Sunday 29th
December
Collect
for Today
God
in Trinity,
eternal
unity of perfect love:
gather
the nations to be one family,
and
draw us into your holy life
through
the birth of Emmanuel,
our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen
Post
Communion Prayer
Heavenly
Father,
whose
blessed Son shared at Nazareth the life of an earthly home:
help
your Church to live as one family,
united
in love and obedience,
and
bring us all at last to our home in heaven;
through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Services
Today
St Andrew’s
9.00am Holy Communion/BCP
St
Cuthbert’s 10.30am Joint Service for 9.15 and 10.45 and
Methodist
Church
NOTICES
Ladies
Night Out:-
Mo and Carole wish you all a happy and peaceful New
Year, and look forward to meeting up again for Ladies Night Out at the Oadby
Grange Farm pub at 7pm on Wednesday 15th January 2020
For more information, or to book your place and ask
for a lift (if needed) contact:
Bible Reading Fellowship
Please could you look at the back of church for the Bible Reading
Fellowship reading notes starting in January.
There are 2 spare copies which anyone is very welcome to take home
to use free of charge. If you decide you would like to buy further copies then
please contact Christine Higgins Tel: 259 2624
Coffee
Morning with Isaac, Saturday 25th January 10:30 am at St Cuthbert’s.
As part of his journey, Isaac would like to share
some of the things he has been up to while he has been in the Community. He will
come and share some of his stories and show a few pictures of the work he has
done. Also as part of the time spent there he needs to raise a bit of money to
help the community keep going so there will be a box for donations if you would
like to give. There will also be a box for prayer requests if there is anything
specific the community can lift in prayer on your behalf. Hope you can join us!
Please
Pray for:
· Mollie Alexander
· Elizabeth Tacey
· Andrew and Mary Porter
· Christine Higgins
· Dave and Helen
· Graham Spencer
· Chris Hadley
·
Chris
Hollick
ALPHA
Course starting in January.
We will be running an Alpha course. This is a 10-week
course each evening starts with fellowship around a hot meal and then goes into
a talk about who God is and what the Christian faith is all about. It takes
time to delve into the big questions people ask and helps us
to discover new understanding. After the talk we will break up into smaller
groups with a group leader and discuss the questions the talk has raised in a
smaller setting.
If you are interested in either coming or helping in
this course please talk to Kim or Sarah about how to come or how to be involved.
Dear Church Family,
Charlie, Josiah, Isaac and I would like to wish you
all a Very Merry Christmas this year. I know that Christmas comes with many
mixed emotion both joyful and sad so we hope that your journey this Christmas
finds you knowing God’s amazing grace and his peace.
I want to add a personal thank you to all of you who
have journeyed with me this year. I have seen some ups and downs and you have
all been there to encourage me, pray for me and walk alongside me and I can’t
thank you enough for your support and I look forward to a fresh new start in
2020.
My hope and vision for 2020 is to see all of us
engaged in mission, to see God work in new ways in our community. To start
things off we want to run the Alpha course so I would ask you to think about
anyone you might like to invite or indeed be involved yourself. We are also
looking for those who would be willing to cook one of the meals (there are 10
sessions and the cost of the food will be reimbursed) and for those who would
like to be a small group leader.
We are also looking into the possibility of building
a ‘missional hub.’ The idea of that is to use it to bless the community. There
could be a hall for us to use for the Sunday school or maybe eventually a play
school. We would also love to have a church office, a prayer room and a coffee
area. If we get the permission for the land it could mean extra parking as
well. The heart behind this adventure would be to open our doors to the
community in a new way. A place to drop in and have a coffee, say a prayer,
rent the hall for different events and so much more. We want to see it as a
place to come and just be, to have a place to chat or sit quietly and pray with
people coming and going.
Also as Sarah has begun her curacy she has a lot of
different ideas that we can see reaching out to different aspects of our
village such as ‘forest school.’ And with Linda also we hope to develop new and
exciting opportunities for our children. If you would like to be a part of any
of these adventures please do talk to myself, Sarah or Linda.
Most of all my heart is to see God move in and
through us that we might see a difference in our lives and the lives of those
around us. As you go into this New Year, I hope you will take time to pray and
see how God might show you and how you can be a part of all he is doing.
May you know God’s peace this Christmas and his
blessings in the year to come.
With Love and Prayers for you all,
Kim
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