SUNDAY SERVICES IN CHURCH 10:30am (unless otherwise stated)
22nd December (Third Sunday in Advent) Family Carols
24th December Christmas Eve 4.00pm Nine Lessons and Carols
25th December Christmas Day 10.00am Celebration with Communion
29th December Morning Worship
Please join us for refreshments after the 10:30am services
Christmas Services for St John’s Thornham, M24 2SA
Carols by Candlelight this evening 6.00pm
Mulled wine and mince pies from 5.30pm
Midnight Communion Christmas Eve 11.30pm
Brentwood Day Centre Christmas Buffet
115 Long Street, M24 6DL Especially for the homeless & those on the verge of homelessness on Monday 23 December 2024 from 10.00am to 3.00pm
All Welcome: please note – this is not just for the homeless – all are welcome.
Merry Christmas!!
GIVING AT ST LEONARD'S
Giving expresses our love for God and responds to God’s generosity to us. It is part of our worship week by week. There is a digital giving device at the back of church for card/contactless giving. Please use on your way in or out of church. It is simple to use, and a quick cost-effective method for us to collect your offertory giving. The offertory plate will continue to be passed in church, but if you are able, please use the digital device instead. You may also give online at: www.middletonparishchurch.org.uk or set up a Standing Order through the Church Office.
SAFEGUARDING
If you have any safeguarding concerns please contact our Parish Safeguarding Co-ordinators Ann Connell and Sarah Jennings. Safeguarding@middletonparishchurch.org.uk
PARENTS/GUARDIANS!
C of E Secondary Schools require ‘points’ to enable your child to attend that school. Regularly attending our God’s Squad helps to accumulate those points but to make sure sufficient weeks are covered there will be a registration sheet at the entrance of church every 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday. Please ensure your child is booked in.
Christmas and New Year Greetings
Christine and Colin wish everybody a very happy Christmas filled with the love, peace, joy and hope of Jesus Christ and may you know the abiding presence of the Lord throughout the coming year. Thank you for all your support and encouragement during the past year which makes our role and workload with its many responsibilities more manageable and productive.
Every blessing, The Churchwardens
Our Diocesan Prayer of Thanksgiving and Hope
Living and Loving God, as your pilgrim people in the Manchester Diocese, we thank you for the great commission with which you have entrusted us:
to love and serve, and to bring our parishes, schools, chaplaincies, and all our communities into new life in Jesus Christ.
Through your abundant love, lead us into your Kingdom and grant us the trust to follow you; meet our weariness, our griefs and fears, with your tender and comforting Spirit that we may greet the promise of each new day with joy and trust.
Teach us to pray in faith, hope and love, that we may go out into your world confident in your wondrous mission and full of the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
