Notices 14th to 21st April 2013

SUNDAY Third  Sunday of Easter	14th	8.00 am 10.00 am   6.00 pm	Holy Communion Holy Communion (No Seekers this week – School Holidays) Spring Memorial Service - A service to remember and commemorate the lives of family and friends who have died. There will also be an opportunity for you to light candles in memory of the people you have come to remember. (Please note: Focus Service is cancelled – the next service is on the 28th April)
MONDAY	15th	12.30 pm   6.00 pm   7.00 pm	“Sunny Days” post natal support group with Julie Slingsby in the  Meeting Place Rainbows resumes this evening  in the Upper Hall Focus Fellowship meeting in the Old Vestry
TUESDAY	16th	10.00 am 11.00 am   2.30 pm   6.15 pm   7.30 pm   7.30 pm	Holy Communion followed by Coffee and Fellowship  in the Meeting Place “Rattle & Roll”- Music for Under 5’s resumes today in the Old Vestry TLC in the Meeting Place– all welcome Brownies  resumes tonight in the Upper Hall Guides resumes  tonight in the Upper Hall Centre Management Group in the Old Vestry
WEDNESDAY	17th	9.00 am 10.00 am 10.30 am   2.30 pm   6.00 pm   7.30 pm   7.30 pm   8.00 pm	Prayers in the Old Vestry “Peekaboo”  for babies, toddlers, parents & carers - resumes today in the nave Care4You Team Meeting with Lynne Ashmore in the Old Vestry Murray - meeting in the Meeting Place with Wedding Blessing couple Yoga with Yolande Swift in the Upper Hall W.I. “Craft & Chat”  in the Old Vestry – new members always welcome Baptism Preparation in the Meeting Place Tai Chi with Gary Shaw  in the Upper Hall
THURSDAY	18th	10.00 am   3 – 4 pm   6.30 pm   7.30 pm   7.30 pm	Weight Watchers in the Upper Hall St Paul’s Chairobics in the Meeting Place – new members welcome Weight Watchers in the Upper Hall Thursday Prayer Group in the Old Vestry “Questions! Questions!” - tonight in the Meeting Place. Please see over for more information or see Murray if you think you might like to take part.
FRIDAY	19th	7.00 pm	Pie & Pea Supper in the Nave & Meeting Place with “A Taste of Dubai” from Murray. There will be steak, chicken & leek, or vegetarian pies available. Tickets are £5.00 each from Jacqui, Liz or Barbara (Hanson.)
SUNDAY Fourth Sunday of Easter	21st	8.00 am 10.00 am   6.00 pm	Holy Communion Family Worship (No Seekers this week) “Vine Time” service in the Meeting Place

CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 12-18 MAY 2013 ADVANCE NOTICE: Please keep this week free in your diaries! We collected £1355.60 last year from local house to house collections.  There will be fewer collectors this year but we hope to have a Christian Aid ‘Quiz Aid’, so watch this space.  Please think and pray about whether you can help. Contact Helen Franklin on 2554441 if you’d like more information. 

CHRISTIAN AID MAY DAY TREK: As part of our church’s support for Christian Aid week, there is an opportunity to participate in the Sheffield May Day Trek on Monday May 6th. This is a sponsored walk with options to walk 5, 10 or 15 miles, starting at Bolsterstone Village Hall. Please contact Peter Franklin for more details or if you are interested in joining the trek. Transport to and from Bolsterstone can be arranged if required.

NOTICES If you have items for the church notice sheet, please put them in writing or email them to the office by 10.00 am on Wednesday. Thank you

ST PAUL’S SPRING MEMORIAL SERVICE is tonight. If you have not given us any names to read out, still feel free to come &light a candle for someone to be remembered.

CHURCH DUTY ROTA Please let the office know as soon as possible of any holidays planned for the next quarter’s church rota. A written note to Ann will also be appreciated if you haven’t let Cathy know already. Thanks

CHURCH ELECTORAL ROLL This year, we have to completely redo our roll, so please fill in a form (they’re on a table in church) and return it to Murray or leave it in the office. To be on the roll, you will have to have been baptised and want to be a member of St Paul’s Church.

M.U. On 8^th May the Mothers’ Union will be having a talk about Rwanda. New members always welcome.

1^st WEDNESDAY GROUP will meet on 1^st May to watch Part 4 of the DVD “Christianity in Roman Times.”

THE ANNUAL CHURCH PAROCHIAL MEETING will be held on Sunday 28^th April at our 10.00 am service.  Nomination forms are now available at the back of church.

HOLMWOOD SERVICE - TUESDAY 14^th MAY AT 2 PM.  Murray has booked the next service with Holmwood.  Because of commitments in his and the home’s diary, it can’t be until May, but put it in your dairy now so that you can be there to share in our ministry to the home!

SHEAF SINGERS - THIS WEEK! The Sheaf Singers present “A Night in Vienna” on Sat 20^th April at 7.15 pm at the URC. Guest artists will be Meersbrook Light Orchestra, Gwen Knight – Soprano & Matthew Pitts – Accompanist. Tickets are £6.00 from all members and Olive Walker Tel  2692144, or see Ken in church. The event is in aid of this year’s chosen charity, Help for Heroes.  

SHEAF SINGERS CHRISTMAS CONCERT will be held on Saturday 30^th November maybe at St Paul’s! Watch this space!

SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS There’s a box at the back of church if you would like to donate to Active Kids 2013 again this year please. In previous years the appeal has provided some fantastic equipment for St Paul’s Beavers. More details to follow.

ROBERT’S NEWS OF THE FOOD BANK Following a very successful collection on 23^rd & 24^th March in Tesco, Robert reports that the value of food collected was £1,400 and the weight of food was 1 ton!!! There were also cash donations of £120 to buy extra food. Tesco will add 30% of the total collected. Considering the bad weather, this is an excellent result.  On this occasion, Andy and Robert from St Paul’s helped out. The next collection will hopefully be in June. Robert will provide more information at a later date, but once again, volunteers are needed, and we are still very grateful for your weekly donations at St Paul’s.

Please continue to save strong carrier bags and leave them with the donations of food by the bookcase.   

SCOUTS AGM Andrew Biglands would like to welcome supporters past & present to the AGM at the Scout Headquarters, Welby Place on Saturday 20^th April at 4 pm.

KNITTING WOOL REQUEST If anyone has spare balls of pure wool (not synthetics thanks) the W.I. would be most appreciative. It can be left in the Old Vestry for Sylvia to collect on Wednesday. The W.I. is supporting a project that Irene Seggar came up with, through her involvement with St Paul’s TLC. Amateur knitters are being asked to take up their needles to knit legwarmers for use in trampolining to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust’s funds. For more information visit www.supertramp.co.uk 

Prayer Focus:  We continue to pray for all who are ill and those who care for them

Mike’s Ministry

Sun 14^th – Hillsborough Tabernacle

Wed 17^th - Carfield Primary

Thurs 18^th - Porter Croft Primary, All Saints Primary (Totley)

Fri 19^th - Lacewood Primary

Fri 19^th - Sun 21^st   - C.M.A. - A.G.M. (Loughborough)

From Murray

We had a good few days last week down in Sevenoaks seeing my Aunt and catching up with some school friends of mine.  We had a bit of sun though as often is the case when we are away you had more sun up here and it was rather gloomy for most of the time down there.

 Anyway we enjoyed a very brief walk on the beach on the way to meet my friends – really only to say that we had done it, as the wind was bitter!  But when the sun was out I really enjoyed the views across fields, which were ploughed and ready for planting.  On the downs (chalk hills in south east) the ploughed fields have amazing shades of colour from dark brown where the soil is deep, to almost white where it is shallow and the chalk has come to the surface.  There was a great sense of spring just around the corner.  The trees were bare, but somehow shaded with colour where the leaf buds were just waiting for a little bit of warm to bring them on, and burst into leaf.