Prayer Time.
As many
of the 'Dates for your diary and prayer' as possible, have links that you can
follow. If you'd like to know more about any of the items please feel
free to contact us.
The Calendar
We have added a calendar to our website so now you can check out all the dates for your diary from there. Click on the image above or click here.
In other news...
Click here for information about Starfishes.
"We will remember them."
Please visit the information on WWI, WWII and the War Graves, or via the links, where you'll find subsections to WWI, WWII and the War Graves. These are wonderful and powerful testimonies and stories of those that gave their lives.
Harlow Healing Rooms
Harlow Healing Rooms can be summed up in 6 words: You come. We pray. God heals.
During the Coronavirus outbreak, however, Harlow Healing Rooms must operate online.
Please click here for details and for how to submit your prayer request.
The next Harlow Healing Rooms date is Friday the 3rd of September 2021.
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.