Notice Sheet
A Place of Welcome every Thursday 10.00am – 12 noon in the Garden
Room; for all in the community, providing company, free refreshments, and a
listening ear.
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Tuesday Fellowship, 2nd Tuesday of the month, next meeting Tuesday 9th
December at 2.30pm in the Garden Room, for a cuppa ‘n’ chat and fellowship
together. Everyone welcome
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Advent Bible Study, in the Garden Room. Everyone Welcome.
Mondays at 10.30am – 12noon, 1st, 8th, and 15th.December
Thursdays at 7.15pm – 8.45pm, 4th and 11th December
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Coffee Mornings in the Garden Room Wednesday 3rd and 17th December
10.30am - 12noon. Everyone Welcome
Donations towards Shoe Box Gifts welcome
Zoom Coffee Morning on Wednesday 10th December at 10.30am,
Zoom Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 10.00am, no Zoom meeting on
25th Dec. If you’re interested in joining in via zoom please email
Meryl meryl.griffiths@btinternet.com Everyone Welcome
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Shoe Box Gifts Thank you to everyone who throughout the year has been
sewing, knitting, crocheting, collecting items, preparing, buying, collecting and
wrapping boxes and donating money, in total we sent 201 shoe box gifts.
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Christmas Cards If you would like your Christmas cards distributed, to people
who normally attend the Sunday Services, Tuesday Fellowship, the Coffee
Mornings and Place of Welcome please put them in the red box when you
come to the Mission between 1st and 14th Dec, so that they can be sorted
before 21st Dec. Please make clear who the card is for as we have a duplicate
of names, if you are unsure of surnames, please try to put a description or
identifying information on the envelope.
We will do our best to ensure the cards are ‘delivered’ by Christmas Day.
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Little Sunbeams Baby and Toddler Group every 1.00pm - 2.30pm.
Tuesday 2nd and 9th Dec.in the Hall.
Little Explorers 9.15am – 10.15am Wednesday 3rd and 17th Dec in the
Garden Room
If you know a family with children under school age, please invite them.
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FoodBank On the 11th November, we took the goods contributed by you and
the collection from the Slimming World group to Worcester Foodbank. In
addition, we took a cheque for £1,000 donated by the Mission Trust.
As always, it was greatly appreciated by the staff and volunteers, as demand
for their services continues to grow.
We will be going again before Christmas if you would like to contribute any
goods or monetary gifts, please do so by 14th December.
Here are some of the most urgently needed items:
Cereals / sponge
puddings
Christmas pudding
(non-alcoholic
please)
Snacks, e.g.
crisps / cereal
bars
Instant mashed
potato
Christmas cake Instant coffee/tea
bags
Rice / pasta /
pasta sauce
Long-life juice /
milk
Christmas
chocolates/biscuits
Tinned: carrots,
fish, potatoes, fruit
Jam
Many thanks for your continued support. Gill; Sue and Steve
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ECO-CHURCH NEWS
The season of excessive consumption is upon us! Christmas
wasn’t always about excessive consumption – we have the
Victorians to thank for modern Christmas traditions. In the
past Christmas was a time of Advent (waiting) and
Celebration of Christ’s Birth.
Eco-church has some tips to make the season less wasteful.
1. Give with purpose, chose handmade, local or meaningful gifts that do
good.
2. Wrap reuseable – skip glitter paper! Use brown paper, old maps, or
fabric wraps tied with twine.
3. Shop small, shop local – fewer miles, more community.
4. Regift or repair – a loved book or mended item can mean more.
5. Think creation in every choice – the best gift might be one that helps
nature flourish.
6. Scout around your garden for natural Christmas decorations – holly,
ivy, berries, leaves of shrubs, etc. Use natural beeswax candles. No
tinsel. Up-cycle jars, fabrics, ribbons, etc. Use LED Christmas lights.
7. Pick a FSC-certified or rent a Christmas tree (I think Roots at
Rushwick does this).
A greener Christmas means a more hopeful world.
Peace and Goodwill from Sue Garfield
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Flower Rota Please sign up on the list at the back of the church or contact
Margaret Hughes if you would like to go on the rota for 2025 by 15th Dec.
Please don’t feel you have to do an elaborate arrangement, there are a variety
of vases in the Messy Kitchen.
Refreshments Rota Please see Gill if you are able to provide refreshments
after a service.
The more people who put their names down on these rotas the more the load
is shared.
Thank you to everyone who has provided
flowers and refreshments during the year
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Refreshments
7th December Meryl and Michael
14th December Worship 4 All
21st December Tea after Carol
Service
28th December
Gill Bring and Share Tea