St Mary s : Church Diary Monday - Saturday (except Bank Holidays): 8.30 am Morning Prayer & 5.30 pm Evening Prayer Wed 5 th Sept 10.00 am Holy Communion Fri 7 th Sept 11.00 am Holy Communion (at Horsham Hospital) SUNDAY 9 th Sept 8.00 am Holy Communion 15 th Sunday 9.30 am Parish Communion (with the Lighthouse Children s Club) After Trinity 11.30 am Kairos (informal service for children and their families) PATRONAL (St Mary s Birthday Party Patronal Festival) FESTIVAL 6.30 pm Choral Evensong St Mary s : For our Prayers Sunday Intercessions & Prayer Focus for each day this week In 2018 St Mary's is supporting in the wider world: World Vision & Teach Beyond In the UK & Sussex we are supporting: YMCA / Worthing Churches Homeless Projects (WCHP) In Horsham we are supporting the Horsham Churches Together Projects; Anchor Counselling & Therapy. For more information on these organisations please see the Serving and Transforming the Community noticeboard at the back of church. At St. Mary s Our Serving & Transforming the Community Monday Tuesday Our ministry with schools (as pupils, parents, teachers, Governors etc.) Mission projects we support in Horsham (Horsham Matters, Y Centre etc.) Wednesday Our ministry with families (Marriage preparation, Parenting, Mothers Union) Thursday Mission projects we support in Sussex (Anchor Counselling and Therapy, the Bible Society, Diocesan Family Support Work etc.) Friday Together) Saturday Our town ministry (via Council/Civic links, Concerts, Horsham Churches Mission projects we support overseas (through World Vision, Christian Aid etc.)
2 nd Sept 14 th Sunday after Trinity 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. 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 www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk (or contact the Church Office on 01403 253762) Today at St Mary s 8.00 am Holy Communion (Reading James 1.17-end and Mark 7.1-8,14,15,21-23) 9.30 am Church Family Communion (no Lighthouse Children s Club) 11.30 am Matins 6.30 pm Informal Service (in the Barn, Church Centre)
St Mary s Church Family News This Week TODAY Sunday 2 nd Sept 8am Breakfast - all welcome in the Leslie room for free continental breakfast after the service. Next date is 7 th Oct. Monday 3 rd Sept 7.30-9pm - Monthly Parish Prayer Meeting at St Leonard s: We are encouraged to join with members of our 3 sister churches in Horsham Parish, in making this monthly prayer meeting a priority in our diaries. St Mary s Book Group : This summer we are reading Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo, a little boy s story of his trip to Heaven and back. We will meet to discuss on Wednesday 5 th September 7.30pm at The Vicarage. All welcome. Let the Church Office or Katherine (01403 243025, katherine.potter@kpbusinessdevelopment.com) if you would like to join. Bellringing: On Sat 8 th Sept in St Mary s 7 bellringing teams from around the South of England will be competing for the prestigious Essex Trophy. They will be judged by their skill in ringing. Good luck to Sussex who won last year. Horsham are providing refreshments. If anyone can help by providing a cake or assisting serving please contact Val Burgess 01403 268077. Ride and Stride 2018 8 September Ride and Stride is fast approaching; and not long ago, St Mary s received a grant of 10,000 from the Sussex Historic Churches Trust (SHCT), so it would be great to have a big turnout for this fun event There are lots of options, including: participating as a (sponsored) walker or rider; manning the church; or simply sponsoring one of our riders/walkers or those manning the church. Please do sign up on the sheets at the back of church and pick up the information leaflets there. It s a great cause, with any funds raised split equally between St Mary s and the SHCT. Riding or striding. This year, you can: join Simon for either a short tour of the participating churches in Horsham, or for the more active, a wider ranging route taking in Rusper, Slinfold, Itchingfield, Nuthurst, Partridge Green, Shipley, Coolhurst and Billingshurst; or make up your own route Sponsorship. As usual, Simon will be riding, and his sponsorship form is also at the back of the church. Others may also be riding/striding, so please look out for their forms too. Manning St Mary s. Volunteers are needed please to man the church on the day of the Ride and Stride event. There s a rota at the back of the church, split into one hour slots. Please try to find an hour to support this valuable endeavour and sign up with your name and a contact number on the sheet. The requirements are very straightforward - just logging riders/striders in and offering refreshments. For more information please contact Simon Briggs (07933 292337; simon.briggs1@lloydsbanking.com).
Coming soon Tapestry Group: we are on holiday now, restarting September 10th. Any enquires to Carol Stalley via the church office (H. 253762 or office@stmaryshorsham.org.uk). All welcome! Thursday 13 th Sept 10.30 am: The Informal coffee morning will take place in the church centre. These coffee mornings follow on from a simple Eucharist (in St Peter s Chapel in the church centre) at 10.00am to which all are welcome and are held on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays in the month. (Next date is 27 th Sept.) A seven week group for parents & carers of teenagers will be starting on Thursday September 27 th at 8pm. We will share experiences and explore the skills which help us connect with teenagers, improve communication, manage conflict, and build strong families. 9 cost, which includes a handbook to keep. For more information speak to Hennie Sleeman, Fiona Prentice or Lynne Keeble in church, or leave your contact details with the church office. The Riding Lights Theatre Company present Gospel Street at St Mary s Church on 29th September 2018 at 7.30pm For more information see: https://ridinglights.org/gospel-street/. Sat 29 th Sept 7.30pm in church: Gospel Street it s Good News always engaging and a joy to watch. (preview audience member); A fresh re-positioning of the gospel stories in up-to-date contexts (preview audience member). Four young evangelists two women, two men piece together the startling story of what happened when Jesus turned up on their street. Packed with dynamic storytelling and spectacular spoken word this is a modern day telling of the gospel stories. It s a wild ride through issues of life, death and miraculous street food. Tickets 10 (concessions 8) on sale via the church office and the website. Please would you help us advertise this put a poster/flyer up in your windows at home and in your cars? Flyers are available at the back of church. Accommodation is also requested for the 5 Riding Lights Actors for the night of 29 th Sept 2018: They will need to stay in individual rooms here in Horsham. If anyone is able to offer accommodation please let the church office know.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION Sat 8 th Sept 8.30am for 9am flight: You are invited to High Mass at the top of the British Airways i360 in Brighton. The flight takes place at 9:00 am and the church party will be offering their prayers for all the people of Brighton and Hove, and raising funds for their community projects. Booking can be made by emailing Anthony Murley at annunciation.temporary@gmail.com, or simply by making a payment of 15 to the following Paypal account annunciation.temporary@gmail.com. For details see http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2018/08/16/faith-heart-unique-prayer-serviceinside-city-icon/ Sat 15 th Sept 10am-4pm Quiet Day What s in a name? Led by: Revd Sandra Hall at the Dominican Missionary Sisters Convent, Gossops Green Lane, Crawley RH11 8BJ; Cost: 5 and bring your packed lunch, drinks will be provided. please book via Rev Sandra email: sandra.richard@tiscali.co.uk Sat 22 nd Sept 2pm-5pm Celtic Prayer Workshop at St Leonard s Church Led by Margaret Symonds. Please email or phone Margaret Symonds to book msymonds241@btinternet.com or 01403 273479. Dates for the 2018-2019 Night Shelter: The Night Shelter will run from 1 December 2018 until 15 March 2019. Volunteer recruitment will start in mid-september. Night Shelter Sunday is 7 October. Training will be in the first half of November. All enquiries via nightshelter@horsham-matters.org.uk St. Mary s Home and Small Groups: St. Mary s is a big congregation, and our Home Groups and other Small Groups are at the very heart of our life together. We hope that everyone who wants to get involved at St. Mary s will join a Home Group, since this is the best environment for growing friendships, studying our faith, and praying & caring for each other. in effect to be the Church in miniature. Our home groups, each made up of between 6 and 10 people, mostly meet on a weekly basis in term-time, at a wide variety of times & places around the town. Two even have a creche and take place from 9.30 am 10.30 am, with refreshments from 8.30 am. To join a St. Mary s Home Group please ask one of the clergy, or contact the Church Office. We can talk to you about the various groups and help you choose one that suits you. We look forward to getting to know you! Read the comments from some of our home groups members: Offers the next steps It s a safe group Space to study Opportunity to explore Get to know people really well Part of a community Support each other Safe place to ask stupid questions. Calling all Waitrose shoppers: St Mary's School HSA has been chosen as one of the three good causes by Horsham Waitrose this month (September) and needs your help. The HSA would hugely appreciate it if St Mary's shoppers could put their green tokens in the appropriate slot this month. The more tokens means this great cause gets more cash. Please tell your friends, family and neighbours as the HSA needs all the help it can get. A message from Sheila Pilkington: Cakes and Preserves - after over 25 years and due to a change in my circumstances, I have decided to discontinue making cakes and preserves on a regular basis and feel as we have a change when Guy and Jebs move on to Bath Abbey that would be a natural break. However, if anyone would like to take over then please let Alison know in the church office, should you decide to take over I will give you my full help and advice if required. Sheila.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TGIF is looking to recruit 2 volunteers to join the team to help run fun activities (baking/sports/craft etc) for young people aged 10-18. Great opportunity to share your life stories/hobbies with young people as well as teaching life skills. All volunteers are part of rota to fit their time commitments. Full training will be given. All applicants must complete compulsory DBS check & attend safeguarding training. Sunday 7 th Oct 3.30pm: Special Evensong at Chichester Cathedral in Celebration of the Cathedral/Parish Links Network. Refreshments will be served after the service in the South Transept. All are welcome please do let Chichester know if you are planning to attend by ringing them on 01243 782595 or email reception@chichestercathedral.org.uk Saturday 24 th Nov 7.45pm: St Mary s Jazz night (with fish and chip supper, in the barn) tickets are now on sale from the Church Office and Waterstones. Monday 26 th Nov: Travelling to Guy s licensing at Bath Abbey - we hope to book a coach and plan to leave at 1.30pm from Normandy for Bath Abbey; stopping at service station/cafés in Bath or similar for food; returning after the service (leaving Bath approx 10pm). If we can fill a 53 seater coach it will cost 12.50 each for the transport - the cost of the coach will be shared between those on board so this is a guide cost at this stage so will be dependent on numbers. Please book your coach seat via the church office or Frank King (01403 264647).