Help The Heroes Vantage Market To Take Pace

ON Sunday, 15 April 2012, Susan Hayward, who owns the shop called Susan Hayward on Post Office Avenue, Southport will be holding a Vintage Pop Up Market at the Southport and District Temperance Society on   London St., Southport. Should you wish to take part, the event starts at 9.30am for traders to set up stalls. The public can enter from 12 noon to 4pm. Entry will cost £1. Susan said, "Come and Join us on a walk down Memory Lane, from Downton Abbey, Wartime 40's up to the mad 80's, it will all be there at the vintage pop up market. A Sunday afternoon filled with vintage bargains, entertainment and delicious tea & cake, who can resist? The market is set within a beautiful old building in the heart of Southport. Its large ballroom will accommodate plenty of stallholders making it the perfect location for this type of event. If you want to set up a stall or have any questions call me on:-01704 545567. Also for more information visit:- bmycharity.com/SusanHayward  and also facebook.com."

Liverpool Anglican Diocese

IT has come to our notice that the Parish share, payable by all the Church of England Parishes, in the Liverpool Anglican Diocese, is used for developing people in ministry. Most importantly, it also enables the Diocese to reach more people, so that they can hear, and be touched, by the Church of England's message about the "good news about the love of Jesus." 80% of the cost of parish ministry is paid for from the parish share. Almost £94, out of nearly every £100, is spent supporting and training the Diocese’s clergy, while a further £2.80 is used to aid in the funding of the next generation of the church’s leaders. Without it the Church of England says that the Liverpool diocese would not be able to pay stipends, train clergy and readers, provide adequate housing and support our work in church schools nor would it be possible to support our vision of having a "sustainable, led, transforming Christian presence in every community." The parishes are very good and generous with their payments, of their amount, of the Parish Share, but it is a hard fact that for every 1% of the parish share that the Diocese is unable to collect, it means a loss of around £70,000; in other words, that is equal to being unable to fund 2 full time ministers, with the dire consequences of such a situation having to be tackled the Church of England has revealed on Merseyside.  The Diocese has an excellent collection rate, for which it is very grateful to the many parishioners from whom the funds come via part of the Sunday Church services collections. The Diocese also says that they recognises that:- "times are tough and that parishes have many financial pressures to cope with, yet our congregations continuing generosity, allied with sacrificial giving, enables so much to be done in building God's kingdom here within our Diocese. The Diocese would like to thank them for their generosity to the Diocese of Liverpool."