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This page was updated on Monday 30th January 2012
CHRISTIAN AID - URGENT - is anybody prepared to take over from Candy co-ordinating our collections? After twenty-one years Candy is retiring - please contact her on 754104 for
more details.
Church key-safe. The code number is now one digit higher than before. Please note Burglar Alarm number is not changed.
Please return your Palm Crosses to church to be burned for Ash Wednesday ash!
THANK YOU - Fergus Penfold says a very big thank you to everyone for their cards, gifts and for helping celebrate
his 18th Birthday last Sunday.
THIS WEEK
Sunday 29th January THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD - Candlemass.
Sunday 30th January Toddlers’ Club 1.30 p.m. in the Hall
Wednesday 1st February 8.00 a.m. Shared Morning Prayer at the Sir Robert Woodard Academy. Please report to the Main Reception (the North end that looks like a ship) at 7.45 am to sign in. This time, for a change, we shall eat first and pray afterwards! It would be useful for Reverend Wendy to have a rough idea of numbers. Please send her a message:
Sunday 5th February - Special Prayer will be said at both Eucharists for H.M.The Queen’s Jubilee.
Please pray this week for the General Synod, and especially its very important debate on Wednesday about Women Bishops.
Week beginning 5th Feb. No Eucharist on Monday, Tuesday or Friday. Wednesday as usual.
COMING SOON
Saturday 11th February DEANERY QUIET DAY led by Canon Beau Brandie at S.Michael’s S.Lancing, 9.30 am to 3.30 pm. See notice in porch and hand-bills.
Items needed! Does anyone have a baby bath and small plastic boats which could be borrowed please? Also we are looking for offcuts of balsa wood. Contact Pat Phillips 754595. Many thanks.
Friday 17th and Saturday 18th February Please note: No Eucharists.
Friday 17th February The Women’s World Day of Prayer local committee invite you all (includes men!) to Coffee
(10.30 a.m.) Bible Study (11 a.m.) and Lunch (12.30 p.m.) at Lancing Tabernacle. You are most welcome to any or all
of the above. Come to all that you can.... Judy Pullin 765157.
Saturday 18th February CRITICAL MASS - a celebration for young people at Lancing College Chapel. 10.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. See leaflet for more details. If you are interested please give your name to Tessa Kelly 873083.
Saturday 25th February Morning Melodies with Marcus Martin on keyboard & organ 11 a.m. to 12 noon at S.Mary the Virgin Church, East Preston. Admission free - donations towards EWA (Educating West Africa - making a difference in children’s lives).
Friday 2nd March WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER. Service in S.James’s at 10.30 a.m.Please note: Eucharist that day will be at 8.30 a.m.
Also College Singers Concert at Lancing College 7.30 p.m. - a Celebration for the Diamond Jubilee.
Tuesday 27th March BISHOP JOHN’S FAREWELL VISIT to the Deaneries of Worthing and Arundel/Bognor. 7.00 or 7.30 pm (to be confirmed) at S.Mary’s Littlehampton. Book the date.
Walsingham 2012 We have booked 16 places from Monday 17th to Friday 21st September. List for booking in porch very soon.
OTHER ITEMS
LENT COURSE 2012 Handing on the Torch. Christianity is the largest movement our world has ever seen. It continues to grow at an immense pace – especially in Asia (including China), Africa and Latin America. At the same time, Christianity in the West struggles to grow and – perhaps –even to survive. In this course we consider some of the reasons for this and what it might mean for individual Christians, for churches and for Western culture, in a world where alternative beliefs are increasingly on offer.
Leaders, Venues and Times, TODAY please. List at back of church.
LENT BOOK 2012 LOVE UNKNOWN by Sr Ruth Burrows, The Archbishop of Canterbury's 2012 Lent Book, £9.99. A copy is available to browse!
There is a seismic shift necessary from being religious to being a true disciple. Here is the contemplative's perspective. It is an abiding sorrow to the author that many faithful religious people, even regular church goers, understand so little of the great truths they so sincerely profess to believe, especially among young people. Unless a real love for Jesus is awakened in their hearts, unless they have been helped to see something of the sheer wonder and beauty of the contents of the faith in which they are instructed, how can they withstand the atheism of our materialistic society? Order your copy TODAY. List at back of church
LANCING
FRESH
CHURCH CLEANING 2012 - new rotas at the back of church - please take one.
THE CAKES SALE raised £30.30 in aid of USPG Anglicans in Mission. Thank you for your support.
WORTHING CHURCHES HOMELESS PROJECT - Third Sunday Appeal - we are asking specially for sugar and tea on Sunday 15th February. Thank you. List of January giving in porch.