This year our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held at 11.00am on 12th May. This is the meeting when we elect Churchwardens to serve for the following year and members of the PCC (All Saints’ executive committee). We also hear about All Saints' life and activities in the previous year (2023), and receive the accounts. This is your church, so do come! Coffee is available in church before the meeting. A booklet of reports on matters from the Institute to church flowers, the Mothers’ Union to bell-ringing, which do not figure on the prescribed agenda, will be available in church for you to browse. Nomination forms for churchwardens, PCC members and a seat on Epsom Deanery Synod are available from Susan (via admin@bansteadallsaints.com). Any parishioner may vote for the churchwardens, but for the PCC it is necessary to be on All Saints’ Electoral Roll.
Revd Kate Blake's Collation, Induction and Installation Service at Banstead will take place on 14th May at 7.30pm, when we look forward to welcoming her properly to her ministry here. The Service will be led by the Bishop of Guildford (Rt Revd Andrew Watson) and the Archdeacon of Dorking (Ven Martin Breadmore).For those who cannot attend the service will be live-streamed to https://www.youtube.com/@allsaintschurchbanstead7965, and available thereafter.The service will be live-streamed to https://www.youtube.com/@allsaintschurchbanstead7965 for those at home.Please pray for Kate and her husband Tony as they move here and get to know us all.
‘Sing for Joy’ takes place in church at 11.00am on the third Wednesday of each month. It welcomes everybody, of any age, from across the village and beyond. Its aim is to lift the spirits and revive the memories and to encourage friendship, through hospitality and a sing-along of popular songs and hymns following seasonal themes. It is especially popular with people affected by dementia and their friends. ‘Sing for Joy’ is free, including refreshments, with a retiring collection, usually for the Alzheimer’s Society. No special musical ability is required, just join in and enjoy. The next meeting will be on 20th March 2024.
Teddies 10 Minutes has long welcomed babies and pre-schoolers (and their carers) on Wednesdays 1.45-3.00pm. It's a friendly time for story, song, prayer and play, plus chat and simple refreshments. At present we do not have enough volunteers to help with sessions. Watch for more news.
