Joint Service at St Catherine's - 29th December

Sunday 29th December is a joint service at St Catherine's, starting at 10:30am.  This means there will be no service at Cornwell that Sunday.

Nativity Photo - Is anything missing ?

The final photograph from this evening's Carol & Nativity service

Is anything missing ?

Cool Club - Finger Puppet Nativity

Here's our video of the Nativity story we made at Cool Club.

Click here for the full width version.

Carols by Candlelight and Nativity - Sunday 22nd December

Please join us for Carols by Candlelight and Nativity on Sunday 22nd December at 4pm. Children are invited to come dressed as a Nativity character. It is followed by seasonal refreshments.

Carol singing

You've plenty of opportunities for Carol singing coming up ...

• Tuesday 17^th 5-6pm : Churches in Tilehurst at the Triangle.

Then two sessions in the roads around our area to deliver Christmas cards and offer sweets.

• Wednesday 18^th meet 5.30pm at 49 Lamorna Crescent to visit homes in The Sadlers and Clay Close returning for refreshments,
• Thursday 19^th meet 6.30pm at 8 Highworth Way to visit homes in Highworth Way returning for refreshments.

Do please join us if you can for these two events in our local roads.
And finally, you can join members of St Catherine's

• Thursday 19^th at the Fox & Hounds City Road from 8pm.

Cool Club

Here's a short video to show what we get up to at Cool Club.

Rev Lorraine Colam - Sunday 24th November

Some of you may know that Lorraine, after 34 years of nursing has a new job.    As from 9^th December she will be a chaplain at the Royal Berkshire hospital.    As a result she and Trevor will be leaving St Catherine’s.

We are fortunate to have Lorraine with us this coming Sunday 24^th November so do join us if you can.

Tony

Shoebox Sunday - results

Thanks to everyone for the shoeboxes - 114 at last count.

Shoebox Sunday - November 17th.

Don't forget - bring your shoeboxes to our special Shoebox Sunday service.  And bring your friends as well.  We'll be watching videos explaining where the shoeboxes go, as well as seeing the joy on the faces of children opening their boxes.

Community Litter Pick - Saturday 16th November

A reminder that on Saturday 16th November it is our Autumn Community Litter Pick from 10.00 to 11.30am. As usual we will be helped by our Neighbourhood Wardens. Meet 10.00am at the Cornwell Centre, tools provided but advisable to wear gloves.

Harvest Service - Sunday 6th October

A reminder that Sunday 6th October is our Harvest Service.  Also there's YG+ , so our secondary school aged young people should start gathering at the Cornwell Centre at 10:30 for drinks & cake.

 

After the service there is a Harvest lunch with jacket potatoes and fillings.  The suggested donation to cover costs is £2.00 for adults and young people of secondary school age, and £1.00 for primary school aged children.  Please contact Caroline if you are coming to help her plan catering.

 

There will also be a "Bring and Buy Produce Sale".  Please bring along some of your summer produce :- vegetables / fruit / chutney / jam etc.  We'll hope you can buy something for £1, which will go towards our Send a Stove fundraising project.

Joint Service at St. Catherine's - Sunday 29th September

A reminder that Sunday 29^th September is a 5^th Sunday - so that means it's a joint service with ‘Kidz Klub’.  This time around it's at St Catherine’s starting at 10.30 am.  That means there's no service at Cornwell that day.

'Moving up' service - Sunday 22nd September

Just a note to let you know that we're having a special 'Moving up' service at Cornwell on Sunday 22nd September to which we invite our Youth Group and especially those moving up from GLuG to Youth Group having just started secondary school.
 

We're inviting our young guests and their families to arrive at the usual time of 10.30 for cake & drinks with the service starting at 11.00 am.

Communion Sundays

Just a short note to let people know that

• Communion is now moving it's "normal" Sunday from the 4th Sunday to the 2nd Sunday of the month.
• There'll be a Sunday School on (nearly) every Sunday in the month, regardless of whether there's Communion or not.

In other words, next Sunday - 8th - will have both a Communion (with Rev Denis Smith) and also a Sunday School.

Starship Discovery Holiday Club Video

If you missed the fun, and also missed the showing of the video at our services, here's a glimpse of the fun we all had at Starship Discovery.

  

or click here.

Starship Discovery Holiday Club Countdown Joint Service - Sunday August 11th

Don't forget, it's a special Holiday Club joint service at St Catherine's Church this coming Sunday August 11th, starting at 10:30 am. 

It's a 'Countdown' service where we look forward to our 'Starship Discovery' holiday club which takes place August Monday 12th - Friday 16th.

Hope to see you there !

The Never Rehearsed Puppet Company

While our Sunday Services are (in)famous for the "Never Rehearsed Drama Group", this morning our younger members introduced us to the "The Never Rehearsed Puppet Company" as they re-told the story of the Good Samaritan.  Here's a picture to give you a little idea.

Joint Sunday Service & Kidz Klub

This coming Sunday (June 30th) is a joint service at Cornwell Community Church.  It includes Kids Klub.  The fun starts at 10:30am.

Bring your Dad to Church day - June 16th

Book the date in your diary!

An opportunity for the whole family to spend quality time together - playing games*, competing, eating bacon baps for brunch and learning a bit about believing.
*e.g. : Scalextric, table football, Jenga, archery...

Whose dad is the best baker of cakes / muffins or biscuits?   Dads - bring along some of your home baking for judging!

Unlike many other Fathers' Day activities...

• There's no need to book a table
• there's no (extra) charge for parties
• no VAT to pay
• It's free!

 What's not to enjoy??

Come along and join in :-)

Joint Sunday Service & Kidz Church

Don't forget that this Sunday's Service (May 12th) will be a 10.30 am joint service at St. Catherine's with Kidz Church in the hall.

The Service will reflect the theme of the "The Power of Pentecost" Conference.

The Power of Pentecost with Trevor & Sharon Baker from Revival Fires, Dudley.

These International Christian Speakers are here at St. Catherine's next weekend, May 10th and 11th.

The Evening Celebrations are free.  Friday's is from 8 - 10 pm and Saturday’s from 7.30 – 9.30 pm. The conference on Saturday May 11th is from 10 am -4.30 pm (£12 per person. Bring a packed lunch, drinks available.) See brochure or for further information contact Rev. Denis Smith.

The Sunday Service on May 12th will be a 10.30 am joint service at St. Catherine's with young people's activities in the hall. The Service will reflect the theme of the Conference.

Litter Pick

Weather dry but cold for our Spring Litter pick, on Saturday, the usual band of helpers with the usual pile of dumped rubbish!

Saturday 27th April - Community Litter Pick

Our March litter pick was snowed off, but we have been able to re-arrange with the Neighbourhood Wardens.

We hope you can join us on Saturday 27th April, 10am to 12noon for a community litter pick of the woods and footpaths in the local area.

We start at the Cornwell Centre Car Park.  Some tools will be available but it's advisable to bring gloves.

Happy Easter everyone ...

Here's the video we saw at Church this morning ...



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Happy Easter everyone !

Christ is Risen !
He is Risen indeed !
Alleluia !

Good Friday All Age Service

We'd like to invite you to a special Good Friday service this coming Friday 29th at St Catherine's, starting at 10:30am.  We'll be using some of our mid week Children's Clubs material to think about why it's a "Good" Friday.

Whether you've been to any of our Children's Clubs or not, we'd love you and the whole family to come along to our All Age Good Friday service.

Bring a friend - the more the merrier!

Hoping to see you soon,
   

Community Litter Pick

Blizzard conditions in Tilehurst today so regret we’ve had to cancel the Litter Pick which was due to start at 10am.

Tony Bartlett

Annual Meeting - Sunday 17th March

Please join with our church family on this coming Sunday 17th March for our Annual Meeting. 

The 11.00 service will be shorter than usual, allowing us to spend time reflecting on:

• how God has been at work, in us and through us, over the last year, and ...
• what He might be wanting to do, in us and through us, in the year ahead.

This should give us all an opportunity to be thankful to God, to encourage one another, and to allow ourselves to be open to His call to us.

From 12.30-ish we'll be providing lunch (soup, rolls and something 'cheesy'). You don't need to bring anything, but a donation to Christian Aid would be very welcome - maybe what you would have spent on a 'normal' lunch at home?

Super Soup Lunch - Sunday 17th March

Alongside of the meeting on 17th March there will be a soup lunch in aid of Christian Aid. Church will provide soup with bread rolls for lunch (there will be a cheese alternative for non soup eaters).

Donations given on the day will go to Christian Aid. It would be lovely if you could join us – please inform Caroline O'Sullivan of numbers in time for her to make the necessary purchases of food.

Many thanks

Spring Community Litter Pick - Saturday 23rd March

We’ve booked the Neighbourhood Wardens for our Spring Community Litter Pick, 10am – 12noon from the Cornwell Centre on Saturday 23^rd March.

Please make a note of the date and join us if you can.

Pancake lunch - Sunday 10th Feb

Our "pre-Lenten pancake lunch" will be on Sunday 10th Feb after the service.

We will provide:
* Plain pancakes, but if you want to bring some of your own home-made ones they'll be very welcome
* Fillings for sweet pancakes (lemon juice, sugar, golden syrup and some chocolaty stuff)
But...
* Please bring your own savoury fillings, e.g. ham and cheese, coronation chicken, ratatouille or anything else - be inventive! Could you let us know what you will be bringing - and if any of you are bringing a salad instead of a savoury filling. Thank you.

Friends and family are very welcome - however...
to ensure we 're catering for the right sort of numbers it would be helpful if you could let Richard and Katrina know by Friday 8th to indicate if you're coming... and how many of you there are likely to be!