Newsletter - 09-20

To our benefice friends,

Request for help, please.  A working party will be taking place after church on Sunday 6th October, to tidy up the graveyard at St John the Baptist, Penshurst. This will take place after the service, around 11am, for an hour and a half.

Please bring gardening gloves, secateurs, shears, weeding tools, and hedge trimmers with extension (if electric).

Many thanks,

Karen and Matthew

In this edition

Ø  Services

Ø  Life Events

Ø  Learning and growing

Services:

Sunday 22 September

1000    Morning Prayer at St John the Baptist, Penshurst

1000    Holy Communion at St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone

1700    All Age Service at Fordcombe Village Hall

Sunday 29 September

1000    Holy Communion at St John the Baptist, Penshurst

To download a full copy of the September service plan, hymns and lections click here.

Life Events:

In our prayers we hold those coming through our doors this month to mark their life events:

Weddings: We hold Tiffany and Ralph in our prayers, following their recent wedding in Chiddingstone.

Christenings: We continue to pray for George and Olivia, following their baptisms earlier this month.

And we remember those whose anniversary falls at this time of year, they shall be prayed for in church on Sunday. 

Learning and growing:

Updates:

Ø  Don’t forget the new National Safeguarding Standards. There is a link to the new leaflet on our website, and you’ll see posters going up in our churches soon. And following the appointment of our new benefice Safeguarding Officer, Wendy Ellis, we now have a contact email established – please direct any safeguarding queries or issues to safeguarding@highwealdchurches.org.uk

Mailing

If you know anyone who would like to be added to our weekly mailing, do let us know (and similarly let us know if you’d like to come off, though we’d be sad to see you go). If you’d like to contribute to the work of the benefice, you can go to our parish giving page via the www.parishgiving.org.uk website (we’d be very grateful). Alternatively, you can always find it on our benefice website: https://www.highwealdchurches.org.uk/news