WHAT’S ON IN FEBRUARY Sunday 2nd Candlemas Farewell Service for Fr. Azariah. SPSP. 9.45pm Christingle Service. SMwSA. 4.00pm Ashirah - I will Sing: Choral Workshop. Landmark Arts Centre. 10.30am- 4.30pm. Concert – 6.00pm Tuesday 4th Memory Café. SPSP. 1.30-3.00pm Alpha Course. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm Vicar’s Viewpoint th It was announced at the end of Wednesday 5 First Wednesday Meeting. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 12.45-2.15pm. Topic: Christian December that Rev Azariah Jewish Relations: A discussion based on the recent report of the C of E Faith & France-Williams, our Associate February 2020 Order Commission, God’s Unfailing Word. Bring your own packed lunch, and Priest, has been appointed to a friend. Tea and coffee provided REGULAR SERVICES th lead a new mission initiative in Thursday 6 Holy Communion Service. Fullerton Court. 11.30am the Diocese of Manchester in St Mary with St Alban (SMwSA) Service of Wholeness & Healing. SMwSA. 8.00pm partnership with a network set up Sunday 9th 4th Sunday before Lent SUNDAYS th by the large central London 8.00am Holy Communion Tuesday 11 Alpha Course. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Plain & Pearl Social Knitting & Craft Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm It is an exciting role, pioneering 9.00am Morning Worship Thursday 13th Parish Pub Lunch. Teddington Arms. 12.30pm. Please join us th rd new forms of worship and mission in a very diverse 10.00am Parish Communion Sunday 16 3 Sunday before Lent part of the city centre. We shall greatly miss him, Sunday 23rd 2nd Sunday before Lent WEDNESDAYS th having benefitted hugely from his creative, Tuesday 25 Parish Pub Coffee. The Anglers. 10.30am compassionate and engaging personality over the 9.00am Morning Prayer Alpha Course. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm past three and a half years. But we wish him well, 9.30am Holy Communion Plain & Pearl Social Knitting & Craft Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 7.30pm th along with his wife Anna and their three children 10.30am Church Mice Wednesday 26 Ash Wednesday: Holy Communion with Ashing. SMwSA. 9.30am Eliana, Micah and Rafael. Their last Sunday at St Sung Eucharist with Ashing. SMwSA. 8.00pm nd th Peter and St Paul will be February 2 , so please join St Peter and St Paul (SPSP) Thursday 27 Traherne Reading Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 1.15-2.45pm. Start of a new 6- us there for a big farewell at the 9.45am service. SUNDAYS (until Feb 9th) week series We have recently been reviewing the mission and 9.45am Family Communion LOOKING AHEAD TO MARCH worship at St Peter and St Paul. Some very positive nd THURSDAYS (continuing) Monday 2 Parent & Toddler Lent Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 10.00-11.30am (5-week initiatives are emerging, building on the success of course) the Memory Café, the Cinema Club and other 9.00am Morning Prayer Wednesday 4th Lent Group. St Mary’s Parish Hall. 10.30am-12noon (5-week course) activities that Azariah has pioneered. These include a Sunday 8th Mozart C Minor Mass Concert. All Hallows, Twickenham. 7.30pm new Community Café and a Sports Ministry. So the

All events can be found on our website: www.teddingtonparish.org/whats-on building will continue to be used throughout the week for new forms of outreach as well by our existing community groups. Worship will also continue but with a different pattern. Instead of Parish Contacts Sunday mornings, there will just be a monthly Sunday evening service and weekly Morning Prayer SMwSA Office Suzanne Parker [email protected] on Thursdays. This will allow the small Sunday Administration & St Mary’s Parish Hall, Langham 020 8943 2262 morning congregation to join in with the worship at Hall Bookings: Road, Teddington TW11 9HF St Mary with St Alban rather than struggle to SPSP Office Emma Castellani [email protected] maintain all the trappings of a regular parish church. Administration & Bychurch End, Teddington 020 8977 3330 In time, we envisage new services to emerge from Hall Bookings: TW11 8PS the outreach ministries that I’ve mentioned. To mark the end of the current pattern of Sunday Vicar: The Rev Joe Moffatt [email protected] morning worship, there will be a special service on 020 8977 2767 th February 9 at SPSP at 9.45am. This will include the Curate: Caroline Halmshaw [email protected] sharing of stories as we give thanks for the very 07483 310330 faithful witness of worshippers at SPSP over the years. It will also include the sharing of hopes as we Newsletter Julien Cozens, Penny Jones [email protected] pray for the merger of the congregations and the Editors: and Sue Stevens 020 8943 2262 future ministries that will unfold at SPSP. The end of one chapter is the beginning of another. Social Media: Teddington Parish @TW11Parish or @smwsachurch Best wishes

www.teddingtonparish.org www.teddingtonparish.org Teddington Churches’ Singers Parish Registers An Ode to Teddington Parish and the Saints concert on March 8th 2020 BAPTISMS – We welcome into Christ’s at Saint Peter and Paul Church Following on from our successful Church: by Azariah France-Williams performance of Messiah in April 2019, 4th January: Zoe Lily, daughter of Simon singers from Teddington churches and and Arabella Green From the solemnity of the Paschal beyond are coming together to sing 8th December: Harry Benjamin, son of Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor at All Triduum, Christopher and Alison Gent Hallows Church, Twickenham, on Sunday th To Taizé sung for ‘Kingdom Come’ th 15 December: Eleanor Daphne March 8 2020 at 7.30pm. The concert will Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver and Fiona Passion Portraits choral majesty, simple also include performances of two very Wyatt prose, popular choral items: Handel’s Zadok the Fires at Easter, to celebrate he arose. Priest and Allegri’s Miserere as well as FUNERALS – We remember with thanks- giving the lives of: Gabrieli’s atmospheric Sonata pian’ e forte th War and Peace, histories relived, for brass ensemble. 17 December: Amanda Kozlowski (56) 20th December: Josephine (Jo) Routs (81) Festivals of Light in a village that gives. The Great Mass in C minor (K427), th Mental health talks at supper, composed in Vienna between 1782 and 7 January: Keith Stones (66) th Memory Cafés, good cake, hot cuppa. 1783, is considered to be one of Mozart’s 16 January: David Gregory (81) greatest works. It clearly shows Mozart’s Palm Sunday processions, horses love for the music of the Baroque masters Room at the Inn Bach and Handel but the influence of As the buses passed by the Church in the masquerading as asses. Italian opera is very evident, particularly in early evening of Christmas Eve, passengers Confirmation and Admission to the solo arias. might have noticed a colourful glow from Communion Classes, behind the Church, where a new stable Many enthusiastic singers have signed up Chestnut Sunday vintage cars, some had been set up to host people who came applause, for this exciting event and, under the along to our overfull third crib service of excellent musical direction of Derek the evening. Teddington Village Fair, an assortment of Saunders, rehearsals are progressing well. For those with warm coats, it was a stalls. Teddington Churches’ Singers will be popular venue and we had a wonderful performing with four first-class Teddington Lights Up, pop-up gospel professional soloists and the Teddington choirs, Consort (leader – Janet Smith). These are some things, I have admired. The concert is being performed in aid of Bushy Park Runs, school runs, in a hurry, Child-Friendly Lent Group the amazing Momentum Children’s meeting the chaps for MenU, and Curry. Charity, started at Kingston Hospital in If you would like to come to a daytime Lent Group but have small children in tow, then 2004, which works locally to support Songs of Praise as Churches Together, families whose children have cancer or a this is the group for you! Elleray Hall Christmas carols, and dinner, life-challenging condition. Momentum Please bring your pre-schoolers along to supports the entire family – children, crowd of over fifty enthusiastic people of Christingle, Nativity, Carol and Crib, this group which will be held on five parents, siblings, grandparents – by all ages. It was a fun and authentic Exhausted from the rollercoaster , my Monday mornings in Lent, starting on offering practical and emotional help, trips experience as we sat on hay bales, talks became more ad-lib. Monday 2 March, in the Mina Hogan room wrapped up well and joined in heartily to in St Mary’s Parish Hall. We will start with and respite breaks as well as improving the service relayed from inside the church. the ward environment for children treated Then all agreed the services songs, after which the children will be Celebrating the Christmas message of supervised in their play while the adults in local hospitals. At any given time the peace and joy so that the outside world at Homemead, opened our have a chance to follow a Lent course charity supports 200 families of children can hear it and join in, is at the heart of eyes, to simple surprise tailored to people with small children. having treatment and 75 bereaved Christmas. We hope that as passers-by of Christ’s sparkle behind forgetful sighs. families. glimpsed the gathered crowd, it gave Led by Cathy Randall and other members of them the chance to remember the the Church Mice team, it will be relaxed, Tickets are on sale now. They cost £15 Sunday Eucharist has been true, informal and stimulating. message of Christmas. (free for under 16’s) and can be obtained Thanks to everyone who helped to launch I’ve learnt a great deal, during my time from EventBrite – search EVENTS: Dates: Every Monday in March this new venture. One person who took with you. Time: 10.15 to 11.15am Teddington Churches – or on the door part said that this was one of her favourite Small Church Big Soul, Place: Mina Hogan Room on the night. service experiences of the year. We look A faithful few, a nest from which it is time Kay Cassidy forward to providing more room at the inn Please contact Cathy for more details, we flew. or just turn up. 07712 598721 next Christmas Eve. Caroline Halmshaw