5 December 2010

Sunday’s Service:

2nd of Advent

10.00 am - Prayer.

10.30 am - Service of Thanksgiving.

6.30 pm - Communion.

Readings - Matthew 3: 1-12 (p967), 1 Kings 18: 17-39 (p359), John 1: 19-28 (p1063)

Readers - Elizabeth Atkinson, Brian Dracup, Gerry Newton.

Intercessors - Lauren Wills, Gavin Budby.

Wednesday’s Service

Advent 2

10.00 am - BCP Communion.

Readings - Romans 15: 4-13 (p1141) & Luke 21: 25-33 (p1057)

Reader - Revd P Aitchison.

NOTICE BOARD Collect

Christmas Services

19th Dec 6.30 pm - Carol Service Almighty God,

Christmas Eve 3 & 5 pm - Christingle Service purify our hearts and minds,

Christmas Day 8 am - BCP Communion that when your Son Jesus Christ comes again as
judge and saviour
Christmas Day 10.30 am - Family Communion
we may be ready to receive him,
Food Cupboard We are now putting together
Christmas parcels, it would be lovely if we could who is our Lord and our God.
include some Christmas food items, please remember
include some Christmas food items, please remember
Amen.
us when you are out shopping. Thanks Daisy and
Janet.

Christingles Candles are on the welcome desk for

you to take home to fill and bring back with you to one
of the Christingle services. If you would like to take PRAYER

one for anyone else in your family then please feel

Preparation for Christmas
free to do so.
Worship team
Christmas Crafts Please could you save any tin cans
(preferably the ring pull ones as these are the safest) Leaders & preachers
as we are going to be using them in the after school
Readers & Intercessors
groups over the next few weeks up to Christmas to
make planters etc. Please give any washed cans to
Jenny asap.
CONTACTS
The Well Funding Update Praise God that during the
Vicar: Revd. Don Gilkes
past month we have really been blessed and received
grants from Normanton Churches Together and The 01924 893100
Co-op, the money will be used for the continuation of
the project. We have been accepted through to full 07821 325350

application stage for a Reaching Communities Lottery

don.gilkes@allsaintsnormanton.org
Grant, which is fantastic news and an achievement
just to get to this stage. Jenny and the Trustees are
now working hard on the full submission which has to
Youthworker: Gavin Budby
be in early next year. Please pray that everything falls
in place for this application. 01924 220868

Christmas Card This year we are suggesting that 07969 089959

instead of sending individual Christmas cards
gavin@budby.f9.co.uk
everyone signs the large Wakefield Hospice
Christmas card on the notice board and then puts a
donation for the Hospice in the box provided on the
chair below the notice board. Community Development officer:

Parish Weekend I am delighted to say that Rt Revd. Jenny Farrall-Bird

Colin Buchanan will be leading our teaching at

01924 892410
Scarborough. Colin was principle of St. John’s
Theological College, Nottingham before becoming 07872 551640
bishop of Aston and then Woolwich. He is now retired
jenny@thewellproject.org.uk
in Leeds.

Rotas The new welcome/coffee rotas for January are

in the pigeon holes. Churchwardens:

Right to Believe Thank you for signing the Right to Phil Atkinson: 01924 223507
Believe petition. Open doors have received over
John Dracup: 07753 987 668
144,000 signatures. The petition will be presented at
the United Nations in New York on 6th December to
Mr Simonovic, the Assistant Secretary-General for
Human Rights. Please pray that the strong show of Church Office

support for the petition will influence the decision

support for the petition will influence the decision
Admin: Barbara Teece
makers within the UN, showing the level of concern
regarding the Defamation of Religions Resolutions 01924 220868
from thousands around the world. If anyone would
office@allsaintsnormanton.org
like more information please let me know - Stephanie.

Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Appeal Thank

you to everyone who donated a shoe box - 49 were Open weekdays 9.00am-3.00pm except Wednesday
collected. Rachel Budby. from 10.00am

Church Walking Group Our provisional dates for Call to book Parish rooms for Baptism and
Saturday walks in the new year are: 29th January, Weddings: Tuesday 7.00-8.00pm Parish Room
26th February, 26th March, 30th April.

Yorkshire Philharmonic A few tickets remain for the

Yorkshire Philharmonic’s Annual Christmas
Concert in Wakefield Cathedral on Saturday 18th
December at 7.30 pm. It will be the usual Christmas
fun and of course lots of ‘joining in’. Tickets are still
available from the Cathedral Bookshop or Wakefield
Tourist Information Centre, but hurry - a phone call
should secure them.

Worship Rotas

Next Sunday

10.30 am - Communion.

Readers - Christine Shaw, Virginia Hashimi.

Intercessor - Denise Burgess.

Welcome/Coffee - Ann Bucktrout, Christine Steels,

Janet Robinson, Judith Townsend.

Counting - Bob Burgess, David Sanderson, Ann

Preston.

Wednesday 15th December

10.00 am - BCP Communion.

Reader - Robert.

Weekly Action

Tues 7.00 pm - The Aftershock in Parish Rooms

Wed 10.00 am - Traditional Communion in church

1.00 pm - Mums, Dads and Tots in Parish Rooms

6.00 pm - Rock Solid High in Parish Rooms

 7.30 pm - Freedom in Christ Youth in Parish Rooms

Thurs 4.00 pm - Rock Solid Junior in Parish Rooms

7.30 pm - Youthy in Well@Woodhouse

7.30 pm - Worship Team in Church

Sunday Morning Kid’s Groups

1st Sunday - Service of Thanksgiving-please sit with

your family

2nd Sunday - Meet in Church and sit together with

activities in Side Chapel

3rd Sunday - Meet in Parish Rooms from 10.00 am

for Breakfast Club

4th Sunday - Meet in Church and sit together with

activities in Side Chapel

A Crèche for under 4’s is available at every service

under the East Window.

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