Christ the King
TODAY
8.00am MORNING PRAYER in Church
10.00am HOLY COMMUNION in Church and on YouTube
NEXT WEEK
Monday 25th November – 7.00 pm PCC Meeting – Church Hall
Tuesday 26th November – 9.00 am Morning Prayer – Church
Wednesday 27th November – 10.30 am Healing Team Meeting – Vicarage
Thursday 28th November – 9.00 am Morning Prayer – Church
SUNDAY 1st DECEMBER 2024
Advent 1
8.00am HOLY COMMUNION in Church
Preacher: Tracy Mason
Reading: Genesis 18. 1-15
Sidespersons: Alan & Christine Wrixon
10.00am HOLY COMMUNION in Church and on YouTube
Preacher: Tracy Mason
Intercessor: Marion Colton
Reading: Genesis 18. 1-15
Reader: Veronica Garside
Altar servers: Jean Ford and Petrina Kingsley
Sidespersons: Rose Humphries and Pat Herring
6.00pm EVENSONG in Church and on YouTube
Preacher: Mark Tubey
Intercessor: John Henderson
Reading: Joel 3. 9-21
Reader: Janet Henderson
Sidespersons: Tony & Julia Edmonds
Live streaming the 10am service
The 10am service will be live streamed on You Tube. Please visit our YouTube Channel on https://www.youtube.com/@WroughtonWichelstoweParChurch (or search for Wroughton and Wichelstowe Parish church) and press the ‘subscribe’ button.
Small Groups
If you would like to join a small group, please contact the leaders of the groups below and find out where there is space. We would love to have everyone involved in a small group.
| 22 Kellsboro Avenue | Mondays 10am-11.30 | Lillian Wicks & Louise Bessent |
| 12 Artis Avenue | Tuesdays at 7.30pm | Carolyn Kirk |
| Church Hall | Alternate Tuesday evenings | Nick & Joan Orman next mtg 3rd Dec – During Advent we will meet weekly. |
| The Vicarage | Wednesday evenings during term time. | Karen Harrison |
| Church Hall | Saturday men’s breakfast | Mike Mason |
‘Sunday Club’ dates
Our Sunday morning group for primary school aged children takes place in the Vicarage during the 10am service, usually on the 1st and 3rd Sundays. Future dates are:
Date Adults – lead/support Date Adults – lead/support
1/12 Joan / Helen 2/3 Phill / Karen F
15/12 Karen H / Lynn 16/3 Barbara / Carolyn
5/1 Karen H / Miriam 6/4 Karen H / Lynn
19/1 Tracy / Beth 20/4 Easter Sunday – No session
2/2 Hannah / Holly
16/2 Joan / Helena T
Christmas reflections
This year we’re recommending the book ‘Women of the Nativity – An Advent and Christmas journey in nine stories’ by Paula Gooder. Each story is seven or eight pages long and is a piece of creative writing, backed by Paula Gooder’s work as a biblical scholar. We hope that they might help us to see the very familiar stories of Christmas through fresh eyes, perhaps noticing things that we hadn’t spotted before. Each one is accompanied by some questions for reflection or discussion and several of our small groups will using these. The stories will also be covered by our Sunday morning readings, so they will complement the messages from our preachers. The book is available for £10 from Church House Publishing (www.chpublishing.co.uk) and all good online bookshops. If online shopping isn’t your thing and you’d like us to order a copy on your behalf, then please speak to Janet in the church office.
Note for PCC members – change of meeting time
Please can PCC members note that the PCC meeting on Monday 25th November will start at 7pm in the Church Hall.
Healing team members meeting
There will be a healing team members meeting on Wednesday 27th November at 10.30am at the vicarage.
Here comes Christmas
We will be running an activity morning on Saturday 7th December from 11.30am to 1pm in the Church Hall. If you would like to help there are lists at the crossing to sign up as a helper, or to provide food. Helpers will just need to come along and chat to our visitors. Details from Barbara
Wildflowers of Wroughton – Calendars 2025
Following the success of last year’s calendar, 2025 contains twelve new colour photographs of flowers from around the parish – including four orchids.
Available as a Wall Calendar £9.00
Desk Calender £7.00
Produced by Wroughton Monthly’s wildlife writer Boz.
They can be bought at the Parish Church, Country Market or directly from Dr Keith Hooper.
07884 108434 Home delivery available.
The Filling Station – Sandwiches, Thursday 28th November
Our church will be supplying sandwiches etc. for the homeless via the Filling Station on Thursday, 28th November.
If you would be willing to prepare a loaf of sandwiches or supply something else, please add your name to the signup sheet on the church chest and take a reminder card. Please note that the food needs to be taken to 11 Blenheim Road (Alan and Kathy Gregory’s).
French Concert
I am pleased to report that last Sunday’s concert in aid of Prospect raised £656. Many thanks to those who attended and those who helped on the night. John Henderson
TearFund
Thank you to everyone who came and helped at the quiz last Saturday we raised £480.00 for Tearfund.
Church Flower Guild
Are you interested in getting involved in arranging the Church flowers?
We are looking for more volunteers to help on a monthly basis. We are a friendly group and you would be working within a team. If you are interested please contact Margaret Hurst on 01793 814290.
Knitting for Charity
I recently sent 30 hats and 4 scarves to The Mission to Seafarers and received a lovely email saying how much they appreciated them.
This week I have two more blankets washed and with their butterflies attached to take to GWH. The light coloured one was made entirely by one of you great knitters and the blue one has been assembled by me from donated squares. If anyone would like to join squares together to make a blanket please let me know.
Thank you to all our knitters. Please keep knitting hats and scarves (patterns in the box at church) and 6inch squares in Double Knitting wool. Janet Henderson 525856.
Floodlighting
The Church will be floodlit on Monday 25th November by James Beech in memory of Eileen Beech.
Funerals
We commend to God’s care and keeping those who have died, Stephanie Priest, Susan Barrett and
Elizabeth Boulton. We pray for all those who mourn the loss of a loved one.
Dear friends,
In my former national role as one of the bishops leading the Church of England’s safeguarding development, I became aware of the lengthy—and, as we now see, thorough—investigation by Keith Makin into the horrific abuse perpetrated by John Smyth.
The Makin report makes devastating reading, and I am deeply perturbed by the extensive abuse of children and young people, as well as the fact that the abuse was known to some over many years. I acknowledge with profound shame that the Church harboured this abuser and that, once the abuse became known, bishops failed to act to prevent further appalling harm. I apologise to those who have suffered and continue to suffer, and I remain committed to addressing these issues.
This is why we must all remain dedicated to the positive changes made in the Diocese of Bristol, especially at the parish level, where volunteers have worked tirelessly to foster the cultural changes needed to make our churches safer, prevent harm, and support those impacted by abuse. This vital, transformative work—led by the Parish Safeguarding Officers, churchwardens and many other dedicated volunteers across our parish communities—has been rigorously tested and commended in the recent independent audit.
For my part, I will continue working to ensure that anyone experiencing abuse feels safe to come forward, knowing they will be believed, supported, and that their concerns will be acted upon.
Yours in Christ,
The Rt Revd Vivienne Faull
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