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Worship on Sunday 8 November - Remembrance Sunday
As we cannot worship in person in Trinity because of the national lockdown, the service for Remembrance Sunday will be available on the church website here from 10.30am. The service will be led by our minister Revd Dr David Dickinson.
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Christian Study - At this page on the church website you will find links to both the Junior and Adult webpages from Roots on the Web, a resource used by some departments in Junior Church.
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Coffee and Chat
During this lockdown period, the Coffee and Chat Zoom meetings will be held on Sunday mornings directly following the online service.
If you would like to join some familiar faces you would be welcome. Please contact John and Deborah Wroe 020 8642 9064 or john.p.wroe@gmail.com.
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Dial a service! If you know anyone who would like to be able to listen to our recorded services, but who doesn't have internet access, we now have a solution for them too - please let them know! Simply phone 020 3319 1332 at any time and listen to hear a recording of the most recent service at Trinity. The cost is that of a local call, which for many people will be free.
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Call after 1.00pm on Sunday by which time that morning's service should be available.
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How to order your Christmas Cards
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Traidcraft Christmas Cards
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If you wish to order Traidcraft Christmas cards please use a Traidcraft catalogue from the back of the church and email your order to Sheila Greenslade (sheilagreenslade@hotmail.com) by 15 November. Then post a cheque to Sheila at 12 Village Row, Mulgrave Road, Sutton SM2 6JZ, payable to "Trinity Church Traidcraft".
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Action for Children Christmas Cards
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If you wish to order any of the Action for Children Christmas cards detailed below, please email Malcolm Booth on m.s.booth@blueyonder.co.uk with your order and send a cheque to him (payable to Malcolm Booth) at 37 Sherwood Park Road, Sutton SM1 2SG by 15 November. The cost of the cards is £3.50 per pack of 10, the cards are 121 x 171mm.
Star at Night Nativity
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Carshalton Methodist church are organising this trip in October 2021 (postponed from this year) There is a vacancy and it is being offered to Trinity on a first come, first served basis. It is not currently being advertised anywhere else.
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More information can be found at this link.
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November Ecotip - The world of fashion
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It is estimated that in the UK we send clothing worth £140 million every year to landfill. . To avoid this:
- Look after your clothes, wash and repair them carefully
- Buy fewer and better quality clothes which you can wear for years. Look for sustainably and ethically made clothes eg from Traidcraft or Thought
- Buy from vintage or charity shops. Oxfam has an online shop if you prefer to shop from home. Alternative secondhand options online are sites such as Vinted, Depop and eBay, all of which have a wide variety of secondhand clothing sold by others (and you can sell your pre loved clothes too!)
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And finally
An Autumn Supplement to the Summer Supplement - 1620 and all that
I never got round to explaining the confusion which arises when telling the story of the Mayflower over the dates of those events. It seems to me that Holland (or at least the parts where the Pilgrim Fathers were living) had already adopted the Gregorian calendar (maybe from 1582), so dates for that part of the story tend to be 10 days behind the Julian Calendar, which was still in use in England and, presumably, the settlements (is it too early to be calling them Colonies?) in North America. By the time that England decided to change over (1752), the difference between Julian and Gregorian calendars had increased by an extra day, so the English had to miss out on 11 days in September of that year. So the date when Mayflower sailed from Plymouth could be either the 6th (Old Style) or 16th (New Style) of September 1620.
Using the Old Style calendar, the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod on 9th November. Realising they were off course, the captain attempted to sail south towards the River Hudson, but was forced back to Cape Cod. The ship lowered her anchor in Provincetown harbour on 11th November, and on the same day the Pilgrims signed the “Mayflower Compact” and set foot on dry land after a voyage of 66 days. These dates will fall next week, but planned celebrations in the USA are on hold due to the Coronavirus pandemic. They will just have to think up some other excuse to let their hair down this week.
And this really does conclude this more-or less contemporaneous account of that little ship’s voyage and the 400 years on celebrations which never were. [SM]
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