This week at St Mary s : For our Prayers Sunday Intercessions & Prayer Focus for each day this week

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1 This Week at St Mary s : Church Diary Monday - Saturday (except Bank Holidays): 8.30 am Morning Prayer & 5.30 pm Evening Prayer: Wed 26 th Nov am Holy Communion (Joined by the Mothers Union) Thurs 27 th Nov 6.30 am HCT Prayer Meeting (in Springfield Room, The Y Centre) 9.15 am Holy Communion (in the Church Centre) 7.00 pm Farlington Prep School Christingle Service Fri 28 th Nov am Little Footprints Toddler Group (in the Church Centre) am Holy Communion (at Horsham Hospital) 7.30 pm TGIF (Church Youth Club in the Church Centre) Sat 29 th Nov 9.00 am Holy Communion 9.30am Youth Bible Breakfast (in the Leslie Room) 7.30 pm Horsham Chamber Choir Concert SUNDAY 30 th Nov 8.00 am Holy Communion Advent Sunday 9.30 am Parish Communion (with The Lighthouse in the Church Centre) am Kairos (informal service for children and their families) 6.30 pm Advent Carol Service This week at St Mary s : For our Prayers Sunday Intercessions & Prayer Focus for each day this week In St Mary's is supporting in the wider world: The Condor Vision Trust (CVT) Peru; Mission Afrika in the Diocese of Bo, Sierra Leone; Church Mission Society (CMS). And in Sussex we are supporting: Diocesan Family Support Work (FSW); St Cuthman's Light Centre on the Whitehawk estate, Brighton; and the Horsham Churches Together Projects. At St. Mary s Our Caring as a Fellowship. In Sussex: For all who will receive food parcels from the Light Centre this week. We pray that they will be helped towards being able to meet their own long term needs for food and other essentials. In the wider world: For the development of trust, co-operation and friendship within the community served by the Light Centre. Special Daily Prayer Topics Monday Tuesday Our care for the suffering (visits in hospital & at home, healing prayer team) Our welcome ministry (sidemen, coffee team, office staff etc.) Wednesday Our ministry with the elderly (Almshouses, Nursing Home visits, Sunday lunch) Thursday Friday Saturday Our leaders in pastoral care (Clergy, Readers, Pastoral Visitors etc.) Our bereavement ministry (Funerals, visits, memorial book, Stepping Stones) Our church social life (fun events, coffee mornings, catering & social teams)

2 Welcome to St Mary s! Especially if this is your first visit we hope you will enjoy the service If you are new to us please pick up information about all that St. Mary s offers from the Welcome Table near the Church door. Members of the welcome team will of course be delighted to answer any questions you may have. Children & Young People are most welcome at THE LIGHTHOUSE, our lively Sunday Club which meets in the Church Centre, during the 9.30 services in termtime. If parents find they need it, the Lighthouse Crèche is also available for your use in the side chapel. We hope you will be able to stay after the 9.30 service, and join us for a cup of coffee. Please do introduce yourself to one of the clergy or a member of the welcome team, who would love the chance to get to know you better. To find out MUCH MORE about life at St. Mary s please visit (Or contact the Church Office on ) Today at St Mary s 8.00 am Holy Communion (Service Book p 199; Readings Eph 1.15-end; Mt end) 9.30 am Parish Communion (with The Lighthouse in the Church Centre) am Kairos (informal service for children & their families) 6.30 pm Evensong (Hymns from NEH 448, 366, 244; Ps 93; Readings 2 Sam , Mt end) Sunday 23 rd Nov 2014 Sunday Next Before Advent CHRIST THE KING Did You Know?... FACT (Families and Children Team) is a small group of volunteers who meet once a month to support, develop and help organise events and initiatives for families and children at St Mary's church.

3 St Mary s Church Family News THIS WEEK TODAY St Mary's Nursery Christmas Fayre Sunday November 23rd 2014 Straight after Kairos service pm in the Barn, Causeway. Raffle, Tombola, Toy stall, Sausages, Mince pies, Mulled wine, Santa's Grotto, Crafts. All welcome. TODAY Lighthouse November bookstall at the font today to give you some recommendations how your family celebrate Advent and Christmas. Buy Advent candles, books and stocking gifts, especially the Real Advent calendar: a traditional advent calendar with a high quality Traidcraft chocolate stars behind each of 24 windows, the 25th window contains a storybook of the First Christmas, 3.99(Cash and cheques). Tuesday 25th November 7pm: Mothers' Union meeting. The speaker is our own Helen Crooks who will be telling us about her work with disabled children and adults. The meeting will start promptly at 7pm with Helen's talk, as she needs to leave early. I will be giving notices at the end of the meeting. Thank you for your cooperation in this. Christine. Youth Bible Breakfast Sat 29 th November in the Leslie room at 9:30 am for year 8+. We will eat breakfast and discuss God-stuff :) Contact Julia Inglis-Taylor on for more info or to let me know you're coming so we have enough breakfast! SUNDAY 30 th November 6.30pm ADVENT CAROL SERVICE Do bring a friend to this beautiful & reflective service, that uses readings, hymns & choral music to introduce the Advent season of prayerful expectation of Christ s coming to His people. FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Light Centre, Whitehawk: The Light Centre is holding its Christmas Lunch on Thursday 11th December. Please donate items of food for the lunch. All items should be taken to the Church Office or church no later than Sunday 7 th December, ready to be delivered to the Light Centre on Monday 8 th December. A big THANK YOU to everyone who braved the rain to attend Little Footprints last Friday - together we raised 120 for Children in Need! Little Footprints is St Mary's Baby and Toddler group - we run on Fridays during term time am at the Barn ( 1.50 per family) - all pre-school children and their carers are very welcome! Stewardship Envelopes these have been bundled up in to street order and put at the back of church - please would you take a street and hand deliver the remaining envelopes to our church family? DEC Emergency Ebola Appeal - DEC member agencies are heavily involved in the response to this crisis. Those with the relevant specialist medical expertise, notably the Red Cross and Save the Children, have set up or are seeking to establish Ebola isolation and treatment centres. We are collecting via our emergency appeal envelopes available in the pews in church. Please give generously and pray for all those affected. Appeal closes 30 th Nov. Family Support Work Christmas Toy & Gifts collection: In November we are collecting toys and gifts to send to the local children and families that we support in Sussex. Please donate good quality items to the church office or pop them into the crate at the back of church.

4 St Mary's Christmas cards: We have two new designs with our selection of cards. These are on sale in packs of 10 for 3.50 at the back of the Church and in the Church Office. The proceeds will be shared equally between St Mary's Choir and St Mary's Church Fabric Fund. We hope you will support us as before, thank you. Contact Jo Benson. Phone: Message from Joyce Brown: Dear Friends, This year has been a difficult one for me, but with your prayers, love and practical support I have felt truly blessed. Thank you and God Bless, Joyce. A message from Jane Bowen: Thank-you to everyone at St. Mary's for their friendship, support and prayers over the years. Thank-you also for good wishes for my move. It has been stressful but I am here, surrounded by boxes. The people at St. Mary's Church, Conwy, were very friendly and welcoming at the Remembrance Sunday service. The parade and service at the memorial were very similar to those at Horsham. I miss Horsham, but if anyone finds themselves up this way please do drop in. You would be very welcome. Red Vinyl Kneelers for sale those in the pews at the back of church are available for a donation to church. Please speak to Jane Gorrie in church for more information. Autumn Talks on Christianity at Collyers: the series continues Dec 3rd 7-9pm at Collyer s in Hurst Road. For more information contact either David Arnold ( or dja1066@btinternet.com) or Paul Clarke ( or pfc@collyers.ac.uk). HCT Night Shelter (in St Mary s on Sunday nights): We want to put together a film library which will be available for our guests to watch at the night shelter. If you have any dvds (not videos please) that you would be willing to lend or donate to the night shelter, please pass to the Church Office. If you would like the dvds returned at the end of the night shelter please let the Church Office know. Many thanks, Denise Herrington. Sunday Lunches 2015: for information about the changes to the Sunday Lunches for 2015 please see the leaflets at the back of church or ask in the office. Coming soon at St Mary s Thursday 4 th Dec 10am-11.30am: The informal coffee morning is taking place again in the Church Centre. All are very welcome! Saturday 6 th December, 10am to 3.15pm: ST MARGARET S CHURCH WARNHAM, CHRISTMAS BAZAAR in Warnham Village Hall - Christmas gifts, produce, cakes, jewellery, bric-a-brac, books and much more besides. One of the highlights of the Bazaar is always the arrival of Father Christmas this year he will be visiting Warnham at 10.30am and again at 1pm. Throughout the day there will be children s activities including a chocolate tombola and a Lucky Dip as well as stalls selling toys and children s books. For further information please contact the organisers: Josephine Paterson (tel: ), Peter Swiss (tel: ). Tuesday 9th December 12.30for 1pm: Mothers Union Members Traditional Roast Turkey Christmas Lunch in the Barn. Tickets available from the church office, 8 to include a glass of wine. Wednesday 10 th December 10am: Thanksgiving Eucharist at St Mary s for the life of Bishop Colin Docker RIP, who was a much loved Bishop of Horsham. All are welcome.

5 The Friends Evenings of Swinging Jazz, Saturday 17 th January 2015 and 14 th March both at 7.45pm in the Church Centre. Tickets 14 in advance only, to include fish and chip supper available from the church office. A Pilgrimage to Greece 9th 18th May 2015 led by The Very Revd. Geoffrey Marshall, who has led trips to Jordan & Egypt and Israel with a number of people from St. Mary s. The Pilgrimage is run by McCabe Travel and is a journey through Greece with St. Paul on his 2nd and 3rd missionary journeys, visiting Thessaloniki, Philippi, the Meteora Monasteries, Delphi, Corinth, Athens and other places. The cost is 1,695 on a half board basis. Brochures are available from the Church office. If anyone decides to go, please give your name to the Church Office, because taxis might be able to be arranged to and from the airports.