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Methodist Church<br />
Friday 4th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am - 10am<br />
The Power of Prayer. All welcome.<br />
Sunday 6th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 10.45am - 11.45am<br />
Morning Worship followed by refreshments. All welcome.<br />
Thursday 10th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 2.30pm -4pm<br />
Thursday Group school- room, ‘The Silent Killer’ a<br />
talk about carbon monoxide poisoning by Mr Ray<br />
Ewart. Refreshments served.<br />
Friday 11th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am - 10am<br />
The Power of Prayer. All welcome.<br />
Sunday 13th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 10.45am - 11.45am<br />
Morning Worship followed by refreshments. All welcome.<br />
Friday 18th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am - 10am<br />
The Power of Prayer. All welcome.<br />
Saturday 19th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am - 12noon<br />
Coffee Morning in aid of church funds.<br />
Cooked breakfast available also home made cakes.<br />
Saturday 19th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am- 12noon<br />
Christmas Fayre in aid of church funds.<br />
Sunday 20th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 10.45am - 11.45am<br />
Morning Worship followed by refreshments.<br />
Thursday 24th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 2.30pm - 4pm<br />
Thursday Group, School-room, talk by Mr Malcolm<br />
Reddington, husband of Rev. Eleanor Reddington.<br />
Refreshments served.<br />
Friday 25th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 9.30am - 10am<br />
Power of Prayer. All welcome.<br />
Sunday 27th <strong>Nov</strong>ember 10.45am - 11.45am<br />
Morning Worship followed by refreshments. All welcome.<br />
Dear friends,<br />
Some years ago a friend told us the story of how, when<br />
she was at university, she was caught in a downpour,<br />
and a fellow student with a car happened to be passing<br />
and offered her a lift. As our friend settled herself into<br />
the passenger seat the driver said “I do find all this<br />
trying to help others very demanding and exhausting”!<br />
You can imagine how our friend felt!<br />
Whilst we may smile at the story, it does raise the<br />
question of how we feel when we do someone else<br />
a good turn: sometimes we may do it grudgingly, and<br />
others we’re very pleased to help.<br />
It also raises a different question, what do we mean<br />
by generosity? This past couple of months we’ve been<br />
celebrating harvest festivals, and our churches and<br />
schools have collected gifts to be given to the foodbank<br />
– that’s one form of generosity. Then there are the gifts<br />
we put in a collecting tin, the donations to charity shops,<br />
the shoebox appeal, and our response to appeals for<br />
money by charities and other good causes. All of these<br />
donations are another form of generosity.<br />
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However, whilst it’s important for us to help others, all of<br />
these ways actually leave me asking the question “How<br />
much does it really cost us?” I know we buy the gifts for<br />
foodbank or for shoeboxes, and I know that charity shop<br />
donations are gifts of things we have bought originally –<br />
all of which have cost us money. But – once we’ve given<br />
that gift we tend to forget all about it.<br />
There is another form of generosity which, for me, has<br />
a different kind of cost – that of time. I know that time<br />
is precious, and most of us complain we haven’t got<br />
enough time to do whatever we want. Isn’t that part of<br />
the problem, though. We are looking at what we want<br />
to do, and that stops us spending precious time with<br />
others, or giving our time, for example, in volunteering.<br />
It’s those little acts of kindness, those precious minutes<br />
spent with someone else which actually mean far<br />
more, and give us a greater sense of satisfaction - and<br />
are remembered long after we’ve forgotten about that<br />
money we donated to a good cause, or the clothes we<br />
gave to a charity shop.<br />
Time is precious, but the challenge for us today is<br />
how can we spend some of our precious time with,<br />
and for, others?<br />
Eleanor<br />
Church of St Peter and St Paul<br />
The <strong>Nov</strong>ember Services in the Swaffham parish<br />
church will be as follows:-<br />
Wednesday 2nd 10.00am Holy Communion<br />
Sunday 6th 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
9.30am Sung Eucharist<br />
3.30pm Service of Commemoration<br />
of All Souls<br />
Wednesday 9th 10.00am Holy Communion<br />
Thursday 10th 7.00pm Festival of Remembrance<br />
Friday 11th 10.55am The 2 Minutes Silence<br />
Armistice Day<br />
at the War Memorial<br />
Sunday 13th 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
Remembrance 10.45am The Act of Remembrance<br />
Sunday<br />
beginning at the town<br />
War Memorial, moving<br />
to the parish church<br />
Wednesday <strong>16</strong>th 10.00am Holy Communion<br />
Sunday 20th 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
9.30am Sung Eucharist<br />
Wednesday 23rd 10.00am Holy Communion<br />
Sunday 27th 8.00am Holy Communion<br />
Advent Sunday 10.00am Advent Sung Eucharist<br />
(a united service with the Sporle congregation)<br />
6.00pm Advent Carol service<br />
Wednesday 30th 10.00am Holy Communion
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