News
Our Christmas Services all seemed to go well and we've welcomed in the New Year. We're now back to the usual routine.
Andy Salmon and Sandra Kearney were both on the Mike Shaft show on Radio Manchester on Christmas Morning. You can listen to the show on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00m9vqs/Mike_Shaft_25_12_2011/. Andy was on at about 10 past 8 and sSandra 15 minutes later so you can skip over the first 2 hours and 10 minutes!
Christmas prayers.
At St Philip's on Monday 19th we had a carol Service and people were invited to write their prayers on a gift tag. We placed these on a large present that was at the front of Church. We repeated this the next morning with St Philip's School Christmas service. here is a photo of the prayers.
There are some beautiful and moving prayers here. Remembering people that we miss, remembering people in need, giving thanks for the good things. Christmas tends to be an emotional time and it probably helps to remember the real importance of Christmas is God's gift to us.
The large present at the front of church reminded us of God's gift to us and we were able to peak inside to see a representation of this. God's gift to us is his own self-giving love revealed to us in a vulnerable baby who grew to become the Saviour of the world.
We have an Art Club at St Philip's. It happens on Wednesdays from 1-3, although to join in with the water colour painting you can come at 12.30. It's open to anyone who is free on a Wednesday lunchtime and in addition to the painting we'll be teaching digital photography, videoing, creative writing and blogging. It's all done in a relaxed friendly atmosphere. You can come along if you simply want to learn to take better holiday snaps or if you already have skills but want to develop them. There will also be opportunities to do local history research and get things online. You don't need a camera but if you have one you can bring it. We hope to be able to offer other activities such as music and dance later. Come along and join in.
Photos posted by the Art Club can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69583769@N03/
For the latest from Chapel St Community Arts see the blog at http://cscarts.wordpress.com/
Manchester Confidential recently interviewed Andy Salmon and you can find the interview here.
Lots of people are very familiar with the roadworks on Chapel St at the moment. We're hopeful that it will be very nice when it's finished! For Holy Week Andy Salmon created a "Stations of the Cross" using images of hands and images from Chapel St. The one below is "Jesus falls for the first time" If you want to have a look, they are on Andy's Picasa pages. There is also a video version on Youtube. If you're wondering what the Stations of the Cross are they're a traditional way of telling, in pictures, the story of Jesus' journey carrying his cross through Jerusalem and his death. You can find out more in wikipedia.
There is a new Team Vicar in Weaste, Seedley & Langworthy. Find out about Charlie here.
Salford All Saints Team website here.
St Philip's Church have made a very nice video. It's on YouTube and you can see it here. It's been made by the very talented Eloise. On the SalfordChurch YouTube Channel you can see other videos and we hope to keep adding to them.
Chapel St Community Arts. There is a new website for this project so click on the link above to find out more. The website is still in development but there is some interesting stuff on there.
Video of Sacred Trinity on a Sunday Morning. The Chapel St community Arts Website has a link to this video here: http://cscarts.wordpress.com/recent-projects/375-year-anniversary-sacred-trinity/exhibition-preview-2/