Barcombe Church

Sunday 5th February
10am All Age Worship
11.15 Matins with Communion
7.30pm Quiet Meditation in St F
7-8.30 Deeper - Rectory.

Sunday 12th February
10am Holy Communion
6.30pm Evensong StF
(no Deeper)

Sunday 19th February
8am Holy Communion StF
10am Morning Worship
7.30pm Lively Worship StF
(no Deeper)

ASH Wednesday 22 Feb
7.30pm St Peter’s Chailey, Communion with the Imposition of Ashes, I’ll be preaching on Leviticus 8 so now you have two reasons to come. If you’d like a lift I’ve got space for 4.

If you would prefer, gluten free wafers are available at Holy Communion.
If you would like to pray with someone after the service, please go over to the prayer corner.

QUIET
We are going to cover uncharted ground,(for our church anyway) at the Quiet Service on Feb.5th. If you are curious, and open to an adventure in spirituality, come and see!

Magazines Read. Thank you for your magazines. They have been very well received and made ‘ waiting’ more enjoyable in various residential environments. I am happy to continue passing them on. R Williams.

Friday March 2nd. 10 am. Coming to Barcombe with a change of time from previous years! Women’s World Day of Prayer. This year in St.Mary’s followed by Soup lunch.

Lectern
Muriel Pyne, our splendid Keeper of the Lectern, who polishes it with great diligence and love, is out of action till March, and would greatly appreciate it if someone, or two, would clean the lectern in Feb. We are so blessed not to have to do this normally, and this is a way in which we can thank Muriel for all she does. Volunteers please! Please ring Gillian if you can help.

ST FRANCIS
The PCC are praying for clear direction, vision and purpose for St Francis. We would welcome your input. At the moment the feeling is that StF has a Presence in the Village and in that a purpose to serve the Community. But it cannot stay as it is. We’re going to do a focussed hour of prayer every day for two weeks. You’ll find details in March Magazine and also here: Praying in St Francis

Easter eggs
I’m going to do another order of ‘real easter eggs’ by a christian company that talk about Jesus on the box. They are £3.99 each, fair trade and great. Please contact me Sarah Lear, 400546, sarahlear@barcombe.net if you are interested. Thanks. Deadline 26th feb please.

CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED 22nd Jan onwards
I’m so keen for so many of you to do this that there’s a separate tab on the website, so go and look there. Paper permitting, I’ll try and print some off on the next notice sheet.

MORE HELP NEEDED!
I’m about to type up the Flower Rota for 2012, so now would be a good time to volunteer to go onto the list (or come off it!). I really could do with a couple more folks to help with the flowers, so that those on the list don’t have to do it more than a couple of times during the year. The PCC has kindly given us a Flower Fund for use during the year, so help towards the cost of flowers, particularly during the winter when there is nothing in the garden, is now available. My number is 01273400548 or email me asap on madeleine@simpson5.wanadoo.co.uk. Many thanks. PS now would also be a very good time to volunteer to join some of the other church rotas, especially the Church Cleaning Rota! I discovered that the organiser was planning to do the WHOLE of December 2011 herself in the absence of any other helpers!

See Barcombe News for more service details
See also www.barcombe.net/church for the latest

Money
Do you want to play your part in helping Saint Mary’s Barcombe to grow and be a shining light for our Lord in this Parish and beyond? The simple way is to sign up the with the Direct Giving Scheme. See the attached link: Bankers Order Form (12/2011) This way if you are a UK tax payer we can guarantee to boost your gift by 25% by reclaiming the Gift Aid Tax on your donation. This makes a big difference to us all and it saves you having to think about your donation each week. Your donation also helps the 12 Christian Charities that Saint Mary’s Church family support each year. I would like to encourage you to give generously.

Confirmation
Bishop Wallace is coming here to do his last Confirmation service (as Bishop of Lewes) Monday 18th June 7.30pm. IF you’d like to get confirmed talk to James.

FYG dates autumn term
FYG 2 (6-7.30) Supper (7-7.30) FYG 3 (7.15-9) Feb 3rd, 24th, March 9th, 23rd

Our Priorities-
We’ve started to talk about what we might do in the next five years, the kind of church and people that we want to be. Here are some headings but if you want a little more detail click the green bits below.
(i) Sharing our Faith
(ii) Faith for Younger People
(iii) Faith in Action
(iv) Increasing our Faith

STAMPS
Please remember when you receive all your letters to save your stamps and put them in the green bag hanging in the Link. Thank you all for your continuing support. Love Alison

Prayer Chain
A prayer chain has been organised to pray for any urgent prayer needs. If you would like to make use of this method of prayer support, please telephone your prayer requests through to Di East on 400148 and it will be prayed for by all those involved in the prayer chain. Confidentiality will be respected.

Bookings for St Francis and the Conker Room.
If you would like to hire these venues please call Eb Cottingham 400788

January 2012

2nd Feb Rota Supper C R 14 30 -22 00
A Wells ST F 20 15 -21 30
3rd Wedding ST M 13 00hrs
F Y G ST F 17 30 -21 00
6th Careafternoon ST F 13 45 -16 15
9th A Wells C R 20 15 -21 30
10th Adrian Hemmings C R 9 30 -16 30
16th Lunch Club ST F 9 30 -14 30
A Wells C R 20 15 -21 30
23rd A Wells C R 20 15 -21 30
24th F Y G ST F 17 30 -21 00
25th Chalice Training C R 9 30 -12 00

Dates as of 27 1 2012
Possible Yoga in C R Thursday evenings to be confirmed

We are often getting late bookings so please beware!