Guest speakers and Annual Parish Meeting

One of the suggestions to emerge from our recent Cornwell Annual Meeting was the desire for more guest speakers, so we're pleased to report that for the next three Sundays at Cornwell you'll be hearing from:

• St Catherine's prayer team (26th April)
• Richard Canning, with reference to the St Catherine's Neighbourhood Centre project (3rd May)
• Jessica Hall from Christian Aid, at the beginning of Christian Aid Week (10th May)

Since Denis was unable to be with us on 12th April, he'll be coming to lead Communion this Sunday, resuming the normal pattern of '2nd Sundays' on 10th May.

Also, don't forget the Annual Parochial Church Meeting; taking place at St Catherine's this Sunday at 3pm.

Community Litter Pick - Saturday 18th April.

We invite you to join us for our Spring Community Litter Pick of the woods and footpaths in the local area on Saturday 18th April.

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.

Some tools will be available but it’s advisable to bring gloves.

Meet 10am at the Cornwell Centre Car Park,  Home Croft off Clements Mead, RG31 5WJ.

Egg Rolling and Kite Flying - Easter Sunday Afternoon

In addition to our Easter Sunday morning service, we hope you can join us for another Easter Sunday tradition - Egg Rolling and Kite Flying at Lardon Chase.

As normal there are 'Best Decorated Egg' and 'Furthest Egg Roll' competitions. Hot cross buns provided !

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