WORSHIP IN MARCH

March this year includes Mothering Sunday, for which our All Age Communion will be at 10 a.m. on Sunday 14^th. The 10 a.m. service on March 7 will be a Parish Eucharist. The Deanery Lent services run until Palm Sunday March 28, when Evensong resumes at St Swithun’s at 6 p.m.. That morning we will hold our Palm Sunday procession from St Swithun’s School at 10 a.m., featuring Mimi the Donkey. The last few days of March see the start of Holy Week, and this year we are going to hold a Taize service at 8 p.m. on Tuesday in Holy Week, March 30. Why not make this quiet meditative service a part of your spiritual journey with Jesus at that holy time?

LENT COURSE AND LENT CHALLENGE

It’s not too late to participate in the Bishop’s Lent Challenge and the Lent Course they have produced for the Diocese this year. Both are looking at the words spoken by Jesus in Luke’s Gospel, and asking us to ‘read it, learn it pray it and do it’. Challenge verses are on display in church. If you’d like to receive them personally, please sign up at www.challenge2010.org or on the Notice Board in church.

CHURCH ANNUAL MEETINGS

Just a line or two to give notice that the Annual meetings will take place after worship on Sunday April 25. This is when we elect churchwardens and PCC members, appoint sidesmen and sideswomen, and receive the church’s annual reports. The meetings begin at about 11.30 and notices and nomination sheets are now on the notice board. Please consider if you might offer your services in any of these ways – it’s good each year to have a mix of experienced church members and new blood coming forward to take responsibility within our church community. Those who stand, and their nominators and seconders, must be on the electoral roll, which will be revised earlier in April. Thank you.

Derwyn.

DEANERY LENT EVENING SERVICES

This year’s Deanery Lent Services are on the theme ‘Hidden Gems – Bits of the Bible we often overlook’. A number of preachers some from the deanery, some from outside, will tackle obscure books of the scriptures, explaining why they are relevant to Christian faith and life today. All are welcome to what should be an interesting, and unique, series.