Joyfully connecting Jesus with the community of High Green through a shared journey of hope, service and love.

News Letter December 2021 Greetings to all our church family with our latest News Letter giving further

updates on activities and news at St Saviour’s.

December Worship at St Saviour’s Here are details of this month’s services.

5th December 11.00am – Holy Communion

12th December 11.00am – Morning Worship

19th December 11.00am – Holy Communion. 19th December 6.00pm – Carol Service (see below)

24th December 11.30pm – Midnight Mass (Holy Communion)

25th December 9.00am – Christmas Day (Holy Communion)

26th December 11.00am – Morning Worship

Nine Lessons and Carols Service 19th December 6.00pm

Invite your neighbours and friends to hear the Good News, and share

the joy of the Christmas story.

Followed by Drinks and Mince Pies (plus options for those of you

who don’t like them or have already eaten too many!)

This may be subject to change depending on current COVID advice

but please be assured all precautions will be in place to keep everyone as safe as possible.

Christmas Day Communion – 9.00am 25th December

If you are planning to attend the Christmas Day Service we’re encouraging folks to

bring your favourite gift!!

John 1 v 14 “The Word became flesh and made his

dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory

of the one and only Son, who came from the Father,

full of grace and truth.”

Carols in the Park and Carols in the Pub - Wednesday the 15th of December, 7.00pm in Chapeltown

Memorial Garden and 8.15pm in Wetherspoons, Chapeltown. Come and sing with us - laid on by Chapeltown

Churches together.

PCC Meeting on Monday 8th November 2021 Here’s a summary of what your PCC discussed at the meeting,

Finances

The full amount of our Common Fund pledge of £20,000 for 2020 has

been paid. A positive feedback was received from all Church Hall

groups following the notification of a 25% increase in rental charges.

Transition Group - St Saviour’s Transition Group representatives (Steve Fiander and Sarah Hulme)

updated PCC members with progress of their meetings with St Johns where they discussed co-

ordinated approaches to weddings, baptisms, funerals, Sunday Services and administration. The

views of the PCC members will be fed back at the next Transition Group meeting on 20th January.

Subsequent discussions will then take place with congregations at both churches.

Church Development Group - It was confirmed the visit of the DAC representatives to St

Saviour’s would take place on Tuesday 16th November.

Foodbank - The PCC agreed that some of the current surplus supplies of tinned foods be donated

to The Archer Project.

Social Media Policy - It was agreed to add the Diocese Social Media Police to our website and

share with the congregation in the New Year.

World War Two Memorial - See separate notice below

Next PCC Meeting – Monday 10th January 2022 7.30pm in church

Arthur and Barbara – further update from Antwerp

From

Barbara……. These are a few pics of me at a function

we had to do and also with Belgium

cartoon characters.

I felt privileged to have my photo taken

with Captain Jan, who is an old friend from

Africa Mercy days in England. There is

more cabin preparation and cleaning than

before as there is more turnover of crew

and functions as they happen, and yes we

have to be in uniform! Tours to new crew are given by my

dept. explaining where everything is.

On top of this we are COVID tested every 2 weeks, both of us have been negative.

Barbara x

Arthur and Barbara Francis have now been in Belgium for nearly two

months. Here is their latest news…… they both seem to be kept very

busy! Please continue to pray for them both.

And from Arthur… Hi David and church family,

I’m sending a few more pictures of our work in the port of Antwerp. For the last

few weeks in between the breakdown stuff I have been inspecting, maintaining and

cleaning the 5 lifts that go between level 1 (engine room) and level 11 (the outside

space), and one special hospital lift that goes between level 3 and 4, 3 being the

operating rooms and 4 the ward areas. Of course there were 2 of us, Lucas a

young guy from Switzerland who was fun to work with.

Last week and this week I have the job of inspecting the 5 + 6

crew cabins distribution boards which had a dangerous fault,

as the earth wire was not connected on the board of the first

two we opened. There are about 10 on each level and I have

only completed 2 on one level.

And then to top all that the deck crew reported smoke coming from the crane inside.

On inspection the main drive and slip rings had slipped due to a loose holding bolt. So

me and two others had the task of removing the slip rings from the motor and inspect

the engineering work shop, which took yesterday afternoon and the rest of today. I also take turns with two others to do duty rotor, of which I am today on duty.

Still loving every minute of every day. I feel so blessed. As before we are tired at the

end of the day but not wiped out.

Please pray for the whole ship that all the problems can be solved so to serve the

poor and needy of Africa.

We learned today of the virulent variant Covid strain now starting to spread from

South Africa to Egypt called Omicron.

Thank you church for praying for us in continued good health

It's not all ship work, on Armistice Thursday the 11th we went to Ypres for the

service. It was very emotional especially when the last post sounded and poppies came

down.

Later we visited the Commonwealth War Grave which was also very emotional.

Blessings to our church family.

Arthur xxx

Christmas cards – as in previous (pre-covid) years we’re asking you not to leave cards in church for

individuals but to leave one card to the whole church family on the poster at the back of church and leave

a financial donation to The Archer Project in the bowl.

Because of lockdown and the lack of fundraising events their donations are down over 50% this year.

This year St. Saviour’s Food Bank is joining with

other local groups to offer Christmas Hampers

to families in our area. These will be made up in

the church on 14th December (delivered on

15th). We’ve had plenty of donations of food etc

but what we need are volunteers!

If you can offer a couple of hours (or

more) on Tuesday from 10.00am please

come to the Church where you’ll be very

welcome. We’re not involved in the distribution but if you have

transport and can offer help with the deliveries please e-

mail warden@stsaviours.info and we can pass it on.

World War Two Memorial

Safeguarding Reminder from Pat Webster It’s that time of year again lovely people when we bring the subject of safeguarding to the forefront.

I know I am safeguarding officer, but, (there’s always a but isn’t there?) it is not just me looking out for any

signs of abuse and neglect. I know we are a small church where everyone knows each other and new

people stick out like, well new people!

We do need to remain vigilant and know what to look for.

The opening paragraph from the diocesan hand book states

“The Church of England is called to share the good news of God’s salvation through Jesus Christ. The life of our

communities and institutions is integral to how we address this task. The good news speaks of welcome for all, with a particular regard for those who are most vulnerable, into a community where the value and dignity of every

human being is affirmed and those in positions of responsibility and authority are truly trustworthy. Being faithful to

our call to share the gospel therefore compels us to take with the utmost seriousness the challenge of preventing

abuse from happening and responding well where it has “.

The abuse of Children and young people can take many forms. They have the same right to protection

regardless of age, disability race religion or belief, sex or gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Children and young people and those with disabilities (physical, sensory and /or learning difficulties are

especially vulnerable) and need special care and protection

All adults, including vulnerable adults have a fundamental right to choose how and with whom they live

even if this appears to involve a degree of risk. They should be supported to make those choices to live as

independently as possible and treated with respect and dignity.

Like all churches we take this seriously and we seek to have all involved in the church leadership to have

the appropriate level of training but if anyone has any concerns about safeguarding issues or would like to

know more please speak to me as the church safeguarding officer.

Please see the request below from Ted for your comments. The replica is on the wall at the back of church adjacent to the vestry. The attached image is one of the options referred to by Ted. Our thanks to Ted for his dedication to research and honour those fallen in WW2 with a visible memorial.

I have long been aware that, although the names of our WW2 fallen

are recorded in the Roll of Honour, we never got round to

organising a visible memorial, as our forebears did for the WW1

fallen. I have therefore proposed to the PCC & it was accepted that

we should provide one. I have put together a full size copy of the

list, which is displayed in its suggested position in the memorial

corner. The plaque could be in grey marble with black lettering as

the WW1 memorial or in black polished granite with white or gold

lettering.

Before we apply for a faculty to install it, we would be pleased to

have any comments regarding the size, format and position of the

proposed plaque.

Ted Bellamy