St Chad’s Notices Sunday 4th December 2011 Contact: Johanna@stchadsromiley.co.uk

Prayer at St Chad’s St Chad’s seeks to be a prayerful church. Each week we have a list of prayer points to help guide your prayers. If you have any prayer requests please contact the church office or Johanna Pearson.

• Pray for school visits: Monday 19th Romiley Primary School Key Stage 1 in the morning, then Greave yr3&4 in the afternoon Tuesday 20th Romiley Primary School Key Stage 2 throughout the day. Both days will include prayer & reflection activities around the themes of Faith, Hope, Love & Ligiht as seen through characters in the Christmas story.

• Pray for the Christmas services this year – take a card from the back for details of services.

• Pray for ‘Who Let The Dads’ out on 17th December.

Cut along the strip and stick our weekly diary and prayer points in

your bag/bible!

Day of Prayer Thursday 8th December Guywood Centre (in The Upper Room). This coming Thursday is our day of prayer. The focus is to come together as a church before Christmas to worship God, spend time in His Presence, to partner with Him in extending His kingdom over Christmas and into 2011. There will be a mixture of led prayers and open prayer slots. For an outline of the day please pick up a Day of Prayer sheet from the back.

Hamper Donations: Each year we are able to bless members of our community with food hampers close to Christmas. We need to start shopping for contents in the next week or so, so if youʼd like to make a contribution, please pick up a Bless the Community letter/response form and place it, with your donation, in the box at the back of church. Alternatively, you can give it to Jan in the church office. The deadline for responses is 11th December, anything earlier would really help! CafeLife Evenings: We will be holding two open evenings for our regular customers on 19th & 20th December, 7-9pm. We want to bless our customers with complimentary cheese & wine, festive fayre & mulled wine. Although this event is specifically for our customers, weʼd like to offer members of St Chadʼs the chance to invite friends along. If you have someone youʼd like to bring along please speak to Ruth Otto or Jane Wain in the next week.

Tonight 7.30pm - 9.00pm Guywood Centre Focus: The Holy Spirit Please note that on 11th December Breakout will be back in Lifecentre.

Change of time: Holy Communion on Wednesday 14th December will be at 12.00 not 11.00am.

Christmas at St Chad’s

You can now pick up Christmas flyers with full details of our Christmas services. Why not take some extras and deliver them to your street? We are looking for people willing to help welcome and/or serve refreshments at our 18th Dec services. Speak to Jan for more details or sign up in church.

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The week ahead…

Monday 5th 3.30pm Fireworks 7.30pm Mothers Prayers Tuesday 6th 10.00am Little Lights 5.45pm Fuel Wednesday 7th 10.00am Sparklers 11.00am Communion 4.15pm Cherry Youth 6.30pm Deeper 7.00pm Core Thursday 8th Day of Prayer-Guywood from 7am 10.00am Stars 10.30am Mothers Prayers Sunday 11th 9.15am Service 10.45am Service 10.45am Children’s Church & Deeper Sundays 2.30pm Rainbow 6.30pm Pulse Youth 7.30pm Break out 7.30pm Rainbow

Church Office 1-5 Stockport Road Romiley, Stockport

SK6 4BN

phone (0161) 430 4652 email office@stchadsromiley.co.uk

web www.stchadsromiley.co.uk Office Hours

Mon - Thurs 9 - 5pm

10.45am Coffee and Welcomers We really need more volunteers to serve each Sunday. Are you able to welcome people into church and/or serve refreshments at the end of our service? Please speak with Jan Anthony.

Christmas Open Afternoon Date: Sunday 11th December Time: 3 – 5.30pm Venue: 4 Quarry Road, Romiley, SK6 4BA I will be having a sale of homemade jam, chutney, marmalade and cakes plus a few other Christmas items. ALL the proceeds from this sale will go to my Kilimanjaro Challenge fund. Bring your friends and family, refreshments will be available and there will be biscuit icing for the children. Helen Tester

Christmas Concert

Guywood Centre on 11th Dec at 2.30pm and again at 7.00pm.

The Christian praise and worship band Rainbow will be presenting their Christmas concert of songs, readings and drama again this December. Itʼs a fun, relaxed event with a message of preparing hearts and minds for the amazing event of ʻGod with usʼ - ideal to bring non-Christian friends along to. Last year the event was described by a member of our congregation as the best Christmas carol type concert she had ever attended.

Tickets are free and available from Ken Earith or Judith Dixon or phone 430 4692. We recommend you get your ticket soon – last year we were packed out!

Men’s Christmas Curry

13th Dec at Indigo 7.00pm Everyone welcome... well… if youʼre a man. Please contact Chris Cooke if youʼll be coming so a table can be booked. Chris: 0161 430 8691 or c.cooke63@ntlworld.com

Christian Relief Uganda alternative Christmas Presents Why not buy a 'present' for Maria's Care, Kamuli, Uganda, and help the supported children there? Choose your gift from the list and an attractive GIFT CERTIFICATE will be sent to the person you designate. Just fill in a form (available at the back of church) send it off and your certificate will be delivered or contact David or Audrey Bomford. It's a great way of helping the charity and avoiding giving 'unappreciated' gifts!

Shiver me timbers! Unfortunately we are currently only able to operate one of our two boilers to heat the church. We are progressing with the Diocese and a local company to rectifying the situation, but it is going to take a little while for further inspections to take place. As such, please could people just be aware that the temperature in church may be lower than it would normally be, but that we are able to use all radiators - they just don't go to maximum heat so you might want to a bring coat!