Epiphany 2
Prayer for the Week
Epiphany 2
Eternal Lord,
our beginning and our end:
bring us with the whole creation
to your glory, hidden through past ages
and made known
in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Today
8.00am Holy Communion
10.00am Parish Communion
12.00noon Christening Service for Maisie Amelia Price
4.00pm Church at 4
6.00pm Churches Together in Wroughton – Service for Christian Unity
The Churches Together in Wroughton Service
For the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity takes place in Wroughton & Wichelstowe Parish Church on Sunday 19th January at 6pm, led by Revd Phill Harrison.
Diary – Week Commencing 19th January
Monday 20th January
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
9.00am Morning Prayer – Chapel Deanery School
10.00am Bible Study Group – 11 St John Road
8.00pm Mission Matters Meeting
Tuesday 21st January
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
7.30pm Pray & Bless Wroughton & Wichelstowe – Church Hall
Wednesday 22nd January
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church Hall
10.00am The Let’s Group – Committee Room,
The Deanery School
Thursday 23rd January
8.30am Morning Prayer – Church
7.30pm Choir Practice – Church
Filling Station – Paul & Hazel
Friday 24th January
8.45am Morning Prayer – Prospect Hospice
7.00pm Bellringers Practice
Saturday 25th January
10.00am Healing on the Streets – Ellendune Centre
10.00am Christening Preparation – Church
A Date for your Diary
World Day of Prayer service at 11am on Friday 6th March at St Joseph’s Church. Further details to follow.
Sunday 26th January 2020
Epiphany 3
8.00am Holy Communion
Preacher: Revd Barbara Abrey
Sidespeople: Jean Reens and Christine Wrixon
10.00am Parish Communion
Preacher: Revd Barbara Abrey
Intercessions: Diane Phillips
Reading: Acts 22: 2b-16
Reader: Gillian Pitter
Gospel: Matthew 3: 1-6
Servers: Petrina Kingsley and Gillian Pitter
Sidespeople: Alan & Kathy Gregory
4.00pm Church at 4 – Church Hall
Leader: Joan Orman
6.00pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the Month)
Our next service will be Sunday 2nd February.
Floodlighting
The Church will be floodlit on Friday 24th January by
Paula Glass in memory of Pamela Little;
On Saturday 25th January by Margaret Penfound in memory of David Penfound on his birthday.
Electoral Roll Revision 2020
We are approaching the time of our annual Electoral Roll revision. The roll is open to anyone over 16 years old who is either resident in the parish or who regularly attends our services. Being on the roll allows you to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting and, if you are not resident in the parish it gives you certain rights otherwise only given to residents. If you regularly attend our services and are not already on the roll, we would like to encourage you to join the electoral roll. If for any reason you attend our services, but do not feel able to be on the electoral roll please would you complete just page 1 and return the form so that we have your consent to hold your details so that we can keep in touch with you.
Healing on the Streets training
We shall be holding a training day for current and potential volunteers for Healing on the Streets on Saturday, 1st February from 10.00 am until 3.00 pm in the Parish Church. If you have an interest in this ministry, please come on the day and bring a packed lunch – drinks will be available. For more information, please speak to Barbara Abrey or Margaret Penfound.
Coffee and Chat – Cornerstone Cafe
Before Christmas several of us got together for a coffee and a chat. It was a very enjoyable morning and we would like to meet up again on Tuesday January 28th, 11am at The Deanery Café. Please come along and join us. Christine Wrixon
Christingle Service
We raised £953 for The Children’s Society from the Christingle Services
Defibrillator
Thanks to a kind donor, we now have a defibrillator (also known as AED) in the church for use in situations where someone is in cardiac arrest (a heart attack). Initially this is being kept on top of the safe in the vestry, where it will be accessible during services and other functions in the church. We ultimately plan to install it in the church porch, where it will be available for use by the wider community (it takes some time to get the necessary permissions…).
Church and Church Hall building work
Over the next two years we need to complete some significant building maintenance on both the church and the church hall. We’re delighted to be able to report that we recently received a donation of £40,000 towards the cost of some of this work. We are currently working with our architects to appoint a contractor to take care of the exterior and interior repairs to the church (note that these are repairs, not changes!). More details will follow in the first part of next year.
Plastic Recycling
Wiltshire Air Ambulance are collecting some plastics that the council don’t take at present. We now have a box in the church hall kitchen where you can put clean BREAD BAGS, CRISP PACKETS AND BISCUIT WRAPPERS, which will then be taken to their collection point. The best time to drop them off would be on a Sunday afternoon when the hall is open for Church at 4, or any time you are going to a meeting in the hall.
Let’s Group
Our Let’s Group has started again on a Wednesday morning, 10am in the Committee Room at the Deanery School. All are welcome to attend. Our topics for the next few weeks are as follows:-
January
22nd Let’s Chat – With Key Members of the Community
29th Let’s Pray – Light a candle, Receive a Blessing
January Green Resolution
The church changed some of the high-powered lights in the roof from low energy bulbs to LEDs at the end of 2017. This has saved us about 25% of our electricity bill, that is £260 each year since then. LEDs are available for domestic lights as well. They won’t save you that much on your electricity bill, but they will save energy and money when you fit new bulbs. The church will be continuing to do so.
CHURCH IN THE WIDER WORLD
Swindon Youth for Christ – Jan 2020
Swindon Youth for Christ works to share the Good News of Jesus with young people. Much of their work is done in the secondary schools of the town, in partnership with local churches. They lead lessons and assemblies, run lunchtime clubs, and mentor individual students who may be struggling for some reason.
They were recently able to go into a new school to present their LUSH sex and relationships course. This enables students to consider what makes healthy relationships.
- Please pray for all the connections with schools, and the opportunities this provides to work with young people.
Knitting for Mission to Seafarers
I recently sent off the last box of knitting for 2019 which brings our grand total for the year to 166 hats and 83 scarves which is a magnificent achievement. Keep those needles clicking and we’ll see if we can beat that total in 2020. Janet Henderson
This week please pray for:-
- Swindon Youth for Christ
- For the family and friends of Maisie Price as she is christened in Church this morning
- For the staff and patients at Prospect Hospice
- For all those affected by the fires in Australia
- For all emergency services
- For all those areas of the world suffering violence, war, hunger and living in fear.
- We commend to God’s care and keeping those who have died recently. We pray for all who mourn the loss of loved ones.
The Parish Office, Priors Hill, Wroughton, SN4 0RT
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am to 1.30pm
01793 812050. office@wroughton.com
Revd Phill Harrison – 01793 812301 vicar@wroughton.com
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