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Joint Holiday Club Service at St Catherine's - Sunday 7th August
Come down to the beach and join us at St Catherine's-By-The-Sea.
Bring the whole family to get a taste of what our children will be enjoying during the week ahead.
There will be no service at the Cornwell Centre that morning.
Joint Service at Cornwell - Sunday 17th at 10:30am
Summer '16 Cornwell Community Newsletter
The Summer '16 Cornwell Community Newsletter, which has been delivered to all the homes in our area, is also available online here.
Seaside Rock Holiday Club
This year's Summer Holiday Club is "Seaside Rock". It takes place at St Catherine's Church during the week Sunday 7th - Friday 12th August.
It is set at the seaside where we hope to enjoy all the excitement of the beach with five fun-filled days of games, craft, music, drama, fun and laughter. We’ll also hear through Gospel stories, how Peter (the Seaside Rock) took up the challenge to follow Jesus.
Registration is now open. See the magazine, our web site, or contact us here for more details.
Fathers Day - Sunday 19th June
Sunday 19th June is a special event for Fathers’ Day – Bring your Dad; Bacon butties from 10.30 then games with a short taster of our church service.
Pentecost Joint Service at St Catherine's - 15th May
We’re celebrating Pentecost together, a chance also to see and experience St Catherine's building project and café.
£300 raised for Send-a-Cow
Cornwell Charity Crafts want to send out a big thank you to everyone who came or contributed to their Send-a Cow House Party. Over 30 people came and they were overwhelmed by your generosity.
Together we raised £300 which will go to Send-a-Cow to provide sheep & goats in Africa.
Send-a-Cow House Party - 2nd May
Please make a date in your diary to join us for a Send a Cow Party on Friday 6th May, 2pm to 9pm at 16 Felton Way, Tilehurst.
Please come and join us to raise money for the charity Send a Cow, which sends farming and educational resources to Africa.
Tea, Coffee, Cakes & other refreshments will be available. We will collect donations for the charity.
Cornwell Charity Crafts will have jewellery and other handmade gifts on sale. All profits go to Send a Cow.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting - 24th April.
The parish Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) is Sunday 24th April at 3.00 pm in St Catherine’s Hall. As the name suggests, this is the meeting for the whole parish.
The minutes of last year’s meeting are contained in the big ‘Annual Report and Financial Statements’ booklet. Please make sure that before coming to the APCM you have a copy and have read it together with the Green "2015 - a review" booklet that was included with this month’s RG31 magazine.
Spare copies of both these are available at both churches.
The minutes of last year’s meeting are contained in the big ‘Annual Report and Financial Statements’ booklet. Please make sure that before coming to the APCM you have a copy and have read it together with the Green "2015 - a review" booklet that was included with this month’s RG31 magazine.
Spare copies of both these are available at both churches.
Cornwell service & Annual meeting this Sunday 10th April
Dear all,
It’s in the magazine but I just wanted to flag up that this Sunday it’s our ‘AGM’. If you’ve been to one before you’ll know that whilst there is a very small amount of ‘business’ that has to be done and in the context of a service, it’ll be very informal; chatting around tables to find out how we can better fulfil our mission as God’s people. Each year we review church life and get ideas for the future with input from everyone, so discussions will include children.
This year there’ll be 5 topics: Inviting others to church, Creative Worship, Churches Working Together, Children & Youth, Supporting others doing God’s work elsewhere. For each topic we’ll be considering “What would I like to see?” and “What could I do?”
We do hope you can come.
Tony (on behalf of the Cornwell Leadership Team)
AND
We’re still open to donations for our new projector but need to know how much we can spend, so if you haven’t given and would like to, please do so on Sunday or contact me. Thank you!
Egg Rolling and Kite Flying - Easter Sunday Afternoon
You are invited to join us for our traditional Egg Rolling and Kite Flying at Lardon Chase (Streatley Hill) on Easter Sunday afternoon (27th March) from 3:00.There are competitions for the Furthest Egg Roll and Best Decorated Egg.
Hot Cross buns are provided. Bring your own Drinks and Snacks.
Easter Services
The following services take place in the Parish over Easter
Maundy Thursday 24th March
8.00 pm : Last Supper - St Catherine’s Hall
Good Friday 25th March
10.30 am : Good Friday All Age Event - St Catherine’s Hall
11.40 am : Walk of Witness to Tilehurst Triangle for 12noon event there
2.00 pm : Last Hour - St Catherine’s Hall
Easter Sunday 27th March
8.00 am : Holy Communion - St Catherine
9.30 am : Holy Communion - St Catherine’s Hall
11.00 am : All Age Service - Cornwell
Maundy Thursday 24th March
8.00 pm : Last Supper - St Catherine’s Hall
Good Friday 25th March
10.30 am : Good Friday All Age Event - St Catherine’s Hall
11.40 am : Walk of Witness to Tilehurst Triangle for 12noon event there
2.00 pm : Last Hour - St Catherine’s Hall
Easter Sunday 27th March
8.00 am : Holy Communion - St Catherine
9.30 am : Holy Communion - St Catherine’s Hall
11.00 am : All Age Service - Cornwell
Palm Sunday - 20th March
In the afternoon please join us for one of our regular walk/tea events. Meet 2.30pm at Tony's home for a walk of about 3 miles, returning around 4pm for tea (bring cake to share). The walk is not compulsory, you can just join us for tea at 4pm!
Charity food collection
From now until Harvest the food donations that we collect at church will go to Readifood
http://www.fcg.org.uk/readifood/readifood.htm
They say: "ReadiFood currently deliver just around 120 Emergency Food Parcels every week to families and individuals across the greater Reading area (Food parcels are only given to clients referred to us by local agencies)"
And they say: "We are currently very short of Canned Meat, Tins of Meat Readimeals, Canned Fish. Amongst other foods that we always need are:- Cereals, Biscuits, Tea bags (40 or 80 packs), Coffee (Instant), Tinned Food, Steamed Puddings, Meat pies, Meat, Tuna, Pasta sauces, Long Life Milk, Shower Gel, Toothpaste, Soap, Baby Food, Nappies."
Churches have been asked to donate Easter Eggs to put in Easter food parcels but they need to be with Readifood by next week so we’ll need to have them this Sunday 13th.
http://www.fcg.org.uk/readifood/readifood.htm
They say: "ReadiFood currently deliver just around 120 Emergency Food Parcels every week to families and individuals across the greater Reading area (Food parcels are only given to clients referred to us by local agencies)"
And they say: "We are currently very short of Canned Meat, Tins of Meat Readimeals, Canned Fish. Amongst other foods that we always need are:- Cereals, Biscuits, Tea bags (40 or 80 packs), Coffee (Instant), Tinned Food, Steamed Puddings, Meat pies, Meat, Tuna, Pasta sauces, Long Life Milk, Shower Gel, Toothpaste, Soap, Baby Food, Nappies."
Churches have been asked to donate Easter Eggs to put in Easter food parcels but they need to be with Readifood by next week so we’ll need to have them this Sunday 13th.
Forthcoming Events in March
Sunday 20th March
One of our regular walk/tea events. Meet 2.30pm at our home for a walk of about 3 miles returning around 4pm for tea (bring cake to share) walk not compulsory, just join us for tea at 4pm!
Sunday 27th March (Easter Day)
An annual event, Egg rolling & Kite flying from 3pm at Lardon Chase Streatley, bring drinks & snacks if you want; we’ll provide Hot Cross Buns. Prizes for best decorated eggs and farthest egg rolls.
Also
The communion service in March will be on the 3rd Sunday, 20th March, and not the usual 2nd Sunday
One of our regular walk/tea events. Meet 2.30pm at our home for a walk of about 3 miles returning around 4pm for tea (bring cake to share) walk not compulsory, just join us for tea at 4pm!
Sunday 27th March (Easter Day)
An annual event, Egg rolling & Kite flying from 3pm at Lardon Chase Streatley, bring drinks & snacks if you want; we’ll provide Hot Cross Buns. Prizes for best decorated eggs and farthest egg rolls.
Also
The communion service in March will be on the 3rd Sunday, 20th March, and not the usual 2nd Sunday
'Clean for the Queen' litter pick - Saturday 5th March
Saturday 5th March, 10-11.30am from the Cornwell Centre. Our regular spring clean-up coincides and is registered with 'Clean for the Queen'. This national event is to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday. Come along to help and meet our Neighbourhood Wardens.
Tony Bartlett
Pre-service pancakes at Cornwell this Sunday (7th Feb)
As it's the last Sunday before Lent, we'll be serving pancakes before the service.
The basic (and, arguably, best?!) toppings of lemon juice and sugar will be provided and there's a promise of butterscotch sauce and bananas too, but if you'd like something different please bring your own sweet or savoury topping/filling. There will be some cakes for anyone who doesn't like pancakes and for post-service refreshments.
The basic (and, arguably, best?!) toppings of lemon juice and sugar will be provided and there's a promise of butterscotch sauce and bananas too, but if you'd like something different please bring your own sweet or savoury topping/filling. There will be some cakes for anyone who doesn't like pancakes and for post-service refreshments.
Tony
Vision 2020
Over 60 from Cornwell and St Catherine’s gathered for 'vision 2020' at Birch Copse school. If everyone actions even a few of their small ideas then big things can happen. See pages 20-21 in the parish magazine, it has to be 'me' & not 'someone else'
Cornwell Charity Crafts
Another successful year for Cornwell Charity Crafts and our thanks go to Caroline, Val and their helpers for the making, setting up and selling of all the hand-made goods. Their profits went to our annual charity - this year Send-a-Cow.
In addition to the money they raised, church members contributed to one Christmas card per family and donated the money saved. We then added a contribution from our Missions fund to make a total of £1,020, enough to buy 34 educational packs at £30 each.
But it gets better, under government match funding Send-a-Cow were able to double our donation - so that’s 68 Educational packs!
The packs support the charity’s training programmes in schools, where children are taught about the need for healthy and nutritious food, how to grow their own fruit and veg on a school plot, and the benefits of working together.
Schoolchildren who have enough to eat are better able to concentrate on their lessons and are more likely to have a positive future.
In addition to the money they raised, church members contributed to one Christmas card per family and donated the money saved. We then added a contribution from our Missions fund to make a total of £1,020, enough to buy 34 educational packs at £30 each.
But it gets better, under government match funding Send-a-Cow were able to double our donation - so that’s 68 Educational packs!
The packs support the charity’s training programmes in schools, where children are taught about the need for healthy and nutritious food, how to grow their own fruit and veg on a school plot, and the benefits of working together.
Schoolchildren who have enough to eat are better able to concentrate on their lessons and are more likely to have a positive future.
New Songs CD
During refreshments we play a CD in the background consisting of new songs we're considering introducing as part of our worship.
As was mentioned during this mornings service, a new CD of 16 songs was introduced today. You can hear those songs here.
If you are interested in checking out the songs on last years CD, you can find them here.
You'll quickly realise that only a few of these songs have become part of our repertoire. Are there any you think we really should have introduced ?
As was mentioned during this mornings service, a new CD of 16 songs was introduced today. You can hear those songs here.
If you are interested in checking out the songs on last years CD, you can find them here.
You'll quickly realise that only a few of these songs have become part of our repertoire. Are there any you think we really should have introduced ?
Vision 2020 - Sunday January 31st
It's being run in Birch Copse school from 10am to 3pm.
The time will be a mixture of worship, discussion, reflection and prayer along with an indoor picnic.
The adult stream will be run by Jane Meyers and there is a young persons stream run by Yvonne Morris.
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