You are invited to join us this Christmas at …. The Christmas Fair at Low House, Armathwaite on Saturday, 3 December at 10.30am until 12 noon. There will be coffee and cakes, gift and cake stall and, of course, raffle. Do come and join us with your friends and enjoy a convivial morning. Carols at the Duke’s Head, Armathwaite We hope to see you in the car park at the Duke’s Head on Thursday, 15 December at 7pm. Come along to join in the singing of carols and to have a glass of beer or wine. The Revd Mark Houston will be there with his guitar leading the singing – so come along and join in! Christmas Eve At 11.30pm there will be a service of Holy Communion to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The service will be held in the Old School Hall and you are most welcome to join us. If you have never been to a Christmas Service before why not come along and start your Christmas with us – we would love to see you.
There’ll be tea, coffee and cakes, singing, accompanied by Mark with his guitar and Sian on her keyboard, activities for the young and young at heart together with stories, prayers and friendship. Please come and join us – we hope to continue with this new style of worship every other month. Watch the December/January magazine for hopefully a list of future dates. We hope this will be the start of something different which will appeal to you!
The theme will be “new beginnings” and it is a new style of Sunday Service for Armathwaite, more relaxed than the usual traditional style of worship and hopefully it will appeal to people of all ages. Come along and meet Mark, who became our Vicar in 2021, if you haven’t already had the chance. There’ll be tea, coffee and cakes, singing, accompanied by Mark with his guitar and Sian on her keyboard, painting and activities for the young and young at heart together with stories and prayers. Please come and join us – we hope this will be the start of something different on Sundays in Armathwaite which will appeal to you!
As Ash Wednesday & the Lent season draws close I thought I would share information & make some requests.There will a service on Ash Wednesday (March 2) at High Hesket Church with the imposition of ashes. This will begin at 7pm'Embracing Justice' by Isabelle Hamley is the Archbishop of Canterbury's choice of Lent book for 2022. The box of books I ordered has been snapped up but if anyone would still like a copy if you let me know I can try and get more.A Zoom group seems to be the most popular idea among those with copies of the book.Looking at my diary throughout Lent could I ask that we meet on Sunday evenings for an hour of online book group to chat through the suggested questions. We will commence on 6 March at 7.30 to look at Ch 1 Paradise Lost: In search of original justice. 13/3 - Ch 2 (From bondage to freedom: Exodus & liberation stories)20/3 - Ch 3 (Building communities of justice: Legal systems)27/3 - Ch 4 (Justice & Incarnation: Restoring the image of God)3/4 - Ch 5 (Justice in the shape of a cross)10/4 - Ch 6 (Do this to remember me: Holy Communion and the reshaping of the imaginationReading the book would be an obvious help but the sessions will be open to everyone. OR if anyone is interested in meeting together in a home or church please do get in touch with me ASAP.
