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Here is your round up of the latest news from our church and beyond. Please read on to find out more.

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 December

A Very Happy Christmas to you all!

Saturday Christmas Eve
2.00pm            Pre-School Christingle
3.15pm            Christingle
4.30pm            Christingle
5.45pm            Christingle
11.15pm          Midnight Communion

Sunday Christmas Day
8.00am            Christmas communion (Book of Common Prayer) Titus 3:4-7; Luke 2:1-14
10.00am          Christmas celebration

NEWS AND EVENTS
Christmas Services

Christmas Eve
2.00pm            Pre-School Christingle
This Christingle is particularly aimed at families with the youngest children
3.15pm            Christingle
4.30pm            Christingle
5.45pm            Christingle
11.15pm          Midnight Communion

Christmas Day
8.00am            Christmas communion (Book of Common Prayer)
10.00am          Christmas celebration

Sunday 1 January
8.00am            Communion
10.00am          Morning Worship (children will stay in for whole service)
6.00pm            Cornerstone

Betty Lloyd-Williams

Betty Lloyd-Williams died, aged 90, on Tuesday evening. Betty and Rolf first came to All Saints in the mid 1960s when they moved to Finches Gardens from Crawley. Funeral details to be announced later. Please pray for Rolf, Anne-Marie and Susan.

Christmas cards

Please do check the temporary box with dividers at the back of church, they still have lots of Christmas cards in them!

Church office hours over Christmas

The church office is now closed. It will re-open on Tuesday 3 January.

All Saints News at Christmas

You are receiving this email newsletter as usual for Christmas Day and there will be another for New Year's Day. The next deadline for items is noon on Thursday 29 December. There will be no print version on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.

Youth Clubs

Engage (school years 6-9, ages 10-14) will restart on Thursday 12 January and Encrypt (school years 10-13, ages 14-18) kicks off on Friday 13 January.
Thank you to those who pray regularly for the youth ministry at All Saints – please join me in giving thanks for the teams of youth leaders who serve the young people so faithfully and enthusiastically week-by-week. Stuart Silk

Youth Weekends Away – can you help?

We are looking for folks to provide hot meals on Saturday evening and Sunday lunchtime for the Engage Weekend Away on 28/29 January at the Westwatch Centre, just past Horsted Keynes. We are hoping to have 20 young people (aged 10-14) and 5 leaders who would be grateful for whatever you can provide! If you can't help on this occasion, the older teens group, Encrypt, are having their Weekend Away at the same venue on 25-26 February, and are also looking for cooks for Saturday evening and Sunday lunch. If you can help in any way, please drop me a line. Many thanks. stuart.silk@lindfield.info / 07866 487535

Stamps for the Leprosy Mission

The Leprosy Mission will no longer be collecting stamps as part of their fund raising. The value of stamps has fallen in the last couple of years and with the introduction of bar-codes the stamp value has fallen even further. Therefore the last collection from our notice board by the pigeonholes in the Tiger will be on Wednesday 11 January. We have been sending stamps from All Saints to the Leprosy Mission for 15 years and the Leprosy Mission thanks you all for the stamps that you have donated over the years. Thank you. Barbara Hoy

BEYOND ALL SAINTS
Ode to Joyce Concert

The Apollo Theatre Company will be performing a selection of songs and monologues of Joyce Grenfell on Friday 20 January at All Saints to raise funds for a singing project for people living with dementia.

MISSION

Cross Mission Prayer Meeting

Please join us for the next prayer meeting for Cross Mission in India (Mohan and Moses) on Sunday 8 January in The Tiger lounge from 4.30pm to 5.30pm. An ideal opportunity to pray for this important and fruitful ministry at the beginning of the new year. Ron & Janet Goodenough

PRAYER

Youth Pastor and Senior Pastor appointments

Unfortunately we have been unable to make appointments for these two positions. Please pray as we advertise again in the New Year.

Praying for the church family

Please continue to hold in your prayers those known to you who may be especially in need of God's comfort at this time and especially for:

Rosieta Burton
Please continue to pray for Rosieta.

Gordon Trew
Please continue to pray for Gordon.

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