SUNDAY Third Sunday in Advent | 11th | 8.00 am 10.00 am 1.30 pm 6 for 7 pm | Holy Communion Christingle Family Worship (No Seekers this week) Children’s Birthday Party in The Upper Hall (1.30 - 4.30 pm) Focus Service in the Nave & MP – last service this year, resumes 8th Jan 2012 |
MONDAY | 12th | 6.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Rainbows in The Upper Hall – Last meeting of 2011, resumes 9th Jan 2012 Focus Fellowship in The Old Vestry Zumba in The Upper Hall. Details from Amy 078 502 777 31 or 0114 2584799 |
TUESDAY | 13th | 10.00 am 2.30 pm 2.30 pm 6.30 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm | Holy Communion in The Meeting Place. Barbara will lead the third session of this year’s Advent Course, including Coffee and Fellowship T.L.C. – “Tea & Love for our Community” in The Meeting Place M.U. Advent Service at St Oswald’s, Bannerdale Road Meersbrook Bank School Carol Service in church (to arrive at 6.00 pm) (Please note: No Brownies, Guides or Local History this evening) Derbyshire Lane Home Group (Advent) in The Old Vestry Jenny & Dilesh’s Home Group |
WEDNESDAY | 14th | 9.00 am 10.00 am 10.30 am 6.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm 8.00 pm 7.30 pm | Prayers in The Old Vestry “Peekaboo” Christmas Party in The Nave and Meeting Place – last this year Care4You meeting in The Old Vestry (Vanda Hopwood) NO M.U. Meeting – see Tues 13th Dec Yoga with Yolande in The Upper Hall – last this year W.I.’s Christmas Party in The Old Vestry - last meeting of 2011 Provisional – Baptism Preparation in The Meeting Place Tai Chi with Gary in The Upper Hall Enid and Andy’s Home Group |
THURSDAY | 15th | 10.00 am 3.00 pm 6.30 pm 7.30 pm | Weight Watchers in The Upper Hall St Paul’s Chairobics in The Meeting Place. Come and give it a try! Weight Watchers in The Upper Hall (N.B. no meetings on Thurs 29th Dec only) Gail’s Prayer Group meeting in The Old Vestry |
FRIDAY | 16th | 12.30 pm 7.30 pm | CATHEDRAL ARCHER PROJECT Join us at Sheffield Cathedral for our annual Carol Service. As usual, there will be an opportunity to bring donations and gifts for the clients and there will be a space at the front of the Cathedral for you to leave them. Worship Group Rehearsal in The Meeting Place |
SATURDAY | 17th | 1-3.00 pm | Bishops’ House – Seasonal Music from The Beekeepers. Free – all children must be accompanied by an adult. Also Carol Singing on Sunday 18th from 2 - 4 pm |
SUNDAY Fourth Sunday in Advent | 18th | 8.00 am 10.00 am 6.00 pm | Holy Communion Holy Communion with Zimbabwe DVD & Seekers in The Upper Hall Carols by Candlelight |
ZIMBABWE DVD Next Sunday at 10 am we will see a 12 minute film of the work of Senior Citizen Service the organisation which Dave Gill has just taken over leading, Sheila will with us to answer any questions we might have. Sheila returns to Zimbabwe a few days later.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES & EVENTS 2011
Tues 13th Dec – Meersbrook Bank School Carol Service at 6.30 pm in church (No Brownies or Guides, & DLG now in OV. Please also note: The planned rehearsal for Monday is now cancelled.)
Sun 18th Dec - Carols by Candlelight at 6.00 pm
For adults & older children - with Carfield Community Choir. Followed by mulled wine and refreshments.
Sat 24th Dec - Christmas Eve Family Carol Service 6.00 pm. Our ever popular short carol service for younger children, families and everyone else who can find a seat!
Sat 24th - Christmas Eve Midnight Communion 11.30 pm A quiet service as Christmas Day begins.
Sun 25th - Christmas Day - Family Communion 10 am
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.
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. Thank you
CHRISTMAS CARDS are now in church and also catalogues for 3 charities. All profits to church projects.
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!
POPPY APPEAL This year we raised £26.43 for the British Legion.
FRUIT, JAM & CHUTNEY SALES now total £153.94 for the Fabric Fund. Thank you everyone!
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.
SHEFFIELD BACH SOCIETY is delighted to announce a special event for Christmas - ‘Come Sing Messiah!’ in Dore Parish Church on Mon 19th Dec with seasonal refreshments. Please see poster in MP.
Mike’s Ministry:
Sun 11th – St Paul’s 10.00 am FW (Christingle)
Tues 20th – Handsworth Christian School
Fri 16th – Lacewood Primary
Sun 18th – St Paul’s 8.00 am Holy Communion
& 10.00 am Family Communion
& Southey Elim Carol Service
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
Christmas is coming! The weather has turned cold and it all suddenly seems very close! I have my first Carol Service this evening (as I write) so it is all about to begin for me!!
We have just one week left to invite our friends to the evening Carol Service next Sunday – it is such a great service, so don’t miss it! It starts at 6.00 pm, we have the candles alight around the windowsills and after the service we will enjoy Christmassy refreshments and mulled wine as usual.
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. The layout department at the magazine used the colour scheme from our church website which Jana looks after for us. So if people look at our website they will see the connection with our 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.
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.
Finally, someone has asked about how much was given at our Gift Day. As Peter is away I do not have up to date figures but a few weeks ago at the PCC meeting the total was over £1,500 which is fantastic – with some more still to come in at that point. I am again humbled by the generosity of members of St Paul’s when the Gift Day was organised in such a hurry.
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