WHAT’S ON IN MARCH Sunday 1st 1st Sunday of Lent #LiveLent Parade Service. SMwSA. 10.00am. With Traidcraft stalls Monday 2nd Child-friendly Lent Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 10.15-11.15am. For adults with pre-schoolers who can enjoy supervised play while their parents/carers take part in this 5-week Lent course. Also on the 9th, 16th , 23rd and 30th Tuesday 3rd Memory Café. SPSP. 1.30-3.00pm Vicar’s Viewpoint Wednesday 4th 5-week Lent Course: Care for God’s Creation. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 10.30am- The Church of St Peter and St Paul 12noon. Continuing the 11th, 18th and 25th sits at the heart of our community There will be no First Wednesday Meeting this month on the crossroads of our busiest March 2020 th th th, th Thursday 5 Traherne Reading Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 1.15-2.30pm (& 12 , 19 26 ) streets. Its future is therefore of REGULAR SERVICES Service of Wholeness & Healing. SMwSA. 8.00pm interest to everyone. As some Sunday 8th 2nd Sunday of Lent important developments are afoot, St Mary with St Alban (SMwSA) Final Service: A People on the Move. St Peter & St Paul. 9.45am I’d like to clarify what is changing SUNDAYS Teddington Church Singers & Teddington Consort Concert: Mozart’s Great and what is remaining the same. 8.00am Holy Communion Mass in C minor. All Hallows Church, Twickenham. 7.30pm What is changing is that on th th th th 9.00am Morning Worship Tuesday 10 Alpha Course. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm. Also on the 17 and 24 Sunday March 8 the regular congregation, being Plain & Pearl Social Knitting & Craft Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm relatively small in number, will be worshipping for 10.00am Parish Communion Thursday 12th Parish Pub Lunch. Teddington Arms. 12.30pm. Please join us the last time in the church before merging with the WEDNESDAYS th congregation at St Mary with St Alban. After March Saturday 14 Admission to Communion Preparation Course. SMwSA. 4.00-5.00pm. A 3- th 9.00am Morning Prayer th st th 8 there will no longer be a Sunday morning service sesssion course: 14 , 21 & 28 March 9.30am Holy Communion Sunday 15th 3rd Sunday of Lent. Coming Together Service. SMwSA. 10.00am until such time as a new worshipping community is th formed. 10.30am Church Mice Wednesday 18 SMwSA PCC Meeting. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.45pm Sunday 23rd Mothering Sunday. All-age Communion Service. SMwSA. 10.00am What is not changing is that the building will remain St Peter and St Paul (SPSP) Tuesday 24th Parish Pub Coffee. The Anglers. 10.30am a church and there will still be a regular weekday th service and some Sunday evening worship. The SUNDAYS (until March 8 ) Plain & Pearl Social Knitting & Craft Group: lino cuts and printing. St Mary’s 9.45am Family Communion Parish Hall. 7.30pm adjacent hall will still be available to all the th organisations and community groups that currently THURSDAYS Sunday 29 Lent Lunch for Welcare. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 11.45am use it. The vicarage in Bychurch End will still be used 9.00am Morning Prayer LOOKING AHEAD TO APRIL for clergy housing and we (the congregations from Saturday 4th Parish Pilgrimage to Winchester Cathedral both churches) remain committed to using all our buildings for our core purpose of ‘growing faith and All events can be found on our website: www.teddingtonparish.org/whats-on friendship’. St Peter and St Paul will continue to be a consecrated church, open to all and looked after by the Church of England in the service of everyone in Mozart Mass in Parish Contacts our community. C Minor What is exciting is that we have plans to start a SMwSA Office Suzanne Parker [email protected] Community Café in St Peter and St Paul in the Administration & St Mary’s Parish Hall, Langham 020 8943 2262 church, not the hall, on Monday afternoons, Teddington Churches’ Hall Bookings: Road, Teddington TW11 9HF beginning in May. More details will follow next Singers & Orchestra

month. We also have plans for a new Sports Ministry SPSP Office Emma Castellani [email protected] starting in September which may well be based there th Administration & Bychurch End, Teddington 020 8977 3330 as well. I personally look forward to the merger of Sunday March 8 , Hall Bookings: TW11 8PS the congregations which I believe will be of benefit 7.30pm to both. There will be a special ‘Coming Together Vicar: Rev Joe Moffatt [email protected] th 020 8977 2767 Service’ on March 15 at St Mary with St Alban. All Hallows Church, The story of St Peter and St Paul is by no means Curate: Rev Caroline Halmshaw [email protected] finished. It is merely moving into a new phase. To Twickenham 07483 310330 mark the transition, the service on March 8th will be entitled ‘A People on the Move’ and we’d be Tickets £15 (U16’s free) Newsletter Julien Cozens, Penny Jones [email protected] via Eventbrite (search Editors: and Sue Stevens 020 8943 2262 delighted to see anyone with a connection to the church as we share stories and pray for the next ‘Teddington Churches’) Social Media: Teddington Parish @TW11Parish stage of the journey. or on the door or @smwsachurch Best wishes

www.teddingtonparish.org www.teddingtonparish.org Lent Appeal – School has made a terrific start and at a recent climate change. Each chapter ends with assembly I was presented with a cheque extremely helpful suggestions of how we Parish Registers rebuilding in Mozambique for £5,000. Some of this came from might change habits and attitudes. This time last year I visited our link parish donations made by parents and visitors at If you would like to explore this theme FUNERALS – We remember with thanks- the Harvest and Christmas events, but an giving the life of: of Pemba in the far north of Mozambique. with others, we are offering a Lent Course rd One of the highlights of my trip was incredible £3,026 was raised by Year 6 (see on Wednesday mornings which will be 23 December: Barbara Ann Morrell (71) visiting the only Anglican church school in Year Six Grow a Pound on next page). based on these resources. Each session 12th February: Karyn Anne Broek (44) the region. This was a primary school in a Our Lent Appeal this year will aim to will be based on a chapter of the book, remote village called Chimoio. Much like double the SMSP total, raising another but you won’t need to read the book to church was filled to overflowing with our own school (St Mary’s and St Peter’s) it £5,000. We hope that the rest of the participate. The course will be led by representatives from all over Teddington; had 700 children, but in most other money needed will come from grants. If myself, Caroline Halmshaw and Sarah from both churches, Brownies, St. Mary’s respects it was very different. It had only you would like to donate, please Williams and will run for five sessions and St. Peter’s school, menU and many had 7 teachers and 3 classrooms, so the contribute by: from March 4th to April 1st, 10.30am- more. children were split between morning and  Cash or cheque (to ‘PCC of St Mary 12noon in the Mina Hogan Room, St afternoon classes. They were very proud of with St Alban’) in a yellow gift-aid Mary’s Parish Hall. Please let us know the three classrooms which had been envelope that can be found in church, whether you wish to participate by signing newly built, since before then the lessons writing LENT APPEAL on the envelope. the sheet at the back of church or were all taught under a tree. contacting the parish office.  Bank transfer to Account name: PCC St A month after my trip, Cyclone Kenneth Mary with St Alban; Sort code: 40-52- A full report of Ruth Valerio’s Supper Talk hit the region causing massive wind 40; Account number: 00032911; by Peter and Sue Stevens can be found on damage and flooding. The walls of the Reference LENT APPEAL. Joe Moffatt our website. Joe Moffatt new school building were swept away in the floods, leaving a twisted roof. The villagers were greatly affected, losing #LiveLent: Care Year 6 Grow a Pound Raises homes and harvests. Thankfully, church £3,026 workers provided emergency food and for God’s people have been rebuilding their homes. Creation How did ‘Grow a Pound’ come about? The school has reopened but they are Joe visited Mozambique and the first time This is the Church of he went out the children had a school. A having to function without buildings, England’s Lent Azariah and his family brought so many working once again with lessons under the few weeks later, however, there was a gifts to our town; their love of music to Campaign for 2020. It cyclone which was so strong that it tree. comes with booklets name but one. Suitably, there was a high destroyed everything. Joe asked the level of music throughout the service with Now the local church would like to rebuild for both adults and children in Year 6 at St Mary’s and St the school. This will cost something in the children, which we Peter’s School to raise some money to Kelly Haines (Head of Music at St. Mary’s region of £20,000. St Mary’s and St Peter’s will be giving out on and St. Peter’s school) keeping spirits high Joe with Ruth Valerio at st rebuild the school. the recent Supper Talk March 1 , the first by organising a full congregation Sunday in Lent. How did ‘Grow a Pound’ work? We were rendition of a gospel round; a nod to These include daily readings and given one pound and were told to spend it on all we needed to raise the money. In Azariah’s ability to bring people together. reflections. There is also a free app for As has been the case throughout his those who prefer a digital version. my group, there were four boys. We all baked cakes and sold them at two tenure, his family were involved The theme is to ‘Care for Creation’. It is churches in Teddington - St Mary with St throughout the service and the light they commended by the Archbishops of Alban and the Baptist Church, as well as at have brought to us all was recognised in a Canterbury and York who invite us ‘to Teddington Rugby Club. Everyone was candle presentation to each of them. rebuild our relationship with our planet, extremely generous and we made £275 As the service closed and one by one the and with the God who is Lord of pounds. This felt amazing. We hope the everything.’ During this time, we hope you France-Williamses stepped down from the children can have a new school as soon as platform to process down the aisle, the might spend time praying, learning more possible. Freddie Harrison about the remarkable world we have been lights dimmed, adding to the emotion of given and building habits that last beyond the time which was clearly felt throughout the season to protect and honour the Celebrating Father Azariah’s the congregation as we saw the passing of earth.’ time in Teddington their time with us. In our hearts, however, The booklets have been based on an nd the light they have brought to us will excellent book entitled ‘Saying Yes to Life’ February 2 marked the end of our never dim and we are eternally grateful by Tearfund Director Ruth Valerio, who celebrations of Christ’s birth and also the and thankful that they were brought into was guest speaker at our last Supper Talk. end of our time with Azariah. At his final our lives. We hope and pray that the light Ruth takes the days of creation as service we celebrated his time with us and the incredible work he has done. of the Lord shines bright on them as they described in Genesis Chapter 1 and she start their new adventure in Manchester. gives fascinating examples of the intricate His unique character and dynamic abilities have helped bring our communities May their lives be happy and their hearts The school in Mozambique and the same building beauty of creation as well as sobering be full. Bryony Pemberton after the Cyclone stories about pollution and the effects of together in many ways, so, fittingly, the