Easter at Cornwell

There are a number of events at Cornwell and in the wider parish to help you worship & celebrate this Easter.

Sunday 29th March : Palm Sunday
10:30am : A 'Messy Together' joint service at St Catherines.  No service at Cornwell that day.

Friday 3rd April : Good Friday
10:30am : An All Age exploration of the Easter Story through Craft, Drama, Songs & Prayers. At St Catherines
12 Noon : Churches Together in Tilehurst Act of Witness at the Tilehurst Triangle.

Sunday 5th April : Easter Sunday
11:00am : Service at Cornwell Community Church.  Refreshments from 10:30am.  With Sunday School.
3:00 pm : Egg Rolling and Kite Flying at Lardon Chase.  Furthest Egg Roll and Best Decorated Egg competitions.  Hot Cross Buns provided.

Topic Slides from ACM March 8th

At our Annual Church Meeting on March 8th, we considered six topics :-

• Mission 
• Children & Youth Work
• Finance
• Witness in the community
• How to grow in faith
• How to grow our congregation

For most of these topics, slides were shown.  While they were not originally created to be shown on-line, we have done our best to assemble them here :- http://bit.ly/1Foemkm

Easter Eggs for Readifood (by 22nd March please)

We wanted to circulate wider a great idea from Caroline ...

Dear All,

When praying last week, it came to me that many of the families that Readifood help, the children wouldn’t receive any Easter eggs.  So we ought to do something about it (they did something similar last year to ensure that children received an Advent calendar).

I've been in touch with Readifood and they would be delighted to receive Easter eggs.  So when you’re doing your shopping this week, perhaps you could take advantage of the special offers and get one for a child who wouldn’t receive one otherwise.  Readifood need to receive them by Friday 27 March, so ideally we need to bring them to church this Sunday 22 March.  Evelyn and Tony will drop them off when they take down our regular donations during the week.

More food for thought – the demand for food parcels increases during school holidays as lots of the families who receive help from Readifood have children who would normally receive free school meals.

Thank you
          Caroline

Family Gathering : Sunday 8th March.

‘A church is not something you go to,

it’s a family you belong to’

You are warmly invited to a family gathering on Sunday 8th March at 11.00 am (refreshments as usual from 10,30 am).

It’s an opportunity to share in what God has done for us over the past year and then to share you views, input and ideas on the next year’s journey with God.

Or to put it another way it’ll be a combination of service and AGM

Please let a member of Church Leadership know if you can attend or email info@cornwellcommunitychurch.org.uk

Lent Courses

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday - 18th February. There’s a service at 8pm at St Catherine’s, to mark the beginning of Lent.

Rather than giving up something like chocolate up for Lent, many people give time instead, opting to join a Lent study group or read a religious book.

Here are details of the Lent courses being run by the various churches in the area and all welcome participants so that there’s a good mix of people from different churches.

Next few Sundays at Cornwell

Here's a few dates for your diary of what's happening over next few Sundays at Cornwell ...

Sunday 8th February : Communion with Guest speaker

Sunday 15th February : Pancakes available from 10:30am. (Shrove Tuesday is Feb 17th)

Sunday 8th March : Communion followed by AGM with Coffee & Cakes.

Sunday 15th March : Mothering Sunday

Sunday 29th March : A 5th Sunday "Messy Together" Joint service for Palm Sunday at St Catherine's. No service at Cornwell.

Sunday 5th April : Easter Sunday,

Cool Club restarts Tuesday 13th January

Cool Club, our group for children aged 5 - 7 years, is moving to St Catherine's Hall. It re-starts Tuesday 13th.   

Doors open 4:15pm for a 4:30 start.