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In this Issue God and Me

Messy Church

Comedy Hall

Prayers

Finance & Corps Retreat

Flower List

Future Dates

ChristmasVisits

Word Search

Sudoko

Core Groups

Community Update

Community Carol Service

Family & Candle services

Parcel Packing

Welcome In Charity Shop

Retirement & Welcome

Poem

Well here we are, another new year, and for some,

another new start. And on 13th January we’ll be

looking again at our relationship with God as we

share together in Commitment Sunday. Following

on from last year’s theme of Fit 4 Life, this year

we are being encouraged to Go Deeper, using

Ephesians 3:14-19 as the basis.

For the past couple of years, we have focused on

different Spiritual Disciplines to set us up for the

year, but this year throughout January and

February we are going to be going deeper in

prayer – learning more about it, trying it out,

asking the awkward questions of how, why,

where, when. Prayer is the foundation of our

Christian journey as individuals, and could not be

more important for the future of this church.

But it’s not just ourselves we will be thinking of.

February sees the launch of the Self Denial

appeal, when we will be looking at the work of

The Salvation Army around the world and will be

asked to give financially towards it.

So as we think of our spiritual health and our

commitment to God’s work around the world, as

we spend the year Going Deeper with God I pray

that you will be filled to the measure of the

fullness of God, that each of us will have life to

the full. Debbie

Salvat ion Army Woking January/February 2013

F R O M T H E C .O’ S D E S K

T I D I N G S

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God and Me

Just recently I keep seeing a sign

which tells me "To keep calm

and carry on" This is not always

as easy as it may sound. There

are many things that try to hinder

me, distracting thoughts, being in

a hurry, and not paying full at-

tention when God is trying to tell

me something. However I am

aware that God is with me every

moment of every day, His Holy

Spirit is guiding and empowering

me, sometimes in unexpected

ways. For me Bible reading and

prayer times are vital, my best

time for prayer is about 5am

when I can talk to God about the

day ahead and ask Him to help,

guide and give me the energy I

will need for that day. He never

lets me down.

Gill.

More from our new series entitled “God and Me” where members of our

Church Family tell of what God has done for them.

Design for Life A weekend to help you discover God’s design for your life.

Would you like to take a break from your usual routine, reflect on where you’ve been, the people you’ve met, the experiences that have shaped you? Are you wondering about the future and what God might have in store for

you? This is a great weekend where you can do just that.

Whether you are near the beginning of your journey or if you’ve been travelling the same route and want to stop and take a breather, DFL is for you. For more details

please see Debbie or Will. 25th – 27th January 2013 6th – 8th September 2013

7th—9th June 2013

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What an absolute pleasure it is to

have the opportunity to be a part

of something so fun, so fulfilling

and also so messy.

It is such a delight to see, on av-

erage, 30 children & families

coming into this hall to attend

Messy Church and enjoying it so

much. It’s brilliant to see how

much fun they can have as a

group whilst learning about

someone who loves them more

than they could ever know or

understand, this definitely ex-

cites me.

Since I have been here we have

learnt about following Jesus,

Saying sorry, growing with Jesus

and Listening. It is so special

spending this time with the chil-

dren and listening to some of the

stories that they have. Some of

the questions those little ones

have are so challenging at times,

often you have to think about

how to answer them.

I really look forward to spending

next year focusing on stories

from the Bible, which will teach

them about being brave, facing

your fears and how special they

are. It really is an exciting time

and I simply ask that you will

remember Messy Church &

everyone who comes to join us

in your prayers.

Thank you. Sian

Messy Church

Little baby on the hay, soon there'll be another day when nails shall pierce Your hands and feet as You provide our sin's defeat.

Risen Jesus on the throne, we lift our praise to You alone- for You're the gift that we receive the moment that our hearts believe. - Roy Lessin


Comedy Hall D.O.H.

(Department of Humour)

At the start of the nativity play, five children were to

come on, in order holding cards which spelt H E L L O .

unfortunately, the child with the fifth letter became con-

fused and went on first.

The Christmas message, “Glory to God in the Highest” in

large letters was hanging outside a High street church.

One night a strong wind blew down the letter “e”. Now it

reads, “Glory to God in the High st.”

After Christmas, three children were asked what they had

done on Christmas day. One, the son of a vicar, said that

the family had been to church, then at home had opened

presents and sung a carol. A Roman Catholic boy said he

had been to Mass, opened his presents and sung carols.

A Jewish boy said his father owned a toy factory. They

had visited the factory, looked at the empty shelves and

sang, “What a friend we have in Jesus”.

The Songsters went to sing carols at an old folks home.

After a few carols, the residents were asked if there was

anything they would like. One elderly lady replied, “I

would like to go to bed”.

The curate took his wife to the maternity hospital and

said that he would ring later for news. When he rang lat-

er, he dialled the wrong number and got the County

Cricket Ground. “I brought my wife to your place this

morning, is there any news?” He was surprised to be told:

“Yes, there are seven out and the last two were ducks.

Keep smiling Major Laugh


Shirlee Green

Dorothy and Jim Henley

Kirsty Jones

Ian and Alison and the GloCon team

Chris and Sandra Hall as they commence their new appointment to

Swindon Gorse Hill.

. . . and also these past members Jenny Dibsdall, Barbara and Hnuna

Other subjects for prayer Teddy Toddlers Group

Drop-in Café

Messy Church

SALT visits

Sunday School team - it's been a great start, full of enthusiasm.

Please continue to pray for the children, that they may really know

God, and for the leaders, stamina!

Please pray for these members of our

church family

PRAYER MEETING

Everyone is invited to join with us on Sunday mornings for

prayers at 10.30 am.

We meet in one of the general purpose rooms and would be

pleased to see as many of you as possible.

God Bless Audrey


The Christmas period this year

started with the Christmas Fair

when £1106 was raised towards

our funds. This was up £261

from last year, a fantastic

achievement.

Our efforts continued with the

playing of Christmas Carols

from the beginning of December

right up to the Sunday before

Christmas when we appeared on

BBC Radio Surrey for the first

time. As always there was great

appreciation and an amount of

£4,272 was raised, up £123 from

last year. This has been supple-

mented by other donations from

an ever generous general public

of approximately £1000 as well as

just under £500 from Waitrose

from their token scheme. As you

will know, all this helps to fi-

nance the work we do in the com-

munity, including the distribution

of parcels and food vouchers to

the needy at Christmas.

Finally, the Community Carol

Concert raised a record breaking

£706 for the Mayors Charity Ap-

peal, which this year was Mac-

millan Cancer Support.

Andy Stickland Treasurer.

Financial Tidings

Corps Retreat 2013 We are planning a weekend away for the Corps in July:

To facilitate times of worship and prayer together

To provide new spiritual input/direction/stimulation

To encourage interaction between different

members of our church.

To have fun!

As much a rest, as a conference

We have done this a number of times in the past and they

have been very blessed occasions. Look out for more details

very shortly

FLOWER LIST

January

6 Ruth and Gordon

13 Jan Reed

20 Pam Elliot

27 Christine Hadfield

February

3 Jan Howlin

10 Claire Brooks

17 Ruth and Wendy

24 Richard Goff


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FUTURE DATES

January

Sunday 6th 11.00am Morning Worship

Led by Ted and Freda Benneyworth


Commitment Sunday Led by Cadet Mark Scoulding

Monday 14th 8.00pm Corps Council at Hall



Led by Cadet Mark Scoulding

6.00pm Songs of Praise

February

Sunday 3rd 11.00am Morning Worship

Launch of Self Denial Appeal

Monday 4th 8.00pm PCC at 58 Eastmead




Led by Cadet Mark Scoulding

January/February

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T I D I N G S


Christmas Visits to the Homes

“The Mount”

On Tuesday 27th November we

launched into the first visit in our

busy schedule singing and play-

ing Christmas carols at the care

homes in and around Woking.

We went to "The Mount" in St.

Johns where Joan, who worships

with us every Sunday, resides.

We sang a selection of carols and

some humorous readings went

down very well followed by a

special thought for the evening.

Our visit was much appreciated

by all and we were pleased to

join them for a welcome cup of

tea and home made cakes after-

wards.

Wendy Taylor.

Our second home was to Sheer-

water House. This was the first

time we had visited this home

and we were given a good wel-

come.

The residents were all ready to

join in with the carols, they also

enjoyed the band and particularly

the Songsters.

As usual we enjoyed a cup of tea

or coffee and some refreshments

before we made our way home.

Sheerwater House

Brockhill

On Tuesday evening December

11th the Woking Salvation Army

band and Songsters came to

bring us the Christmas message

under the leadership of Jo. It was

greatly appreciated and enjoyed

by all the residents.

Many thanks for making the time

to come and see us.

Mim


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September/October

Life and Soul Meets at the Church 10.00am

January Friday 11th 25th

February Friday 8th 22nd

Denvale Group Meets at Margi’s 2.30pm

January Thursday 17th

February Thursday 7th 21st

The Nomads Meet at various venues 7.30pm

January Thursday 17th

February Thursday 7th 21st

The Full Monty Meets for breakfast at various venues 9.00am

January Saturday 19th

February To be advised

Calendar Girls Flexible days/times

Contact Rhona 01483 474079 or Margaret 01932 353739

Hearts and Crafts Meets at the Church 7.30pm

January Thursday 10th 24th

February Thursday 14th 28th


As I type it is a beautiful sunny day

and all is quiet here at the hall, but it

is a deceptive kind of quiet. It is the

deep breathe before the final push

towards Christmas. Yesterday was

the Community Carol Service and

tomorrow is the Slimming World

Christmas party, then the Cameo

party on Wednesday and then the

volunteers Christmas knees up on

Thursday, Bright Sparks party on

Friday. But today all is calm, all is

bright. As I take stock of the last few

weeks I can honestly say it has been

a rollercoaster ride both emotionally

and physically. Peoples generosity

this year has been overwhelming

from the chap who came in with his

winter fuel allowance to the little girl

with some toys that she wanted to

give to other children. All have giv-

en the very most that they can. Peo-

ple have been offering their time to

help, taking holiday from work to

help with the parcel wrapping day.

Acts of huge kindness, all gratefully

received.

Although there still is a lot of Christ-

mas to go, the diary for next year is

as action packed as ever. In January

we will have been here for 5 years,

which seems incredible. We have

come a long way since the opening

of this hall, I'm not just thinking of

activities or programmes which are

now in place, but in friendships, re-

lationships, foundations and links

into the community all of which

have been forged with love, care and

a vision which goes back over the

decades. If anyone were to ask me

what my hopes are for the next year

it would be for courage and bold-

ness in our conversations, to be

brave in tackling the in-justice

which we see around us and if I was

allowed one more it would be to

keep God at the very centre of eve-

rything we do and I know that that

should go without saying, but I think

sometimes amid the busyness it can

be easy to just plough on because

we are a Church and hey that's what

we do.

I would like to wish you a great new

year, a chance to start afresh or to

make resolutions that you will do

your very best to keep at least to the

end of the week or is that just me!

God Bless you,

Jan Howlin

Community Services Managers

update


It doesn’t seem possible that it’s

26 years since Ted and I led our

first Carol Service in Woking!

Now retired, what a great experi-

ence to have no responsibility,

no worries and just sit back and

enjoy! After an excellent lunch

– thanks Jan, just my sort of

food it was time to get the ‘slap’

on as parents who had come to

support the choir from St An-

drew’s School – Michael Aspel

groupies and regular attendees

began to trickle in! The song-

sters got us off to an excellent

start with ‘Sing Gloria’ and the

easy banter between Michael

Aspel and Pete Stickland set the

mood for the afternoon. Michael

Aspel - who looks so good in the

flesh, gave several humorous

readings adopting various ac-

cents and we’re so glad he didn’t

get asked to do ‘panto’ this year.

Readings by Gervase Phinn are

always so good because they’re

Community Carol Service


recounting real life

and Michael cer-

tainly conveyed the

humour.

St Andrew’s School

choir, in crisp uni-

forms, presented so

well – even if some

did show how the

wearer had grown –

short blazer sleeves

with large snow

white cuffs or but-

tons and button

holes that barely met! Their

singing, although having to

change their programme slightly

due to illness was delightful, and

well done to the two young la-

dies who sang ‘Baby Jesus’.

The Mayor, Councillor Michael

Smith, who had given us an in-

sight into his exciting mayoral

year proved to be an excellent

wise man when he was roped

into the nativity presentation.

Now nativity presentations al-

ways have various features other

than the story itself – children

and usually red faced parents

somewhere in the audience and

this was no exception. All Star’

presentation gave us everything

– from the little model Mary and

Joseph exploding out of the first

gift to one member of the cast

who surely needs to be chan-

nelled into a school for acrobats

– a very red faced Mum but

many of us were jealous of his

flexibility!

Plenty of carol singing, excel-

lently supported by our band

who have worked tirelessly

throughout December, the

Christmas story clearly read, ‘O

come all ye faithful’ to conclude

with and then we tumbled out in

to the night. A great afternoon,

from lunch to music, to singers,

to acting, to the £706.08 raised

for MacMillan Nurses, the

Mayor’s chosen charity – thanks

everyone – you’ve made one

retired officer very happy!

Freda


What a wonderful day

of blessings we all re-

ceived as we wor-

shipped together on

Christmas Sunday!

Such a delight in the

morning service as the

children showed us in

their unique way how

they would celebrate

the coming of our Lord

with the theme,

“Superhero”

The Zebedees cheered us with

their presentation, accompany-

ing music with percussion in-

struments as only wee ones can.

Continuing on in the programme

we enjoyed the Bright Sparks

nursery portrayal of the Nativity

with natural youthful enthusi-

asm! All of the leaders are to be

commended for a job well-done!

The evening service with can-

dles aglow, carol singing and

various scripture readings ended

our day with the re-

minder again of the

true meaning of

Christmas, setting the

stage once more for

our acceptance of

God’s Son, Jesus as

Lord and Saviour.

Peace on earth and

Good Will to all men.

Louise

Family and Carols by Candlelight

Services


Christmas Parcel Packing Day I have been asked to write a few

lines about the Christmas Parcel

Packing Day.

Well what can you say. We start

at 9.30am and away we go, you

look around to see mountains of

toys, books, games, puzzles etc.,

and a wonderful array of soft

toys which melts your heart.

They are so varied and beautiful,

so cuddly one wonders at the

face of the small person opening

the wrapping and finding a love-

ly friend.

Then you turn round to see the

adults presents not so beautiful

but needy and useful and includ-

ing a good selection of tinned

food.

That is what packing day is all

about, one forgets the aching

back and tired wrists and the

wonderful sight of a trolley with

tea and coffee trundling towards

you — what joy!— and the day

has passed so quickly and the

mountains diminished, (until

next year). Oh Yes! Dorothy

Dear Mrs Locke

We want to write to say thank you very much to The Salvation Army

for the gift parcel’s we picked up last week for the residents. They

were very grateful to have a gift to open, and the food will come in

useful for them, as many of them are on a very low income.

We really appreciate your continued support for us, which makes a

big difference to our residents.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

Yours sincerely

Holly Wilcox Supported Housing Worker


For a number of years, The Salvation Army has been reaching out to the people of Horsell. During that time, not only are we selling goods at reasonable prices, but we have also been able to help those in need, offer a listening ear, be a support to those who really need it and also give confidence to our volunteers.

Although much more than a money-maker, the shop does provide an important source of income to our Corps, al-lowing us to work in the community here in Woking.

Over recent months several key volunteers have left due to other commitments, gaining employment or moving away, and this has left our volunteer base depleted. So unfortunately over the past couple of months, almost on a weekly basis, there have been days when we have been forced to close early.

Without volunteers, the shop cannot function. We really do need your help. Please consider whether you are able to give just 2 hours a week to help out in this ministry of the Corps. It can be so rewarding, knowing that you are part of a team, working to help those who need it most. Thank you for taking the time to consider this.

Welcome In Charity Shop

Our corps cook book is now available, recipes have

been given by members and friends of Woking

corps. Why not buy one from the coffee shop ?


The band made a

little bit of history

when they played

carols live on BBC

Radio Surrey on the

Emily Jeffery

breakfast show on

Sunday 23rd

December, here we

are waiting for the

“red light”.

We moved in to our new halls 5 years

ago. Jan Reed saw the opportunity to

start a mother and toddler group and so

“Teddy Toddlers” was born. After only

a few weeks its popularity grew and a

waiting list was created.

Not happy with this Jan took the initia-

tive and started a second group. So for 5

years each Monday during school term

our hall has been heaving with children,

parents and grandparents from 9am till

about 3pm.

Jan has now ‘retired’ and passed the

responsibility to Sian. So we say thank

you for all the contacts you have made

and the fun you have given the children.

Margi has also retired after 20 years of

leading Home League and CAMEO, no

mean achievement, again many contacts

made over all those years.

We wish both Jan and Margi God’s

blessing, and who knows He may have

something else for them to do in the

future.

Retirement

We have been pleased to welcome Ted

and Freda Benneyworth into our fellow-

ship. They retired from their last ap-

pointment at Derby and moved to be

nearer their family.

Freda has taken her place in the Song-

sters and Ted has joined the band.

We are also pleased to welcome Louise

Stickland who has moved from Pentic-

ton, Canada. She married Peter (or did

Peter marry her!) in November last year.

Louise was very busy in the Corps at

Penticton and no doubt will soon get

involved at Woking

Welcome


Tidings is a special book for our Woking Church

Gives us pages good to read and dates to check and search

The Christmas worship message so very true

We put it into 500 parcels new,

For persons around our district here.

Prayers are given, we believe God’s love has no fear.

Our Woking Mayor shared in Community care,

And our guest Michael Aspel good readings to share.

The annual Cameo Christmas party day.

I accepted Jan’s thanks for my retirement way,

Twenty years leading Home League and Cameo members true

God’s promise in my calling pastoral care to do.

Now we all have a New Year of God’s love to share around

Prayer from our hearts gives a powerful sound.

Strength in our ministry with the Holy Spirits power

Will cover all of God’s promises every single hour.

Happy New Year

Margi

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