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| SUNDAY Fourth Sunday in Advent | 18th | 8.00 am 10.00 am 2 – 4 pm 6.00 pm | Holy Communion Holy Communion with Zimbabwe DVD – we will see a 12 minute film of the work of The Senior Citizen Service, the organisation which Dave has just taken over leading. Sheila will be with us to say a bit about the work. Sheila returns to Zimbabwe a few days later. Seekers in The Upper Hall Carol Singing at Bishops’ House. Children must be accompanied by an adult Carols by Candlelight - For adults & older children - with Carfield Community Choir, followed by mulled wine and refreshments. Focus Service resumes 8th January 2012 |
| MONDAY | 19th | 7.00 pm | No Rainbows or Zumba - both resume 9th January 2012 Focus Fellowship in The Old Vestry – last this year, resumes 9th January |
| TUESDAY | 20th | 10.00 am 2.30 pm 6.30 pm | Holy Communion in The Meeting Place. T.L.C. – “Tea & Love for our Community” in The Meeting Place Guides resumes 10th January CAROL SINGING at Overdale Care Home and locally. The Worship Group and Friends invite you to bring some festive cheer to both the residents of Overdale and our neighbours here in Norton Lees. Please meet at church at 6.30 pm |
| WEDNESDAY | 21st | 10.30 am 8.00 pm | No “Peekaboo” this morning – resumes Wednesday 4th January Care4You meeting in The Old Vestry (Vanda Hopwood) No Yoga with Yolande or W.I. tonight – both resume 4th January Tai Chi with Gary in The Upper Hall |
| THURSDAY | 22nd | 10.00 am 6.30 pm | Weight Watchers in The Upper Hall Chairobics - No meeting this afternoon or Thurs 29th - resumes 5th January Weight Watchers in The Upper Hall (N.B. no meetings on Thurs 29th Dec only) No Music Listening Group this evening – resumes 12th January |
| SATURDAY Christmas Eve | 24th | 6.00 pm 11.30 pm | Family Carols - Our ever popular short carol service for younger children, families and everyone else who can find a seat! A Midnight Holy Communion Service for Christmas Eve - a quiet service as Christmas Day begins |
| SUNDAY Christmas Day | 25th | 10.00 am | Family Communion for Christmas morning Please note: Our New Year’s Eve service will be on Saturday 31st December at 8.00 pm There will be No 8.00 am Holy Communion on Sunday 1st January. At 10 am on 1st January there will be a service of Holy Communion in The Meeting Place when we will reaffirm our Baptismal Vows as we begin the New Year together. |
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THANK YOU I have a break from chemo over Christmas so my appetite is better - just as well as our family at St. Paul's have been delivering meals and home baking to us.... casseroles, pies, stew, crumble.... Thank you for meeting our needs. We feel very blessed and humble. We wish you all the joy and peace of the season. (1 John 3 v 16 and 18 ). Enid (and Andy).
CONGRATULATIONS! You will be delighted to hear that Becky and Doug's baby arrived safely on Tuesday (13/12/11 - a wonderful date of birth to have). George Edward was born at 3.10 am weighing 6 lb 7 oz and may well be home from Tuesday afternoon. All the family are well and Doug has had a wonderful birthday present!
CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT ST PAUL’S This year we decided not to give out the Churches Together Christmas Cards but have advertised in Active8 instead – so make sure that your friends have seen the advert. It is a shame that we have had to stop the Churches Together Christmas Card. I thought it said a lot that our different churches could promote our Christmas Services in that way. The problem was that each church was finding it harder to distribute the cards so we decided to try a different way this year.
REMINDER - QUESTIONNAIRES Thank you to those who filled the blue questionnaires. Those we have had back have been very useful, but I think we have had less than 20 returned from nearly 70 that were given out. If you still have a questionnaire, please be sure to let me have it back by the end of December. The Strategy Group meet in January to look at the results and will take suggestions to the PCC in due course.
REMINDER - 2012 DIARY For heating purposes, billing etc., could all groups who hold their meetings at St Paul’s please give their 2012 meeting dates in writing (or by email) to Joan or John, or hand a note in at the office. It will also be helpful if you could let us know which dates you will not be meeting during the festive season. Thanks
DIOCESAN EVENT An eight week course on Tuesday evenings, called Foundations of Faith, is starting on 17th January at St Mary’s Bramall Lane. It will look at ‘Using the Bible’, ‘The History of the Church’, ‘Worship’ and ‘Ethics’. Please see Murray for more information.
TLC - TEA & LOVE FOR OUR COMMUNITY We are here on Tuesdays in the MP from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm. We can offer a lift if needed - contact Liz on 2557965 Please tell others about us even if you don’t need us!
ENID’S HOME GROUP The meeting on 28th December is cancelled. Meetings restart on 11th January; as before, they will be every 2nd & 4th Wednesday.
EPIPHANY MESSY CHURCH will be on Saturday 7th January from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm on, and don’t forget to put our Valentine’s Messy Church in your diary too! It’s on Saturday 11th February, also at 10.00 am. There will be art and craft activities, a short worship time and a light lunch. For more info, ring 2551945 or see Ann, Pete or Jana. We hope to see you there!
NEXT M.U. MEETING will be on January 11th. There will be a Committee Meeting and also a visiting speaker. New members always welcome – please see Jacqui.
COMMUNITY NEWS Please see our notice board at the bottom of the stairs, and the black folder in church, for more information
- The South Community Assembly is hosting a ‘Cabinet in the Community’ session on Thursday 5th January at 6.00 pm at Newfield Tenant’s Hall, Gleadless Rd.
- Activity Sheffield - Holiday Activities and multi-sports camps
- Activities at Newfield School for young people aged 8-16 Cheerleading, Street Dance, Blastoff Academy, Basketball, Multi-sports & 5-a-side football
- Safer Neighbourhoods newsletter for December from Inspector Ian Stubbs
Mike’s Ministry:
Sun 18th – St Paul’s 8.00 am Holy Communion
& Southey Elim Carol Service
Tues 20th – St Paul’s 10.00 am H.C.
Prayer Focus:
Edris, Sheila, Pete’s Dad, Peter, Barbara, Hazel, Robert, Sadie, Michael, Doug, Roger, Peter & Wendy, Murray & family, Enid and Andy, during Enid’s chemotherapy.
From Murray
I have now taken part in three Carol Services, so I feel well into Christmas! The service we held at St Paul’s for the area Scout Groups last week was excellent. I was helped in leading it by Maureen Food who is the Cub Leader at St Paul’s Scout Group and a Reader at St Mary’s Bramall Lane – she hit just the right note and the children really enjoyed the experience.
I know Lent seems a long way away yet, but after Christmas it will be on us very quickly! I was thinking of offering to lead a Questions! Questions! series on Wednesday evenings in the Meeting Place. Bishop Steven is urging us to run these sort of things as often as possible so I thought it would be good to share in it together so that we can encourage others to join in other Questions! Questions! series. I know some of you will have done it before, but it may be good to do it again with different people. I always get a lot out of leading the series and think we should be able to fit most of it into five weeks – let me know what you think!
