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Holy Cross Church 'Pew notes' Sept 2013
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Can you help?
Songs of Praise for Holy Cross Day Sun Sept 15th at 10 am Could you help choose the hymns we sing? Please write your choice of hymn on the list in church (though not if you can't come to the service)
Holy Cross Afternoon – Sunday Sept 15th 3.30 – 5.30 pm Could make a cake? please sign the list in church or let Shirley or Gilly know . Could you help with tea? please sign the list or let Shirley know. Could you help with a Messy Church style activity? All is provided; instructions and all you need: please let Shirley, Bridget or Suzi know.
Harvest Lunch Sunday October 6th 12.30 in the school hall. Could you make a pudding? Please sign the list in church or let Sue Clover know. Could you invite someone to come with you to the service or lunch?
Ride and Stride. Sat Sept 14th
Encourage people to sponsor you to cycle, walk, jog, horse-ride around Wiltshire’s churches and chapels in aid of Holy Cross Church and Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust. If you can be in church to welcome visitors, please let Sue Clover know. If you'd like to ride or stride in aid of Holy Cross please let us know.
Holy Cross Church
“Creating opportunities for everyone to experience God's love”
Thankyou to Carol Walker for the drawing of Holy Cross.
September Services at a glance
Sunday Sept 2nd 8 am BCP Communion 10 am Family Service – Jesus enables a woman bent double, to stand tall. Sunday September 8th 10 am Upper Thames Group service at St Sampson's Cricklade with Revd Ken Withington
former vicar of Cricklade. 6.30 pm Evening service of Compline with hymns
at Holy Cross.6.30 pm Deanery Choral Evensong at
Malmesbury Abbey. Sunday Sept 15th Holy Cross Day10 am Songs of Praise 3.30 – 5.30 pm Holy Cross Afternoon and Messy Church IN CHURCH with activities, games, songs, BBQ tea. Great for families. The church will be open for EVERYONE too so come along. Look around and enjoy tea and cake or a cream tea.Sunday Sept 23rd 10 am Holy Communion Sunday Sept 29th . 10 am Upper Thames Group Morning Worship at Holy Cross
Communion at Joan Ashcroft's home on Thursday Sept 5th 11 am and Thursday Oct 3rd.
Assistant minister : Revd. Shirley Danby Tel 01793 751463 [email protected] Lay Minister: Peter Tuck Tel 01285 861466 [email protected] enquiries to Sue Clover: [email protected]
ConfirmationPlease let Shirley know if you'd like to be confirmed. It isn't a test, it isnt about having to believe certain things – it's about wanting to know more of God, about wanting Jesus to show you the way the truth and the life & for his Spirit to be confirmed in you. The Deanery Confirmation is October 29th in Malmesbury Abbey. Confirmation is for anyone of any age, it's for you if you want it. -Harvest Festival Service Sunday Oct 6th at 11 am An event for community, school and church. Why not invite others to come with you?
Harvest Lunch in the school hall at 12.30pm Tickets £10 adults, primary children £4, preschool free. From Sue Clover, Alison Beadle or Linda Tuck. Again why not invite others to come too? Any profit will go to the Kigezi Water and Sanitation Programme.
HOLY CROSS DAY Sun Sept 15th Songs of Praise at 10 am celebrating that we're “alive and well in the village”. Please come along
Holy Cross Afternoon in Church 3.30 – 5.30pm “We are the family of God”
MESSY CHURCH in Holy Cross Church with activities, Teddy Baptism, song, games, activities, treasure hunt, quiz and tea & cakes, BBQ, cream teas. We still don't yet know if we can have the teddy parachuting. (We can't find the parachutes) It's a chance too for anyone to come along, take time to sit and talk or take a look round church.
Rev Judy Ashby. I see from the Church Times that Judy has been licensed as Dean of Women's Ministry (NSM) in the Bristol Diocese. A very good use of her talents I think. Shirley
Prayer Lunches starting again in September 12.30 - 1.30pm on 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month.Wednesday 11th Sept. Bridget Arregger.Wednesday 25th Sept. The Hartlands.Wednesday 9th October. Jan HallWednesday 23rd October Jane Broughton.All welcome. Contact Peter Hartland. 861221.
LEE ABBEY May 2014. PLEASE consider coming -it's a great weekend away. Peter T and Peter H have details & would love you to come with them. Financial help available & it's a great place for children.
Harvest Festival “Water is life ”
We'll collect harvest goods of tins and packets to give to those in crisis through Swindon Food Bank. Our collection and any profit from our harvest lunch will be given to Kigezi Diocese Water & Sanitation Programme which “Meets the needs of the rural poor and water stressed communities in the Diocese of Kigezi” (our Uganda Link Diocese). Pete, Linda and Shirley were able to see the life changing work of this programme. Please give generously in response to God's generosity to us.
Prayers please:Bishop Lee, the Bishop of Swindon, has asked for prayers across the diocese. He has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma which will be treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The positive news is that it's been caught early and the treatment regime is usually pretty effective; Bishop Lee's first cycle of chemotherapy begins Wed 4th Sept. Please remember Bishop Lee, Liz & the family in your prayers in the coming months.
Please pray too for Rev Lee Barnes, licenced as Interim Minister in North Wiltshire. He will take some services & occasional offices in the 4 (out of 6) groups of parishes in a vacancy. He was curate in Malmesbury and lives in Bristol. We don't know yet when he will be in Upper Thames.
Please pray for two Bishop Georges of Kigezi. The current Bishop George is to retire soon and the next Bishop George will be consecrated in January.
If you would like to be part of a Holy Cross or Upper Thames Group email Prayer Network please let Shirley know. You would receive an email with prayer requests (confidential) and you pray in your own time & space.
A prayer for you: Go and know that the Lord goes with you; let him lead you each day into the quiet place of your heart where he will speak with you; know that he loves you and watches over you; that he listens to you in gentle understanding; that he is with you always, wherever you are and however you may feel.
