Next term's meeting for parents and helpers will take place on Monday 8th January. Further details of St Andrew‘s Sunday School can be found on the Sunday School pages of the Vicarage Website.
Dermot Lamb, Operations Director of the charity, writes: 'Your generous donation will allow us to continue to support our three children‘s hospices in Romania and our special treatment centre in Bulgaria.'
The special cash appeal was organised this year in lieu of collecting items for use at the Children in Distress hospices because the charity‘s depot at Thirsk was at the centre of a foot and mouth hot spot and it was not possible to make the usual countrywide collection of goods this year.
The choir will also visit St Mary's, Conington, for the festival on Sunday 23rd December, also at 6.30pm. We are grateful for the regular help on Thursday evenings of singers from Willingham, but we do need more regular singers from Swavesey. >
Keith Lofts
Because the clergy need to travel from 9.30am services at other benefice churches, the 10.45am service never begins on time. The revised schedule would allow an 11.00am service to begin promptly at 11.00am each week.
If you wish to comment on this proposal, please have a word with the Vicar or write to him atjdyule@argonet.co.uk
Nearly £640 of sales and orders were taken for the various charities exhibiting and the event was a great social occasion too.
Gill Henderson
Final results from the day in terms of money raised are not yet in, but in the mean time, Wyn Oakman wishes to thank her sponsors for the £245 they contributed.
The Vicar
Alternatively you may like to join the regular monthly communion service in the Community Room at Thistle Green, Swavesey. This usually takes place on the first Monday of a month, but please see the Diary pages for details of planned dates.
This is a good opportunity for fellowship as well as for prayer. All are most welcome to participate.
The total money raised from St Andrew's in the last financial year was £449.37, an increase of £62 overall. I do thank all the box holders and those who contribute at the Christingle Service. I know our efforts are much appreciated by the Society.
The Society has issued a message about this year's Christingle appeal: ''This year the focus is on one urgent cause - the plight of young runaways. Every year 100,000 children run away from home or care to escape violence, abuse or neglect. Some are sleeping rough, frightened and alone in back alleys, graveyards and among rubbish bins. Every £150 raised could give many young runaways hot meals and warm showers as well as clean clothes. It could also provide warm gloves, toiletries and a bar of chocolate. These simple things are often the first steps in building a child‘s trust. We can then begin helping them to resolve the problems which led them to run away in the first place as well as ensure a safe place to stay.''
The Christingle Service on 2nd December raised £105.06 for the work of the Society and this will go to make Christmas brighter, happier and safer for some runaway children. Thank you.
Dorothy Gilbert
With ever busier life styles, even Christians sometimes find it difficult to make space for regular study of the Bible every day.
'Faith Comes By Hearing' has recorded the whole of the New Testament on cassette which can be listened to at home or in the car on the journey to work and help us daily to ground and grow our faith in the Scriptures.
We hope to launch a 'Faith Comes by Hearing' programme in the parishes in the new year. For further information, please contact the Vicar.