A year in a day - 24 hours of worship at Portsmouth Cathedral

Wendy Kennedy has asked me to draw your attention to a very special event at the Cathedral
this Friday and Saturday - 24 hours of worship covering the whole liturgical year in a day in many different worship styles.

The website link is: 24_hours_of_worship
 
and a full programme is here:  Programme.pdf

This promises to be a great occasion and the young guns in the diocese who have put all this together would really appreciate your interest and support.

CHARITABLE GIVING

A huge thank you to all who opened their homes and gardens and provided refreshments to raise much needed funds for our monthly charity appeals. What a great year 2010 has already been. And there is still a coffee morning and “Roast and Rolls” to look forward to in the next couple of months.

After 3 years Ruth Smith is stepping down from her role as Charitable Giving Organiser and so a vacancy arises for this position. Could YOU be the person who could “fit the bill”? No experience needed, no particular skills just a desire to help your church and those who live without all the things we take for granted.

If you have an hour or two a month to spare and a will to help others please come forward quickly as we hold a meeting late October/early November to select the charities we will support in 2011. Please contact Carol at the Parish Office.

New carpet at Blendworth

As part of the refurbishment of the South Aisle, the church is to receive a new carpet. Will you help us raise the money by buying some of the vacant squares, shown on our chart, in church. Each square is worth £6.50 – and please use the yellow gift aid envelopes where appropriate. Working together we can join up the squares and re-carpet the church.
Enquiries to Carol or Marion Williams via the office, tel. 9259 7023

Bible Study/Discussion Group

This will take place on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.
the next meeting will be on 28th October.
Please arrive at 7.30pm (not before) when each meeting will begin with coffee. Meetings will finish at about 9.00pm.

Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday this year falls on 14th November. The Service of Remembrance in Horndean Square is at 10.45am and is followed by a shared Eucharist with the Methodist Congregation in Blendworth Church Centre at 11.30am. The collection at this service will be for The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

NB – No 11.00am Service at Blendworth this Sunday and the Blendworth Family Service moves to Sunday 21st November.

Service for the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed – (All Souls’ Service)

Sunday 31st October at Holy Trinity Blendworth at 3.00pm
All are warmly invited to attend this service in memory of departed loved ones. Lists are available in all the churches for you to add the names of those who you wish to be remembered.
Please stay for a chat and refreshments after the service.