24th November 2024

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

The Parish Office, Priors Hill, Wroughton, SN4 0RT – 01793 812050  office@wroughton.com

Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am to 1.30pm

Revd Phill Harrison – Vicar 01793 812301 vicar@wroughton.com

Church Twitter Account – @WroughtonWichel

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Wroughton and Wichelstowe Parish Church

Invite you to

‘HERE COMES CHRISTMAS’

In the Church Hall, Priors Hill

Saturday 7th December

11.30am – 1.00pm

Games, Craft, story and food for all the family

Sorry we cannot look after unaccompanied children

No need to book – more information from

Revd. Barbara Abrey 01793 633024