Newsletter - 12-06
To our benefice friends,
A brief update for this edition of the newsletter. This week has been a busy one, with funerals for Roger Theobald, Hilary Allen and Sheila Potter taking place across the benefice. We continue to pray for Roger, Hilary and Sheila, along with their loved ones.
Please find upcoming services detailed below, including a breakdown of our Christmas schedule. We do hope to see many of you passing through our doors in the coming weeks as the Christmas programme continues.
Further details are available on the services page of our website.
In this edition
Ø Services
Ø Spirituality and Prayer
Services:
Sunday 8 December: Advent 2
1000 Holy Communion at St Peter’s, Fordcombe
1000 Matins at St Luke’s, Chiddingstone Causeway
Sunday 15 December: Advent 3
1000 Holy Communion at St John the Baptist, Penshurst
1800 Nine Lessons and Carols at St Luke’s, Chiddingstone Causeway
Tuesday 24th Christmas Eve
16.00 Family Carol Service at St Peter’s, Fordcombe
17.30 Carols by Candlelight St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone
22.00 United Benefice Christmas Night Holy Communion, St John’s
(Please note the earlier start)
Wednesday 25th Christmas Day
09.00 Said Holy Communion at St Peter’s, Fordcombe
10.30 Family Service at St John the Baptist, Penshurst
10.30 Morning Service at St Luke’s, Chiddingstone Causeway
Life Events:
In our prayers we hold those coming through our doors this month to mark their life events:
Weddings: We hold Jack and Celia, and Rebecca and Nicholas in our prayers ahead of their weddings in December.
Funerals: We hold Hilary Allen, Roger Theobald and Sheila Potter in our prayers, following their funerals this week.
And we remember those whose anniversary falls at this time of year, they shall be prayed for in church on Sunday.
Learning and growing:
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:
Ø 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
Spirituality and Prayer:
Ø Over the next couple of weeks St John’s in Penshurst will host a number of very simple prayer stations to mark the start of Advent. Please do try and visit and engage with them if you can and perhaps pray that they might prove helpful to our visitors too.
