Sunday on 28th September, which is also our Harvest Festival.
The Parochial Church Council has established a sub group of members, under the leadership of Kath Rogers, to put into place the necessary strategy to ensure that we maximise the impact of this initiative in our parish.

This simple idea behind this annual day is to invite those who used to attend a church in the past – whether that is the recent past, or many many years ago – to consider attending a church service, in the hope that, from that experience, they will wish to return to being a regular worshipping member of the church.

Where churches have been involved with this in the past, they have experienced an excellent response and many are able to produce evidence of many people who are once more members of their church.

Obviously there will be a lot of planning required, to ensure that this initiative is a success for us at Holy Trinity and, if you would like to assist in this, please speak with Kath or me. BUT at the end of the day, the most important task will be identifying those to invite. I am sure that everyone reading this magazine will know someone in Formby, who used to attend either Rosemary Lane or Redgate, but no longer do so – indeed you may be just such a person – I invite everyone to prayerfully consider who might be invited to our services that day.

Once you have prayed and have a name, there are three things that you can do.

• Firstly pass on their name(s) and address to Kath.
• Secondly consider whether you might be the person who should be extending a personal invitation for them to come to church; or better still, you could invite them to come with you to our Harvest Festival.
• Thirdly, and perhaps most important of all, commit yourself to pray for them, by name, over the coming months.

Yours in His service

Keith