Claydon Benefice Monthly Notice sheet of Services and Events with latest weekly update
FRIDAY 19th December
A Happy Christmas to you all. Well all the fundraising and community carol singing is over and we can now focus on the joy of our Christmas worship in our three Churches. A big thank you to all who supported and helped with the Christmas Fayre at Great Blakenham last Saturday - a good turnout again. Father Christmas also visited and met many children who received gifts. Thanks to everyone who has worked to organise and support all our pre-Christmas events and outreach to young people.
This year at Great Blakenham we are holding a new service aimed at people for whom Christmas can be a difficult time. We are offering a simple service with a few gentle carols. Often the memory of those we have loved and lost can be particularly poignant at this time of year, so there will be an opportunity to light a candle to remember them. It will be held tomorrow (Saturday 20th December) at 4:00 pm.
This Sunday there are our afternoon/evening carol services at Barham and Henley as well as the usual morning services. At the Barham 10am service on Sunday Chris and Anji Dawkins will be telling us about their recent trip to Kagera so hopefully we can make a special effort to attend twice this Sunday - after all it is Christmas!! Details of all Christmas services across our three Churches are detailed on the attached poster.
Clare Thomas volunteers as a deliverer for the FIND Food bank and they are struggling to get enough plastic bags for deliveries - so if you have any disposably bags or surplus bags-for-life please bring them to Church so Clare can take them to FIND. Re-use rather than recycle.
The Christmas/New Year break is a time of joy for many but also a time when many others can feel lonely. I am pleased to say that the Friday drop-in at Barham Church Hall will be open as usual on 2nd January although not on Boxing Day. Please encourage anyone you know to pop along - it is totally informal and we usually have a bit of a laugh.
Looking forward to Epiphany, there will be the usual Epiphany Shared Lunch after the service on 4th January at Barham at 12 noon. No need to book just bring along some food to share.
Finally please note that next Sunday (28th) there will be just one service in the Benefice being the 10am Benefice Communion at Barham
