Clear your diaries, we are running a Bingo night! The first call will be made on Saturday March 27th, at 7.30pm. All in aid of the Bishops' Lent appeal which is supporting food poverty in London and Zimbabwe. If you want to be part of it, then email the parish office at sasms@btinternet.com and in the days leading up to the bingo an email link will be sent to you, which will bring forth your Bingo card, and you can either print it out and use a pen or pencil or you can do it all online.<div><a href="http://www.surbitonchurch.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0YKVcd-wyG1aYp8jWL7YYZzj-Afk0YbqNplssgR2GnbvhIj_V5wOsTVb4">www.surbitonchurch.org.uk</a></div>
Arrive at your start time and you'll be following a trail around the church, in which you have to find different pictures of Mary, Jesus' mother, in the stained glass and all around.Then you'll come out to the church garden to pick up some daffodils, which you could give to your mother or to someone who is like a mother to you. We're doing it in five minute slots, so lots of people can come through, without breaking any regulations. Start any time between 9 and 10am!Please book one ticket via Eventbrite per family group; your family group being those you live with or are in a support bubble with (not exceeding a group of 6, including children and adults)Social distancing rules, mask wearing and hand sanitising will all be in place as well as a track and trace system.
On a Tuesday morning at 10am or Tuesday evening at 8pm when we will be tackling a different theme each week from the course 'Lent in lockdown: Living in a strange land' . It will be examining our experience of Lockdown in the light of the Christian scriptures and traditionSession One: Loss of space: church closures and home lifeSession Two: Being disabled by lockdown and shieldingSession Three: Being isolated, and the spirituality of isolationSession Four: Timelessness, the feeling of endlessness, and 'accidie'Session Five: Life and death: living in the context of our own death and resurrection.As Robert, who will be leading the course writes:"The themes of the course are isolation, disability, loneliness, timelessness, and life and death. If that sounds tricky, I suppose that’s because it is, but then that’s also how life is right now. It strikes me, though, that a lot of these things are areas where, over the centuries, the Christian faith has had a lot to say. Loneliness? Try the desert fathers. Isolation? The Bible takes us into the wilderness all the time. Life and death? Jesus embodies it all, literally". So each week we’ll take a different theme, examine our experience of it, and then see the Christian story can help us reshape our understanding and help us to live well</span>It’ll run every Tuesday. You can join in the morning at 10am or in the evening at 8pm, depending on what fits in with you. There’ll be some input but also time for discussion. Each session will last an hour or a tiny bit over an hour. For Zoom links to join the online Lent groups led by Robert and Michael please see your weekly email or contact the parish office at sasms@btinternet.com
Curated by our Quizmaster Michael, we will be answering questions for quiz pleasure and glory. Teams can be of any size (so long as they are legal!), but as with recent quizzes, there will be a handicap system.As with other recent social events, we are guaranteeing £500 to the Charity of the Month, in this case Oxygen, and hoping that donations via the Church’s web page broadly match that. In our experience, the church might get a little extra or a little less, but it basically works out.Oxygen is a Christian Charity that positively engages with hundreds of young people across Kingston Upon Thames. The late Peter Holmes, played a strong role in the charity's development, and through Oxygen - and other causes locally - his legacy lives on. Please click here for more information about Oxygen.To join the quiz on Saturday please contact the parish office sasms@btinternet.com for the Zoom link and codes.
