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Advent Carol Service By Candlelight – Sunday 27th November

Please join us for our first Christmas Service at

St Mary’s Church  (Nr Miller & Carter) on

Sunday 27th November – 6PM

We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful historic Church.

Community Christmas Carol Walk 2024

Please join us for carol singing and refreshments on our Community Christmas Carol Walk.

We will be meeting at St John's at 10am on Saturday 14th of December, then taking a gentle walk down to the Langdon Nature Discovery Visitor Centre where we will be singing a selection of traditional and well-loved Carols.

If you are driving to the Visitor Centre we should be there at around 10.30am.  Centre SAT NAV code is SS16 6EB

On our return to St John’s there will be a chance to warm up with a hot drink and mince pies.
A great event for family & friends, perfect for getting you into the Christmas spirit!
Please dress up warm (Christmas jumpers and hats definitely encouraged)
Looking forward to seeing you.

Community Hub – Saturdays from 1pm-3pm

Everybody is welcome to enjoy FREE warm snacks , refreshments and other treats at our Community Hub.

This will take place at St John's Church, Forest Glade  (Postcode SS16 6RX)

Every Saturday from 27th January - 1pm to 3pm  

Community Hub is a safe place to chat and meet other folks.

Why not join us as we gather together to enjoy warm food, great hospitality and meet new friends!

For further information, please contact Sally Butler at sallybutler66@icloud.com

 

Christmas Services 2022

Please do join us to celebrate Christmas. We have many services taking place at both St Mary's & St John's.

St Mary's ( Nr Miller and Carter)

Sunday 27th November at 6PM - Advent Carol Service by Candlelight

Sunday 18th December at 6:30PM - 9 Lessons and Carols

Christmas Eve - Christingle Services at 2PM & 4PM (also online), Midnight Communion at 11:30PM

St John's ( Forest Glade)

Sunday 18th December at 11AM - All Age Christmas Service

Christmas Eve - Christingle Service at 6PM **NEW**

Christmas Day - Family Service at 10:30AM

 

Wishing you and your families a very Happy Christmas and New Year

Memorial Service – 6th November 2022

Memorial Service St Mary’s Sunday 6th November at 3pm

An opportunity to remember loved ones.  Fill in a request card on arrival to have the name read out during the service.  If you are unable to be at the service, Memorial name cards for you to complete are available at both St Mary’s and St John’s together with an envelope for their collection.

MEMORIAL SERVICE 2022

Giving In Grace Update

GIVING IN GRACE UPDATE
Thank you so much for all your responses to our Giving in Grace stewardship campaign earlier in the year. It has taken a little while to accurately assess all of the responses and changes to giving, but in summary, there has been an overall increase in regular monthly giving (including Gift Aid) of £1062 per month, which equates to £12,744 per year!

We are very grateful to all who responded and for your generosity, which will help to enable all that we believe God is calling us to do here in the parish.

For further information about the responses, and information about how you can respond if you weren’t able to at the time of the campaign, please click on the attached link:
https://mcusercontent.com/d8d3610953c14ff13c8616290/files/4d019443-9eb0-8e00-42e4-e39db419dbc5/GiG_update_leaflet_September_2023.pdf

And God is able to bless you abundantly,so that in all things at all times, having all that you need,you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8

With love in Christ,

Revd Jeremy Noles
Rector

 

Electoral Roll

Electoral Roll 2021-2022

We are currently updating our Electoral Roll, if you are not currently on the electoral roll or would like to amend your entry on the electoral roll then please in the first instance email Nikki (Parish Administrator) stjohnsca@gmail.com

Good Friday Meditations

3 Meditations for Good Friday

In a normal year we open St Mary’s church for 3 hours between noon and 3pm, the hours when Jesus was on the cross. We offer a series of meditations followed by silence. We cannot open the church this year but below are links to 3 meditations for you to use in your own time, as you think upon Jesus death on the cross. Each meditation includes a bible reading followed by a reflection from Colin. (The length is indicated in brackets).

Jesus arrested: John 18: 1-27 (10 minutes)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au3–5UP8oAdgp1lMZu6k_qscgbTSQ?e=HAi0wE

Jesus before Pilate: Mark 15:1-15 (5 minutes)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au3–5UP8oAdgp1kqsCtCyFkKgjz-g?e=inO2gp

Jesus is dead: John 19:31-42 (6 minutes)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au3–5UP8oAdgp1j9aONvrQsyxrz9g?e=hyQQP9

Easter Services 2021

Easter Services 2021
Sadly, continued restrictions and safety concerns mean that we will not be opening our churches for public worship over Holy Week and Easter this year. However, we will be broadcasting live services on Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday. Good Friday meditations will also be available on the website. The live services will be available through our usual Facebook link
https://www.facebook.com/pg/stmaryslangdonhills/videos/?ref=page_internal

Maundy Thursday 1st April. 8pm Holy Communion (including the stripping of the altar).
Good Friday 2nd April. Recorded meditations available through our website.
Easter Sunday 4th April. 9am Holy Communion. (This will be Colin’s last service before retirement).

Lent 2021

Lent 2021 in Langdon Hills.
Due to the current restrictions we will not be able to offer our usual Ash Wednesday service this year, nor will we be able to run our Lent course in our usual way. However, we can offer a meditation for Ash Wednesday (see the link below) and the opportunity to join our online Lent course on Zoom (more details below).

Ash Wednesday meditation
Follow this link to hear Colin’s recorded meditation on “The seven deadly sins of the keen Christian”! The bible reference is Matthew 6:5-8; 19-21.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au3–5UP8oAdgbJki7SCnssHu-5ksw?e=MmiZAx

Lent course: “Let’s Talk About Race”

The death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement have brought the issue of race to the fore this year. I am very grateful to our own Paula Sofowora, who has adapted the “Let’s talk about race” course for our use. Please see the details below. Some of our existing small groups are already using this course. Paula and I are offering the opportunity to any who are not in existing groups to join us for an online Lent group using Zoom. We intend that the course will start during the week beginning 1st March.
If you would like to join us, please let me know by email to:
cchopkinson@aol.com

Please specify any times when you are not available. One of the few upsides of doing this course online during lockdown is that we can be flexible! So, we have deliberately not set a day or time in advance because we hope to set the day and time to suit the maximum number of participants. We can also be flexible about how many sessions we run to complete the material (see below).
The resources for the course will be emailed to participants.

PURPOSE

Racism and any form of discrimination is an affront to God and as Christians we must each play our part in eradicating all forms of racism and discrimination in our communities. This course aims to help us understand what the Bible says about race issues, and can be used as a practical check list for each of us to discuss and measure our own behaviour. Are we truly inclusive in our hearts and how we behave, at home, in the work place, church and society as a whole? Do we understand the meaning of Mark 12:30-31 ‘love your neighbour as yourself?’ ‘in our respective areas of influence?

COURSE CONTENT

There are 3 modules which may take 3 to 5 sessions depending upon the level of interaction and discussion.
1. Black and immigrant in the Bible
2. All one in Christ
3. Compassion and justice for all.
TARGET GROUP

Open to anyone.

Please read the resources prior to each session, consider incidents where you or someone that you love may have been discriminated against, reflect on the issues raised, how it made you feel and what if anything, you or they did about it.

Led by Paula Sofowora & Colin Hopkinson