Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service of worship. May the peace and blessing of God be with us all this Advent season. Next Sunday sees our Carol services around the team – please do keep this sheet as a reminder for you, and dont forget that all our services for each month, and Festivals too, can be found on…
A very warm welcome to our worship on this Advent Sunday. “Prepare the Way for the Lord, make his paths straight.” In the current all too frantic “build up to Christmas” it is sometimes easy to forget that Advent is traditionally a time of waiting, and expectation. This hopeful and reflective strand to our tradition can rather be swept aside by the…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping across the Langtree Team ministry area this morning. A special welcome if you are visiting friends and family, or are with us for the first time. May the peace and joy of Jesus Christ be with you all. Do pop into Checkendon Village Hall next Saturday morning (2nd December)…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping across the Langtree Team ministry area. May the love and peace of Christ be with you all. The season of Advent begins in a few weeks time, and there is to be an evening of Advent reflection and prayer led by Liz Lowth and Linda Smith at St John’s…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to our Remembrance Sunday commemoration services across the Langtree Team Ministry area. We give thanks today for the sacrifices that were (and are still being) made which enable us to live in peace and freedom. As we remember the men and women of our communities who served in both the past and the present let us…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to our worship this morning, wherever you are praising God across the Langtree Team Ministry area. It is great that we can celebrate in freedom and joy, without interference from either the state or the security services. It is also brilliant that we can share ecumenically with our brothers and sisters in the Roman Catholic church,…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team ministry area this morning. School Half Term It is the first weekend of the schools’ half term, and so a good opportunity to give thanks to God for their work. The teaching staff, governors, volunteers, and parents all contribute to supporting and building these vital…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team ministry area. May the peace of Christ be with us all. A special welcome to the friends and families of Jack Rowling and Rupert Poynter, who are being baptised this morning at Checkendon. What a celebration we are going to have! Don’t forget that on…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, wherever you are worshipping in the Langtree Team Ministry area. May the peace of Christ be with us all. Please remember in your prayers Tessa Merson and Daniel Terzino, to be married at Checkendon this coming Saturday. Also Jack Rowling and Rupert Poynter, to be baptised next Sunday. We give thanks for the…
Dear friends, A very warm welcome to this service, and a particular welcome to those joining us for Harvest Festival at Checkendon and Stoke Row. Praise God for his provision, and faithfulness in Creation, that brings sun, and rain, and growth and life. We give thanks to God for Toby Mottram, and Grace Kirby, married at Checkendon yesterday, and ask for his…