Christmas Day

Our Christmas Day service at the Cornwell Centre is at 11am; no refreshments before or after and we’ve only booked the hall until 12noon so a short service, but long enough for Carols, Readings, a thought and Prayers (Oh and a chance for the children to show some of their presents).

Do come along if you can.

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas,

Tony

Carol singing this Wed 19th December - please join us!

Please come and join us this Wed (19th) for an hour as we have another opportunity to share the Good News of Christmas with our neighbours.

Children / family / friends are welcome.

If you've never been carol-singing with Cornwell before, you might like to know why we're doing it and what to expect:

• We'll meet at 6 p.m. at the junction of Highworth Way and The Knoll (just along from Tony & Evelyn's)  
• We'll sing some well-known carols outside the homes in those roads 
• While most of us are singing, one or two willing volunteers will ring doorbells and wish residents a Merry Christmas on behalf of the church, offer them a chocolate and invite them along to Messy Nativity (on Christmas Eve) and Cornwell (on Christmas Day). 

It's one of the best opportunities we have over the year to 'take the church out into the community'. We've made some good contacts through carol-singing and people are generally pleased to see us...and surprised to learn that we're not collecting money!

Even if it's cold or wet, it won't be as uncomfortable as...
- keeping watch over your flocks by night, or...
- a camel ride from Persia to Palestine
...and there will be refreshments at Tony & Evelyn's afterwards!

So please come if you can!

Carols & Nativity Service

A big thank you to everyone who came to our Carols & Nativity service this afternoon. It was great seeing you all and everyone seemed to have a good time. We raised over £30 to help send Bees to Africa.

Carol Singing on Friday 14th December

Cornwell Church ‘warmly’ invite you all to join in with the Carol Singing on Friday – past singers have ended up with cold feet – but always say it is good fun!! The singers will be meeting at 8.00 pm at the corner of Clements Mead and Chapel Hill, and if you can’t make this session, there’s another one next week, in another part of the estate, on the 19th at the earlier time of 6.00 pm. You’ll receive more details about the next one next week. Please come if you’re able – you’ll be very welcome.

Operation Christmas Child - 110 shoeboxes

Here's just some of our 110 shoeboxes we had at our service this morning.

 

When combined with those at St Catherine's, which included contributes from local Brownie packs at Southcote Mission, we currently expect to be loaded 339 boxes into the van on Monday morning.

 

Thanks to everyone who contributed for showing God's love in action.

Shoebox Sunday - 18th Nov

There's only one week left to finish packing your shoebox and get it to a drop off point! 

We'd love it if you delivered it to our special Shoebox Sunday service at 11am and joined us at Cornwell.  We'll be finding out what happens to the shoeboxes and praying for them as they're sent off.

If you can't join us,  you can equally drop it off at St Catherine's Church or Tony's house.

http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/locate

http://youtu.be/AJg65Hb5YxY

Harvest Service

Hope you can join us for a 'pre-service continental breakfast' and our Harvest Service this Sunday.
A) From 10.30 the following will be available:

• Croissants (with butter and jam)
• Danish Pastries
• Fruit salad
• Apple juice / orange juice
• Tea / coffee

Please feel free to bring any of your own preferred breakfast ingredients, either for yourselves or to share.

Bee) There will also be an opportunity to contribute to our 'Send a Beehive' project by purchasing Caroline and Val's homemade crafts.

C) We'll also be collecting food items for the Churches In Reading Drop-In Centre. Tinned meat / vegetables and packets of sugar are usually welcome additions to their larder.

Holiday Club 2012 : On Your Marks

A small glimpse into what we got up to at St Catherine's Holiday Club 2012. This year's club has a sports theme as we had teams joining in the "Global Games". Click here to watch the "On Your Mark" video.

‘On Your Marks’ Holiday club service

May I remind you that there will be no service at Cornwell on Sunday 12th – we are having a joint ‘On Your Marks’ Holiday club service starting at 10.30 at St Catherine's. 

Hope you can make the service.

Cafe Church

This Sunday, 8th at 11.00: Cafe Church with Rev.Denis Smith - Theme: God's Family

'Cafe-style' means different things to different people - there is no blueprint - so please come along and help to shape it into a uniquely Cornwell style of 'being church'!

The Coffee, Cake and Conversation are available, as usual, from 10.30 - any help in setting up will be much appreciated. Weather permitting, we'll try and extend our hospitality to anyone in the playground, too.

Cornwell Walk and Picnic Tea - Sunday 1st July

We'd love you to join us for walk and picnic tea at Dinton Pastures Country Park, Hurst.  For directions there, see http://dintonpastures.co.uk/directions . We'll meet there at 3 pm.  This will be a family-friendly opportunity to spend time with our church family. We'll walk around the lake and share a picnic together afterwards. Contact Richard Yates if you need a lift.

Joint Pentecost Service - Sunday 27th May

Please note that there won’t be a service at Cornwell on Sunday 27^th May (Pentecost), there’ll be a joint service, 10.30am at St Catherine’s followed by a bring & share picnic lunch.  Do please come.

Parish Annual Meeting and Tea

Hope you can make it to this important meeting at St Catherine’s at 3pm on Sunday, followed by a 'bring-and-share' tea.

It's not just a 'business meeting', but an opportunity to celebrate and reflect together on how Jesus' love has made a difference as we've reached out, served and cared in our community over the last year - and to look ahead with Him at how we might be even more effective in the year ahead.

Please join with us and stay for tea afterwards. It would be good if you could bring some food to share, whatever it may be - sweet or savoury, home-made or bought - and we'll enjoy seeing how God fits all the pieces of the culinary jigsaw together! We may be pleasantly surprised.

Do let Richard know if you have any questions...or just want to confirm that you are/are not coming.

Cornwell ACM - Sunday 25th March

The Cornwell Annual Church Meeting is this Sunday, 25th and we do hope you will be able to come and join us, as we reflect on what God has been doing in and through our church over the last year and plan for the future.

The 'business' side of things will be over by 12.30 at the very latest, but if you can, please 'bring and share' a lunch so that we can enjoy fellowship together afterwards!!

Community Litter Pick - Saturday 17th March

We invite you to join us for a Community Litter Pick of the woods and footpaths in the local area.

Meet 10am at the Cornwell Centre car park. Some tools will be available but it's advisable to bring gloves. We expect to finish by 12 noon.

Our Neighbourhood Wardens will be helping and on hand to talk about how their job is to make this a better place to live in.

News and events

Good News!

Our ‘Build-a-Bog’ Christmas appeal which had a target of paying for 10 toilets in India at £41 each has raised enough for 20; double our original target!

Tony is sending a cheque for £820 off to Christian Aid, thank you to everyone who contributed.

This Sunday 27^th February Rev Denis Smith will be taking our communion service; no Sunday school but there’ll be activity sheets for the children.

On Sunday 6^th March we’ve got an afternoon walk & tea. Meet 2.30pm at Tony's house, back around 4pm for tea (bring cakes to share) if you can’t make the walk you’re welcome to join us for the tea.

On Saturday 26^th March our Springtime Litter pick, meet 10am at the Cornwell Centre where the Neighbourhood Wardens will have bags and tools for a 2 hour blitz of the local area. Coincidentally the Royal Oak opens at 12noon if we feel we deserve a drink afterwards.

Annual Church Meeting - Sunday 25th March

On Sunday 25th March there will be a brief morning service will be followed by our "Annual General Meeting".

It's an opportunity to review what God has been doing in and through Cornwell Community Church over the last year - and to consider what He might want us to do differently in the year ahead.

Pancakes - Sunday 19th February

As it's the last Sunday before Lent, we're planning a pancake-based lunch at the Cornwell Centre after the service - further details to follow.