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NOVEMBER 2018 St. Thomas’ Christmas services 2nd December 2018 3pm Christingle Service 18th December 2018 3pm Quiet Christmas Service 19th December 2018 7pm Carols for All 24th December 2018 10.30am Crib Service 11.30pm Midnight Mass 25th December 2018 10am Christmas Day Communion Service 14
Celebrating Harvest at Messy Church. NOVEMBER 2018 It was brilliant to welcome some new families to Messy Church in October as we met to celebrate Harvest. We all had great fun exploring the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 by trying to stamp, print, paint or glue 5000 people onto our huge paper and making our own edible picnic baskets of 5 loaves and 2 fish. We also made bread dough to take home and bake and jelly gardens to have for our pudding. We learnt where lots of the foods we eat every day are produced and packed as well as trying our hand at a spot of fishing! If you came into church in the two weeks following our celebration you may have seen our special thanksgiving bunting which celebrated our favourite foods, too. Later we sang the Harvest Samba, prayed with bread dough and, due to a technical hitch, invented our own special version of ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands’ – including dinosaurs and elephants! As usual, the fun was all topped off with a lovely meal together. We’re really looking forward to the next one on Sunday 11 th November when we will be thinking about Remembering – hope to see you there! Rev. Claire Walker Historical article - First published in St. Thomas’ Parish News February 1962 A Warmer Church I hope that you have noticed that the church has been warmer since Christmas. This is because the P.C.C. decided to keep the heating system working all through the week for the time being. A building as big as the church does not get properly warmed if it is only heated at week-ends. The difference is certainly noticeable. I was told during some cold weather in January that the church was the warmest place in town, and no one has spoken like that before. As people discover that the church is no longer a cold place from Monday until Saturday, they may also be encouraged to make more use of it during the week. I hope so, anyway. Of course, it means that we are using much more coke, and coke is very expensive. We shall have to review the situation when we know quite what the extra cost has been. 15
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