Weekly Newsletter for the Anglican church community 27 November 2020

Wollaston, E Maudit, Bozeat & church community

Worship this Sunday - 29th Nov Readings for this Sunday

• online from 10am via youtube channel, facebook, websites (see overleaf for details) (Advent 1) WEBS Sunday service Isaiah 64.1-9 WEBS Traditional service 1 Corinthians 1.3-9 Way Maker November week 5 Mark 13.24-37

• Nigel’s Poems - If you have enjoyed hearing Nigel General information Clent read his poems during the online Sunday services, you can now buy a book of them (may be Sunday worship in our church as a Christmas present). Copies of “Jesus Loves buildings is now POSTPONED my Crushed Velvet Vest” are now available from due to the second lockdown Nigel at £6.00 per copy. A donation from each sale will be given to the work of the church at St Mary’s The following churches open for Wollaston. Give Nigel a call on 07931138820 or email on private prayer: [email protected] and reserve your copies now. Thank you. ST. MARY’S, WOLLASTON • A Big Ask for Christmas - UPDATE Wednesdays 10am-12pm THANK YOU WEBS BENEFICE – YOU ARE AMAZING - We set Fridays 10am - 12pm out to ask for 180 Christmas Selection Packs, one for each child who is assisted by the Daylight Centre Food Bank and the Hot Saturdays 11am-12:30pm Family Meals scheme. In the first week of asking, we almost got all we needed so we decided to extend the scheme to cover the Wollaston church community homeless of , some 50 people. Our BIG ASK only - WhatsApp - Matthew Beeby was for 230 selection packs - to date we have 226 ! You can has set up a WhatsApp group to try either donate money and we will buy the selection packs, or let and cover more immediate practical us have your selection pack and we will deliver these to the needs. If you want to be part of this Daylight Centre on 9th December 2020 for them to distribute in then simply text Matthews mobile time for Christmas. All donations can be given to 2 Manchester 07737148358. Road, Wollaston, or contact Jean & David Rose 01933 663778 for collection. A huge thank you to you all for responding to this Giving - if you would like to give appeal – the Centre just can’t believe it! regularly to support the work of the church please contact the individual • ALPHA Online - Normally, by this time each year, we church treasurer: would be coming to the end of another Alpha course, Wollaston - Diane Robinson: held either in Bozeat or Wollaston - but these are [email protected] strange times! If you have big questions about life or E Maudit - Anne Leathers: faith, Alpha Online is a wonderful opportunity to explore these [email protected] topics with a small group of people without having to leave the Bozeat - Sue Wagstaff: comfort of your own home! Each week, after a short talk there [email protected] will be an opportunity to hear what others think about the topic Strixton - Anne Hutchinson: for the evening and for you to have your say. [email protected] Alpha runs for ten thought-provoking weekly sessions, following an introduction to the course on Tuesday 5th January from New! St. Mary’s Bozeat & 7.30 - 8.30pm which will include some impressions from people Wollaston, who have recently completed Alpha. Youtube channel: There is no cost and no obligation, so why not join us for the https://www.youtube.com/channel/ introduction session before deciding whether Alpha is for you? UCiJR-fqRHF2J4mnccy4A9TQ For more information or for the Zoom link which will be sent to …………………………………………… you a week before the introduction evening, please contact:

Chris & Linda Brett 01933 665831 ([email protected]) Weekly Newsletter for the Anglican church community 27 November 2020

News from the Daylight Centre Autumn Prayer Initiative - theme for week beginning 29th in Wellingborough November The Daylight Centre are very Psalm 108:5 'Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory grateful for all your donations to the be over all the earth.' Food Bank. The food bank delivers parcels to those in need and also On praying to the Lord over our villages and schools I pictured His provides hot meals twice a week protection blanketing over us with rivers radiating out. My prayers for families. Thank you so much to extended out to asking for His covering to be over all our country and I everyone who gives us food to take pictured from above our islands covered in a glittering layer of His in to the Centre. shield. Further, I asked for all of the world to be covered in his protection Stocks are now running low on: and I had a picture of the earth being completely swaddled in a cloth of Small Tins of fish (sardines, tuna His embrace and Him holding the Earth close in his hands. etc.), Custard (packets, tins or boxes), Instant Whip Desserts, Heavenly Father 'maker of heaven and earth' Ps146:6 would you pour Packet Noodles and Spray out your love over our villages and towns, over our country, over our Deodorant for ladies and men, and world. May we feel your love guarding our hearts and minds, restore our there is always a need for Fruit souls, hold on to us and draw us into your embrace, for 'The Lord is my juice (not grapefruit), the smaller strength and my shield' Ps28:7. child-sized cartons of fruit juice, Biscuits, Mug Shots, Washing And Lord, this love you show us, may we share with others, especially Powder tabs, Microwaveable Rice, those in need. May we be there for others as you are for us 'who Cup-a-Soups, Fruit Squash, , Jelly comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any (in cubes or already made up in trouble' 2Co1:4. pots), Tinned rice pudding, Jam, Boxes of Breakfast Cereal, UHT Let us worhsip you with all our hearts from wherever we may be, He will Milk, Tinned fruit, Tinned spaghetti, hear us. 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of Tinned Potatoes, & Tinned his glory.' Isa6:3. vegetables. Please deliver direct to the Daylight Julie Mullett Centre food bank warehouse on Road Industrial Estate, 3 Bradfield Road, NN8 4NB between 9.30am and 11.30am, Monday to WllaHealhWellbeigG Friday. AiiiaiefSMa’ChchWlla

We can all do something to help save our planet each month there ill be a challenge for ou to do at home at ork or at Or to 2 Manchester Road, school Wollaston, or contact Jean & David Nebe’ Challege T f elecic ligh if ae i he turning the lights of hen oure not using Rose 01933 663778 for collection. them can help save mone b reducing our electricit bills etend the life of our light bulbs and bu bulbs less ofen Turning our lights of is essental hen ou go out of our room for a fe minutes Doing so can make our home more energ-efcient Or drop off to Chris & Linda Brett at H i hel I hel ae eeg It can also help reduce carbon emissions and other harmful greenhouse gases the vicarage in Bozeat. Hence turning of our lights is a simple a to help protect the environment and save the planet The advice for fuorescent lightng is if ou or others ill be out of a room for minutes or less leave it on If ou or others ill be out of a room for more than minutes turn it of The amount of energ used to reignite afer minutes is less than the benefts of being of for more than minutes Thank you very much for your help.

Contact details

Revd Adrian Morton 01933 664256, [email protected] Revd Dawn Airey 01604 660329, [email protected]) (new address - 20 Ribble Close, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 5XJ) Revd Gordon Chisnall 01933 674660, [email protected] Chris & Linda Brett 01933 665831, [email protected], [email protected] Jean Rose (Administrator) 01933 663778, [email protected]

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Prayer Chain - St. Mary’s, Wollaston runs a prayer chain where needs will be prayed for by a team of people. Use the confidential email, [email protected], to send in your requests.