Notices 27th January to 3rd February 2013

SUNDAY  4th  Sunday of Epiphany	27th	8.00 am 10.00 am   6.00 pm	Holy Communion Holy Communion with Seekers in the Upper Hall “Vine Time” Service in the Meeting Place
MONDAY	28th	12.30 pm   6.00 pm   7.00 pm	“Sunny Days” post natal support group with Julie Slingsby in MP Rainbows in the Upper Hall Focus Fellowship meeting in the Old Vestry
TUESDAY	29th	10.00 am 11.00 am     2.30 pm   6.15 pm   7.30 pm   7.30 pm	Holy Communion Service in the Meeting Place “Rattle & Roll”- Music for Under 5’s with Anne Connolly in the Old Vestry TLC in the Meeting Place – All welcome, please see Liz for details Brownies in the Upper Hall Centre Management  Group in the Old Vestry Guides in the Upper Hall
	30th	9.00 am 10.00 am 10.30 am   6.00 pm   7.00  pm     8.00 pm	Prayers in the Old Vestry “Peekaboo”  for babies, toddlers, parents & carers in the N & MP Care4You Team Meeting with Lynne Ashmore in the Old Vestry Yoga with Yolande Swift in the Upper Hall  Wednesday Home Group at Liz and Mike’s Please note: Home Group will start half an hour earlier tonight Tai Chi with Gary Shaw  in the Upper Hall
THURSDAY	31st	10.00 am   3 – 4 pm   6.30 pm	Weight Watchers in the Upper Hall St Paul’s Chairobics in the Meeting Place – new members welcome Weight Watchers in the Upper Hall
FRIDAY	1st	8.30 am  10.00am   2.00 pm           7.30 pm	“Best Price Jewellery & Antiques Valuations”  in the Old Vestry – all day M.U. Cathedral Coffee Morning  - helpers to arrive for 9.30 am please A new “Gentle Yoga and Relaxation” group with Ruth Robson in the Upper Hall today. Please see posters in church for more details. Worship Group Rehearsal in the Old Vestry
SUNDAY 2nd  Sunday before Lent -  Candlemas	3rd	8.00 am 10.00 am   6.00 pm	Holy Communion Morning Worship  at Candlemas with Seekers in the Upper Hall Focus Service in the Nave and Meeting Place – arrive 6 for 7.00 pm start

FEB – APR CHURCH ROTAS Copies are ready for collection at the back of church if you have chosen to receive a paper copy. For those church members receiving the notices electronically; please ensure you collect reading sheets for those dates when you have a reading duty. N.B. April’s reading sheets have not yet arrived so you will need to collect those as soon as we have a delivery. Thank you

COMING SOON – PANCAKE MESSY CHURCH!  The next Messy Church at St Pauls will be on Shrove Tuesday 12^th February from 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm, with Creative Worship, art and craft for children.  Food will be served at 6.15 pm; a contribution of £1 per person is invited to cover the cost of art materials and food. Please ring 0114 2551945 for more information or visit http://messychurchstpauls.blogspot.couk/

Donations of packet food for Heeley Food Bank are warmly welcomed. For your diary: Good Friday Messy Church will be held on 29^th March at 10.00 am to 12 noon and Pentecost Eve Messy Church will be on Saturday 18^th May from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm

LENT COURSE 2013 – ‘JESUS REDISCOVERED’ The Tuesday Derbyshire Lane Group will meet on 19^th & 26^th February, and also on 5^th, 12^th & possibly 19^th March for this year’s Lent Course. (19^th March may be subject to change as it’s a PCC night.) There is room at Margaret’s for two more people to join the group (on a first come basis.) If you’re interested, please leave a message for Margaret with Cathy, either in writing or by email.

FRIDAY YOGA We have a new group “Gentle Yoga & Relaxation” with Ruth Robson on Fridays from 2.00  - 3.00 pm. The 1^st class is free if you’d like to give it a try! Please phone 2680434. Please note: Yoga is in the Upper Hall on 1st February owing to prior booking.

M.U.  “A Meditation for Lent” will be led by Jacqui and the team at the next meeting of the M.U. at 2.15 pm on Wednesday 13th February.

FIRST WEDNESDAY GROUP will be at Jacqui’s house on 6^th February looking at part 2 of the DVD “Christianity in Roman Times.”

JESUS REDISCOVERED ON WEDNESDAYS!  We have some dates pencilled in for a Lent group to be held in church in the Meeting Place.  This will be using the Jesus Rediscovered material which Murray suggests groups use this year.  They are Wednesdays 20^th & 27^th February, 6th March (instead of 1^st Wednesday Group), then 13^th & 20^th March.  Jacqui will confirm these dates as soon as possible.

THANKSGIVING BOXES for weekly donations are now available for collection from the back of church. Please see Peter (Franklin) if you would like to know more about having a set of boxes.

LOST! A favourite black cap (men’s) has been lost by a Peekaboo Grandparent. (John Rocha brand) Please leave in the office if you’ve found it. Thank you

Prayer Focus: 

We continue to pray for all w3ho are ill at this time and for all carers .

Mike’s Ministry

Sun 27^th  – St Paul’s 10.00 am H.C.

                    Tapton Hill Congregational

Mon  28^th – Mundella Primary & Firs Hill Junior

Tues 29^th  – Handsworth Christian & Wooldale Junior

Wed 30^th – Carfield Primary & Totley All Saints

Thurs 31^st – Greasbrough Primary

Sun  3^rd – St Paul’s 8.00 am H.C. &

St Paul’s Candlemas Morning Worship at 10.00 am

From Murray 

I hope you are surviving the snow!  Just now, as I write, the sun has come out and the church looks beautiful from my window, still well draped with snow but glistening in the gentle light.  But it can be such a nuisance, I have just taken a short burial service earlier this morning and we had to tramp through quite deep snow to get to the grave.  Though I have to say the trees were beautifully coated in snow and looked a picture.  Even amidst the pain there is beauty to be seen.

I have been in touch with Helen Lawson who was not well enough to lead our service last Sunday.  She is clearly not yet sufficiently better to respond to my e-mail just yet, but I hope to find out soon when we can rearrange for her to come and share a bit more with us about the Foodbank.  In the meantime do please keep contributing food. Robert is kindly taking the food over to Gleadless Valley most weeks.