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SUNDAY
Third
Sunday of Advent
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16th
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8.00 am
10.00
am
6.00
pm
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Holy
Communion
Holy
Communion with Seekers upstairs
St
Paul’s Carol Service with Carfield Community Choir
Please
note : No Vine Time Service this evening
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MONDAY
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17th
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10.30 am
12.30 pm
7.00 pm
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Care4You Team Meeting with Julie Thompson in the
Old Vestry
“Sunny Days” post natal support group with
Julie Slingsby in MP. Last
one before Christmas – resumes on 7th
January.
No Rainbows tonight - resumes on 14th
January
Focus Fellowship meeting in the Old Vestry – Last
Fellowship meeting this year.
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TUESDAY
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18th
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10.00
am
11.00 am
2.30 pm
6 for 6.30
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Holy Communion Service in the Meeting Place as usual (Meersbrook
Bank
School’s Rehearsal for this evening will now be held in school
owing
to staff shortages.)
“Rattle
& Roll”- New Music Group for Under 5’s in OV (to 12 noon)
TLC in the Meeting Place – the next meeting will be Tues 8th Jan
Meersbrook
Bank School Carol Service
No Brownies or Guides in the Upper Hall. Guides
resumes 8th Jan and Brownies the following week on 15th Jan.
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WEDNESDAY
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19th
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9.00 am
10.00 am
10.30 am
7.30
pm
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Prayers in the Old Vestry
Peekaboo
Christmas Party in the N, MP & Clergy Vestry – last
meeting
before Christmas. Many thanks to everyone who has helped
out
with refreshments during 2012.
Care4You
Team Meeting with Lynne Ashmore in the Old Vestry
No Yoga
with Yolande Swift in the Upper Hall
No
W.I. Craft & Chat tonight. W.I. resumes in January
Carol Singing at the Cross Scythes - please see over. All welcome!
Tai Chi with Gary Shaw resumes
on 9th Jan
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THURSDAY
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20th
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10.00
am
3 – 4 pm
6.30 pm
7.30 pm
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Weight
Watchers in the Upper Hall
St
Paul’s Chairobics in the Meeting Place – new members welcome
No
Chairobics on 27th Dec – resumes 3rd January
Weight
Watchers in the Upper Hall - Please note: Owing to the day
Christmas
falls this year, WW will not be closing for a break.
Prayer Group in the Old Vestry – all welcome,
see Gail for details.
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SUNDAY
Fourth Sunday of Advent
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23rd
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8.00 am
10.00 am
6 for 7 pm
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Holy
Communion
Holy
Communion
Focus Service – last service of the year.
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THIS WEEK - CAROLS AT THE CROSS SCYTHES
Tom and Sophie who now
run the Cross Scythes want us to take part in a carols evening in Wednesday 19th
December from 7.30 pm – you might have seen the advert in Active8! A friend of
mine has been doing evenings like this for a few years over at the Greystones
and this is where Tom and Sophie were before.
They want to make it a really nice evening with mulled wine and even some
free mince pies! They also want to do a raffle which will be split three
ways, they have a charity which they support and the other two parts will be
split between a charities that Mount View and we support. Murray
suggested that our part should go to the three organisations we support in Zimbabwe.
The pub would like us to bring bottles etc. for the raffle and they will
contribute some from the brewery. Richard Wilshaw from Mount View and Murray
will 'compere' the evening - perhaps
doing one slot each - with a gap in
between to refill our glasses. It will
probably end around 9.00 pm. Music will
be provided by members of our Worship Group and all singers will be welcome! This is a really important part of our
mission as a church to our local area.
FOOD BANK
We are still collecting food donations for the Food Bank based at Gleadless. There’s
a box at the back of church for food and thanks to all who’ve given.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES Please take leaflets for your family, friends &
neighbours – there are plenty on the table in the Meeting Place
CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL/FAYRE A huge thank
you to all who gave time and worked so hard to support this event or decorate a
tree for their group. To £600 has been raised for Talbot School & St
Paul’s.
NEXT QUARTER’S CHURCH ROTA If you have messages regarding absences or holidays
during the next quarter (Jan – Mar 2013) please put them in writing
– a note or email is fine. It’s also helpful if you’re involved with
any groups that meet here, if you can give Joan a list of next year’s meeting
dates again in writing – a note or email is fine please,
to save her having to count them all out for the new diary.
Thank you.
SHEILA AND DAVE GILL are
hoping to be with us again this evening if you missed seeing them last week.
NEWS OF OUR COMMUNITY
BISHOPS’ HOUSE On Sunday 16th December at 2 pm, the
Friends of Bishops’ House would be delighted to welcome you for their annual
sing-along of carols.
CRIME PREVENTION There is a copy of Crime Prevention Initiative
Magazine with safety tips, smart phone security, information on how to protect
your home etc. on the Meeting Place coffee table.
ZEST Please see the poster at the foot of the stairs
for “Zest” an NHS service for overweight children in Sheffield, providing
support, guidance and advice to families with children aged 7-15 years who are
above a healthy weight or phone 270 2040 to find out more.
Prayer Focus:
We continue to
pray for all who have been bereaved or are ill and those who care for
them
From Murray
I have
just got back from our Carol Service at Holmwood. As usual the dining room where we meet was
decked out for Christmas and I was all ready with the music and a good number
of Carol Sheets – but Konrad kept appearing with more and more people! In the end we had to get some more sheets
printed, and still more people came in!
I have never seen so many residents and a good number of relatives
too. There were about ten of us from St
Paul’s which was a great help. Konrad
had even organised a choir of residents who had been practicing the carols last
week! It was such a great occasion!
Next I
am looking forward to our own main Carol Service with Mike, Mark and Claire hopefully
performing a short sketch (we used it about six years ago, but it is well worth
seeing again!).
Then we
have carols at the Cross Scythes – a new venture I am really looking forward
to! What a great season of the year!
